Posted on 01/19/2017 9:48:08 AM PST by TigerClaws
WTF????
Very cool! I know a lady who did something similar.
She and I have chatted about all of the videos on YouTube that teach you how to build or fix things.
Personally, I am so giddy that I feel like a 4 year old girl in the My Pink Pony factory.
That’s the most SCARY thing I’ve ever read!!
Everything he “knows” is from public stations!
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AS SCARY AS THIS???------>Steve Edwards 3m3 minutes ago Steve Edwards ?@The_Big_Quiet The National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities serve a national security function. These are not lavish giveaways.
The NEA is to education what Rosie O’Donnell is to diet and exercise.
“gutted everything important from our government.”
Still pondering this ...
You don’t understand the process of writing a book.
You need time to do it, so you can’t have a job at the same time. You need inspiration, and that can only be found at certain tropical resorts, especially during the cold winter months.
That NEA grant makes that possible.
What does the general welfare clause mean to you?
The humanities generally are a huge force multiplier for the US. Everyday people in the Soviet Union admired the US because of American arts and culture that leaked through to those countries. Everyone in an egypt or a Pakistan who sees thanks to American arts and media that a better more civilized way of life is possible becomes a possible secular reformer in their home country. That’s why the Voice of America is so useful.
Sorry, but I don’t buy the argument. VOA is not NEA. And when either is used to promote garbage (i.e. Piss on Christ) or politicize the educational message (sesame street characters promoting global warming agenda), then they do not rate tax dollars for that. There is plenty of “free” internet content for foreigners to admire the good things about our country.
So now so-called artists are going to have to produce real art that real people like or go get real jobs.
That’s making it real for them.
I wasn’t arguing that VOA=NEA, I was explaining why the humanities are a national security issue. VOA’s power is in spreading existing content more than it is creating new content - ie making sure the USSR could hear the Beatles.
The annual budget for the NEA is only $146 million. Sure, get rid of it, but this is just culture war distraction stuff. It’s not going to fix our budget deficits driven by defense spending and social security nobody wants to pay for, or force artists to make art that you like.
People didn’t understand why the humanities are a national security issue. I explained why it is. The NEA is not a national security issue.
Must need glasses. Can’t be.
Fantastic POST OF THE DAY!!
I HATE that I can’t think of these things like some FReepers do.
A is fantastic and never occurred to me.
[Why can’t I get a grant for my science fiction novels?]
Apparently you aren’t ‘special’.
“special” = “snowlfakes”
They would rather be charitable with other peoples' money.
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