Posted on 03/24/2017 6:41:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Donald Trump wasn’t my first choice for president. I was. But he was my second choice, and I’m proud that I supported him. In tackling the federal budget, he faces a debt that has doubled to $20 trillion in the past eight years. No doubt a chainsaw seems more appropriate to the task at hand than a carving knife, but I would urge my president and friend to hold back from one tiny area of the budget whose elimination would cost far more than it would save.
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Hey Huck. You pay for it.
the NEA is an embarrassment.
what passes for ‘art’ in today’s society is appalling.
sorry, no. not with my money.
crowd source it off the internet, just stay out of my pockets
Yeah F—kabee where would we be without those wonderful works of art like “Piss Christ” and “Elephant Dung Virgin Mary”. Make him ambassador to Congo so we don’t have to hear anymore crap like this from him. Jeez what’s wrong with our bench. My High School graduate friends are smarter than these turds.
If the National Endowment for the Arts will be preserving 200 year old works, then fine, let’s pay for it.
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Once again, private owners who have a vested interest in such works will do a much better job of preserving them than any government agency.
Museums financed by those horrid rich people could and would be vastly superior to the NEA.
The NEA’s sole purpose is to use taxpayer money to enact two communist goals listed by Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book “The Naked Communist”, later read into the Congressional Record in 1963 by Rep. Albert S. Herlong, Jr.:
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
Dear Huckleberry: No, go away!
NEA supports several things that I approve along with supporting things I disapprove of. Neither fact matters. We have $20T in debt. It is immoral to spend on anything nonessential. NEA has to go, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, PBS/NPR, and the rest of the nice things that are optional.
It’s just like a family deep in debt that cuts music lessons, gym membership, and a new car from the budget. Those may be nice things, but if you don’t have the money, it’s wrong to spend it.
“... private owners who have a vested interest ...”
And I suppose you believe the same for “private owners” of land along the borders; they should pay for national defense? Your argument suffers from reductio ad absurdum. Every cost of government can be shown to favor a subset of the populace.
Another article that starts off by someone who wasn’t for, didn’t want, didn’t vote for Trump yet implores him to do things their way
GTFO Huck-a-phoney
This is why you can’t trust the guys, they talk tough but when it comes down to actually doing something, they always have a ‘good’ reason to keep the program.
Your argument suffers from reductio ad absurdum.
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No. Your argument is a non-sequitur.
Artwork like a painting or a sculpture has no Constitutional protections, unlike our national borders.
Private property is protected already. Artwork would merely be a type of property. It can be insured. It can be bought and sold. It can be protected from theft by laws already on the books for other property.
I really don’t know how your claim applies in this situation at all, unless you somehow don’t understand private property and the advantages of it over government ownership.
Your last line sounds like something a socialist would say.
I’m guessing you don’t have any friends. Angry old fat. Do you live in a trailer? Take showers? Get invited out? Does that explain why you hang out here picking fights? There are a lot of people here just like you. Too many. It is why FR is fading away. Good job.
Agree wholeheartedly. When will these people figure out, or care, that everybody has their pet taxpayer funded entity, but it all adds up to an ever increasing burden on the taxpayer, many of whom oppose what the money is spent on anyway. If someone wants to put crosses in jars of pee, let them get private funding.
Funny how they didn’t have a problem with a Christian symbol in the public square then.
Poor Mike Huckabee.
Too stupid to realize that no matter what he does, liberals will always hate him.
Taking up a position, as a conservative, that will make most conservative hate you (or at least think you are an idiot) means that no one will support you.
Arkansas - the fount of stupidity.
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