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I just wrote to Homer Hickam:
H3Hickam@homerhickam.com

"Why should coal miners pay for PBS?"
This was an actual question asked by Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney.

I don't know anything about you beyond your heroic story as a NASA scientist who made it out of a coal mining town, but I am prepared to respect whatever view you might have on this subject.

I don't know how much of a coal miner's pay goes toward support for public television but I'll hazard a guess that losing PBS might be pretty terrible for their kids. I'll also wager that it doesn't cut into Mick Mulvaney's paycheck all that much, but the returns are, in my humble opinion, pretty good.

Respectfully,
Jeffery J. Haas - Deep Freeze Films
Whittier, California

---Maybe a few other good folks might take a moment to ask Mr. Hickam the same question. He's probably the best example of what a good education can do for a kid living in a coal mining town, and the way I see it, PBS plays an important role in a child's education.