Astrophysicist turned celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a Twitter rant about the President’s budget on Sunday and then again on Wednesday. The scientist insisted that it wasn’t smart to cut big government or small government.
Tyson attacked the idea of cutting big areas of government spending including education, science, and healthcare because Americans need it.
Cutting those areas will make America sick, weak, and stupid again, Tyson said in his Sunday night tweets.
The fastest way to Make a America Weak Again: Cut science funds to our agencies that support it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 19, 2017
The fastest way to Make America Sick Again: Cut funding to the National Institutes of Health
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 19, 2017
The fastest way to Make America Stupid: Cut funds to programs that support education.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 19, 2017
The fastest way to thwart Earth’s life-support systems for us all: Turn EPA into EDA — the Environmental Destruction Agency.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 19, 2017
The argument presented by Tyson is short-sighted. The federal Department of Education that Trump wants to cut was created in 1979 when Tyson was 22-years old — does this mean that he did not receive a good education? Or is there a way to teach kids without a federal bureaucracy?
Strangely, Tyson did not commend Trump for signing a bill that expands funding for NASA by nearly $20 billion. If he cares about government spending, he should be praising the President. However, it seems he cares more about being a shill for Democrats first and a man who cares about science second.
On Wednesday, Tyson continued tweeting about government spending and insisted that Trump shouldn’t be cutting funds from small departments like the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for Humanities (NEH).
Tyson insisted they were so small that it made no difference to the overall budget if they were cut.
Not that anybody asked, but the combined Federal budgets for the NEA & NEH equals what Americans spend annually on lip balm.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
Cutting the NEA & NEH to save money on a $3-trillion budget is like thinking 1/4-mile is far relative to the width of the USA
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
Cutting the NEA & NEH to save money on a $3-trillion budget is like thinking 1/3-inch is long relative to a football field.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
Cutting the NEA & NEH to save money on a $3-trillion budget is like thinking 3 days is long relative to an 85-year lifespan.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
Cutting the NEA & NEH on a $3-trillion budget is like thinking a 2-min cellphone video is large relative to a 3Tb Hard Drive.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
The annual combined Federal budgets of the NEA & NEH equals 4hrs & 23min of spending on the US Military.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
That’s kind of like telling an obese person that skipping a snack isn’t going make them thin, but that is not a reason for them to indulge in fattening foods.
The debt is exceeding $20 trillion, and cuts are going to have to be made across the board very soon, or millennials will suffer the consequences in the long run. It figures that Tyson being a scientist could understand math, but apparently not.
