Uncle Sam Needs YOU To Pay For Cowboy Poetry

The Looking Spoon ^ | 3-9-11 | Jared H. McAndersen

[The Looking Spoon]

If there was any wonder how truly $#$%ed we are when it comes to fixing our addiction to spending money Harry Reid answers that question once and for all...

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting," said Reid in a floor speech. "It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

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Not exist? Tens of thousands of people would apparently disappear if there wasn't taxpayer funded cowboy poetry? What happens? Would they become unborn? Is the GOP trying to abort cowboy poets?

Wait a sec, tens of thousands of people show up to this thing? Are any of them actual cowboys that write poetry, or is it like the benefits of ObamaCare and its all make believe characters in one of the poems?

This is hard to believe, I mean, President Obama can't even get 100 high schools to beg him for an appearance at their graduation ceremonies. 100 times more people gather to find out what rhymes with cowboy?

Here's an idea! Its a win win, Reid can still have his festival, and Republicans don't have to be the bad guys for nailing its coffin shut. Send Obama there to read some of the poems.

Boy wouldn't that be fun? We could place bets on what he would do to embarrass the country next...here's my prediction...

[Mears]

Is it Brokeback Mountanish?

[unixfox]

Uncle Sam is not a friend or uncle to anyone.

FUUS!

[Leisler]

[pankot]

Harry, go back to the nursing home and STFU!

[Rocky]

“tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist”

Why, were they conceived there?

[Fedupwithit]

I heard this guy was headlining the show this year...Harry Reid has a 'tingle up his leg' to see him perform..

[ari-freedom]

“The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival.”

LOL so much for Shakespeare, Chaucer and Wordsworth.

[libertarian27]

Poetry hour around the campfire

Ode to Harry Ried'

[baddog 219]

[Tammy8]

As much as I enjoy cowboy poetry I do not think it should recieve federal money. Cowboy poetry is not new, check out Badger Clark- one of my favorites. I have an entire book of Badger’s poems that was published in 1915 and I bet without taxpayer money. There are many people involved in cowboy poetry in our area that have major bucks and I have to believe that is true in Nevada and elsewhere. Let those that enjoy it support it and not the taxpayers!!

[Inyo-Mono]

“The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival.”

LOL so much for Shakespeare, Chaucer and Wordsworth.

This ain't the big city out here.

[chiefqc]

Old harry will be find once he gets his meds and has his soiled diaper changed.

[Fledermaus]

What’s next? Funding for Left Handed Transvestite Yugo Owning Short Stories?

[The Looking Spoon]

LOL...shhhhh, don’t give them ideas