Posted on 09/14/2017 6:30:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In an article I posted here in July, I lamented the fact that the National Endowment for the Humanities had funded the research for Professor Nancy MacLean’s hatchet job of a book entitled Democracy in Chains.
I was sure that the government’s largesse was not limited to just this nasty book and therefore was not surprised when I came across this article by Christine Roe, “From Cactus Theater to the Met, US Government Pours Hundreds of Millions Into Well-Heeled Arts.” Based on a new report from that invaluable organization, Open the Books, Roe highlighted numerous cases where federal money had gone to support arts and cultural organizations.
Thanks to Open the Books, we know that in the last fiscal year, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities ladled out $441 million to more than 3,100 entities. Who gets money from Uncle Sam? The Metropolitan Museum of Art does. So does the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, and Robert Redford’s famous Sundance Institute in Utah. All are quite capable of raising money from voluntary sources, but apparently they just can’t resist the urge to top off with some cash the IRS has squeezed out of American taxpayers.
Whether an organization is able to raise the money it wants voluntarily is really beside the point, however. That’s because the federal government has no business at all in subsidizing the arts and humanities. The purposes for which Congress may spend money are enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and such subsidies are not among them.
Besides the money flowing into the coffers of those well-known organizations, the funding for an extremely obscure one caught my eye: Borderlands Theater located in Tucson, Arizona.
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https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2017/03/29/borderlands-theater-putting-on-a-show-3-decades-tucson/
National Endowment for Artsy Entitled Freeloaders
The government has no right taking taxpayer money to support the “arts.” Or NPR or any of the other highbrow, pretentious organizations that appeal to penthouse liberals.
“That’s because the federal government has no business at all in subsidizing the arts and humanities.”
Or anything ELSE for that matter, aside from our Nation’s defense!
But I digress...that pesky Constitution! ;)
I’m so glad to see this topic getting a little attention in a major national publication. Make art great again by forcing the “artists” to fulfill a public need (i.e., find a paying audience) rather than their egos.
But then liberals will tell us how the arts inspire and enlighten people and all that.
Yes, I sure was inspired by “Piss Christ”.
This is just make-work for people with no marketable skills...work-fare.
Every penny that goes to ‘the arts’ is a donation to the democrat party. Let rich liberal elites pay for their own damn hobbies...
Much of this taxpayer supported “art” is trash making jobs for loser “artists” who couldn’t sell their “art” to anyone with a discerning brain.
"Loser artists" are a subset of a democrat victim group - a subset of a subset of 'intellectuals'...
Liberal elites have enough money to pay for their own damn hobbies. More than enough.
Conservative traditional families are sick of supporting liberal 'artists' who hate middle class Americans, liberal PBS 'talent' who hate middle class Americans, and liberal PBS and museum elites who hate middle class Americans.
Let the damn liberal elites pay for their own entertainment... not steal from hard working Americans trying to raise their families...
"Loser artists" are a subset of a democrat victim group - a subset of a subset of 'intellectuals'...
Liberal elites have enough money to pay for their own damn hobbies. More than enough.
Conservative traditional families are sick of supporting liberal 'artists' who hate middle class Americans, liberal PBS 'talent' who hate middle class Americans, and liberal PBS and museum elites who hate middle class Americans.
Let the damn liberal elites pay for their own entertainment... not steal from hard working Americans trying to raise their families...
Yes. We don’t need it. And aside from 1 or 2 reps no one is going to do anything about it pr even cares.
Some of his stuff was striking, but I wouldn't want it on a my wall.
My ex was involved in handing cash, er, "grants" out locally, from the NEA.
What a racket, subsidizing various acts. It's a business in itself applying for all of them.
I know she didn't reimburse at least one group becuase the failed to include a mention of the town arts council and the NEA.
If those 300 nature lovers and New Agers want to commune with a saguaro in the desert, I have some news for them.
It doesn’t cost anything. Just get out of your car and think deep thoughts while standing near a cactus.
In Texas we don’t have those beautiful giant cacti and have to make do with all sorts of clumps of cacti. I was communing with a prickly pear patch the other day when I heard something and thought the cacti were talking to me. It turned out to be a rattlesnake backing out the way he went in.
Yes, many artists are people who simply refuse to work 9-5 jobs. As a defense against being termed a “bum”, they feign interest in “art”. I don’t think artists today are those who work low-paying jobs to make ends meet; they seem to be a non-working population altogether.
Justifies 'disability' payments?
Never even thought about that; you’re probably right.
I’ve seen volunteer opportunities now that insist you sign some kind of waiver so you don’t show up, pick up a tool, then throw yourself on the ground and call a lawyer. Incredible, isn’t it?
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