Cash for Clunkers! Well, now, I guess more stimlulus finds can go to this!
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
The NEA was given $80 million of the government’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
Look, if they ARE going to spens tax dolars on porn, at least make it good porn! Maybe even an educational video about what attracts RINOS like George “Screw those Southerners” Voinovich.
As a bonus, I offer up a baby picture of Lindsay Graham!
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Dave C
Gatordoug
I am a moderate Republican and an art lover.
As an instructor at a very successful junior college I have a few brief, and quickly typed, comments.
Historically speaking artists have always needed sponsors, advocates, what-not. Look at Classical Greece, a high point in western civilization as an example: all that beauty was funded with public money. If we want to be honest, tribute money from the Athenian Empire. I have no problem with that but Liberals do as they try to use the old anachronistic argument of applying the values of today–their values–to the past.
It is unfortunate that we would let a few bad apples spoil the lot. Let’s not do the same. Modern Republicans are traditionally known for avoiding the slander game.
So let there be art at tax expense. I would rather was a few K be wasted here or there than to let art die; I would rather cut the special loans to foreign students–for example the loan Obama got as a college student (constitution aside)–than deny free expression.
I think the porn stuff was only equal to the vile words I could use to describe it.
Let us not go to the extreme except in our commitment to truth, justice and equality–true equality by which the fringe elements that so dominate our political and social spectrum would wither to nothing: in a test of will and capability they are completely defenseless if we just let the playing field be level.
Get out and vote but do the homework.
College History Instructor
How about we cut off all funding to the arts, humanities and sports, and reduce everyone’s taxes an equivilent amount? Truth is, art is a hobby, not a job. If that’s what they like to do, then do it, but don’t expect people who actually work for a living to subsidize your hobby. Art adds nothing to our standard of living. In fact having my hard earned money conficated by the liberal government and transferred to “artists” forces my family to live at a standard lower than what I sweated for. I fact, we need a constitutional amendment to make it illegal for the government to transfer any free money or free services to any natural person or corporations for any reason. If artists can’t make enough money to make a living, then let them work at a real job for their livelyhood and do art on their time off.
Bob
Brian Geeslin, moderate Republican is codespeak for liberal. Your post drips liberalism, as does you choice of the building you work in.
Bob