Trump says he wants to fix our divisions. But he may gut an institution that does exactly that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

At his news conference last week, President Trump vowed that he would do everything within his power to fix the divisions in our country.

Few institutions on our shores serve to connect red and blue; poor and rich; black, brown and white; secular and religious; and urban, rural and coastal communities. Those institutions that do provide connective tissue ought to be given more resources.

One such institution is the National Endowment for the Humanities. Yet the president’s budget is expected to propose zeroing out the NEH budget. At approximately $150 million a year, that budget is already a minuscule portion of federal expenditures.

The NEH has consistently funded digitization of the papers of our founding era and leading statesmen and women, making our shared inheritance available to everyone. We have digital editions of the papers of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and of the 18th-century War Department, John Jay, Dolley Madison, Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt thanks to the NEH. With support from the endowment, U.S. newspapers have been digitized from the founding era through the early 20th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-he-wants-to-fix-our-divisions-but-may-gut-an-institution-that-does-that-already/2017/02/22/b8b3e9c4-f92b-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.7296da048a93&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[Lanius]

1. Conservatives have been after the NEH (and the NEA) for decades

Mainly because conservatives hate art and writings that make people think and challenge authority.

[RKP5637]

2. This person trump is a sadist, seriously. All of the crap he does is done to inflict pain and

suffering, over and over again. He is dangerous to everyone, including the damn fools that he used to vote him into office.