Everyone’s Neighbor on the Chopping Block

The late-Mr. Rogers melted hearts in 1969 before the Senate Commerce Committee stressing the need for publicly-funded educational television and defend funding for the nascent Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the main source of funding for PBS and NPR).

This speech is all the more poignant in light of the proposed elimination of CPB to help fund the expansion of the military and fund the proposed Trump wall in the latest draft budget.

h/t Mashable