Cutting 1.6% of the budget is "mean-spirited"?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Searchlight) opposes defunding anything where the government already spends money. Well, for Democrat constituents anyway. In opposing the House Republicans' bill to cut $61 billion in federal spending, Reid spoke from the Senate floor this week saying, "The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting. It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist."


The people wouldn't exist without federal funding? Whatever, Harry.