Missouri House Republicans Vote To Defund Libraries

[okfine]

State budgets are extremely stressed and they need to look for ways they can spend the money more efficiently to serve the people. Spending millions to build and maintain a library full of dusty books is not efficient spending.

Dumbing down. Go figure.

 

[candycorn]

Do people go to libraries any more?

Yes.

 

[1srelluc]

Dammit. Leave libraries alone. They don't cost much, relatively speaking, and provide huge resources to every community.

Not when they remove offensive (to them) resources such as the Civil War history of the community. In my AO they even removed the many volumes of Virginia Regimental Histories and other research materials. There's not even a CW section now.

Libraries have turned into leftist run propaganda centers now, even in red areas because the right-leaning were asleep at the switch because we really did not want to mess with them.

I took the time yesterday for a shallow dive into who runs our local library......All of them are Yankee transplants.

 

[Clipper]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

Saudi Arabia of the west right around the corner for us.

 

[LeftofLeft]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

Oh no. Where are all of the homeless going to go to see free porn?

 

[okfine]

Instead of using libraries as an education gateway, MO decides to outdo FL. Don't burn those books, just burn down the building.

 

[Lesh]

Instead of using libraries as an education gateway, MO decides to outdo FL. Don't burn those books, just burn down the building.

How unAmerican can they get?

 

[Clipper]

Not when they remove offensive (to them) resources such as the Civil War history of the community. In my AO they even removed the many volumes of Virginia Regimental Histories and other research materials. There's not even a CW section now.

Libraries have turned into leftist run propaganda centers now, even in red areas because the right-leaning were asleep at the switch because we really did not want to mess with them.

I took the time yesterday for a shallow dive into who runs our local library......All of them are Yankee transplants.

Gee, who's surprised that one of you right wing goons would blame "leftists" for an act by a crew of radical right wing fascists.

You retards get dumber by the minute.

 

[Clipper]

Oh no. Where are all of the homeless going to go to see free porn?

How about your place?

 

[MarathonMike]

Yes.

And what do you do there?

 

[LeftofLeft]

How about your place?

What are the demographics of people going to the library? Everyone has phones. Knowledge is everywhere.

 

[candycorn]

And what do you do there?

When I want a change of scenery, I'll go to the library with my laptop sometimes.

I'm a huge fan of books on CD as I drive tens of thousands of miles a year...I check them out and then listen to them in the car as I drive down to Tucson, out to Vegas and back home to Texas. It makes much more sense to check it out than to buy it. When you're looking at the stacks, you can see other books written by the same author. The section isn't big enough to be sorted by subject (audio books are usually only in alphabetical order by author). So you are apt to find other books by Nora Roberts, JD Robb, Sue Grafton, etc...

I've also found several CD's of musicians that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

Have you ever been to a library?

 

[MarathonMike]

When I want a change of scenery, I'll go to the library with my laptop sometimes.

I'm a huge fan of books on CD as I drive tens of thousands of miles a year...I check them out and then listen to them in the car as I drive down to Tucson, out to Vegas and back home to Texas. It makes much more sense to check it out than to buy it. When you're looking at the stacks, you can see other books written by the same author. The section isn't big enough to be sorted by subject (audio books are usually only in alphabetical order by author). So you are apt to find other books by Nora Roberts, JD Robb, Sue Grafton, etc...

I've also found several CD's of musicians that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

Have you ever been to a library?

Cool. But why do you need a giant building and all the costs associated with it to provide free CDs to people? I haven't been to a library in about 30 years other than a financial seminar a few years ago that was at the local library. When I was in college, I was at the library a lot. Then the internet happened.

 

[lennypartiv]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

I got no problem with shutting down libraries run by liberal librarians.

 

[okfine]

What are the demographics of people going to the library? Everyone has phones. Knowledge is everywhere.

Many that go to libraries do not have internet access. Ever been to a children's story hour?
How about when the library rents space for exercise classes or speaking and club events. How about teaching illiterates to read or teaching those who want to learn English?

 

[Orangecat]

Missouri House Republicans Vote To Defund Libraries​

Good. They should be funded by user fees, not taxes.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

Okay boomer... There's this thing called the internet. It's got all the books.

Americans know what democrats are using libraries for.

MTG is RIGHT!!!

 

[Orangecat]

Ever been to a children's story hour?

Outrage grows as drag queen exposes himself to children during “Stories Together” event at library

 

[okfine]

Good. They should be funded by user fees, not taxes.

It would really suck if the portal to knowledge might have information, like books on history, or maps, or every automotive manual and wiring schematics.

Ben Franklin would be giving you shit for your ignorance.

 

[Orangecat]

It would really suck if the portal to knowledge might have information, like books on history, or maps, or every automotive manual and wiring schematics.

Complete sentences, please.

Ben Franklin would be giving you shit for your ignorance.

Go virtue signal elsewhere, fag.