Posted on 02/12/2018 3:16:48 PM PST by EdnaMode
Earlier today, the National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Jane Chu released the following statement regarding President Trump's budget plan for 2019.
Today we learned that the President's FY 2019 budget proposes elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. We are disappointed because we see our funding actively making a difference with individuals in thousands of communities and in every Congressional District in the nation.
In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million to organizations and individuals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, launched a national songwriting competition for high school students, convened four summits across the country as part of Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, issued a research report on the economic impact of the arts in rural communities, and distributed emergency funding to arts agencies in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, among other activities.
We understand that the President's budget request is a first step in a very long budget process. We stand ready to assist in that process as we continue to operate as usual.
As a federal government agency, the NEA cannot engage in advocacy, either directly or indirectly. We will, however, continue our practice of educating about the NEA's vital role in serving our nation's communities.
Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America's rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. Visit arts.gov to learn more about NEA.
Remember the Getty Museum dissing Trump when he asked to borrow a painting?
They’re under NEA funding. So now that ahole who offere a toilet can now pound sand. I know Trump remembered that crap...
See my post 21. The Getty Museum. Under NEA funding. Close to my place by drive. Im sure Trump remembers a diss..
This does not matter:
“In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million to organizations and individuals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, launched a national songwriting competition for high school students, convened four summits across the country as part of Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, issued a research report on the economic impact of the arts in rural communities, and distributed emergency funding to arts agencies in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, among other activities.”
Why is all that irrelevant?
The American people, without direction from the federal government, acting as private individuals, private organizations, private institutions, private foundations and private corporations donate BILLIONS every year for “the arts”, in both direct general funding and grants.
What the American people do on their own voluntarily makes the NEA funding an insignificant drop in the bucket and not worthy of the political direction so much of the NEA funds take.
Unfortunately, it will be funded in 2019. It is a tool of the degenerate left.
Kinda weakened his case with, “...NEA’s vital role...” Not going to win this argument with that assertion.
So, since OCT 1... over 19 weeks... they're averaging 12 grants every single business day... 1.5 every hour... averaging $23,500 each...
Since 2000, they NEA has cost taxpayers $2.3 billion... I don't think we've seen $2.3 billion worth of increased artistry for the nation in that span.
If they handed out $26 million since OCT 1... in 19 of 52 weeks for FY 2018... that projects to $71 million for FY 2018... so... where does the other $75 million go????
So you admit that you're planning to violate that law with simple semantics. Nice.
The NEA has to be disbanded for one reason, it practices religious discrimination. Religions need not apply. That builds into all NEA grants a pro-state bias.
How can we eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts? Its right there in the Constitution as a necessary part of our Federal government. Wait while I get my copy....
It will no more be eliminated from funding than the atrocious but popular Planned Parenthood.
It’s the Piss Christ agency.
It does speak somewhere of the “useful arts” in the Constitution.
Can the NEA criticize the two heinous “paintings” unveiled today of Obola and Michelle? Dare they criticize something that terrible, or will “that” set off their PBS-NEA wannabee’s in the elite set they adore?
So we give them money so they can give it away to their liberal friends?
No thanks!
Yes. “No chicken inside the henhouse was eaten by the fox.” (The dead birds inside the fox are no longer chickens, right? Depending on what your definition of “chicken” is.)
The live chickens still inside the henhouse are waiting until the 2020 budget.....
Dump the NEA ..... Totally cut off all funding.
Same goes for PBS, NPR, etc.,
1. $495,000 to create medieval smells in a museum
2. $95,000 to adapt Shakespeare without words
3. $10,000 for a play about two anti-gun lesbians
4. $50,000 to help bring “Trans Scripts” to the theater; hundreds of thousands more to support LGBTQ issues
5. $20,000 to support a series of public art presentations “on the theme of climate change” in Minneapolis
6. $35,000 for “affordable housing and sustainable communities for San Francisco artists”
7. $100,000 in (quite literal) puppet projects
8. $845,000 to support film festivals that showcase movies with decapitated heads, public urination and sexual promiscuity
9. $6,000 to finance research that looks into the lives of pets in Victorian England
10. $20,000 for “Piss Christ” a photo of a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine
Handouts for lockstep liberal artists only. Many of which are already established in their fields.
And the ACLU is A-OK with the taxpayers funding ANTI-Christian artworks but Hell No to anything honoring Judeo-Christian traditions and beliefs like the 10 Commandments.
I’ll bet that if Trump defunds the NEA, that Left-wing, nay Communist, artists would produce numerous art shows, exhibitions, open call competitions, and wheatposting graffiti posters decrying the Trump administration.
Where would they find the money to produce these works if the NEA is gone?
Psst, these artists would still produce these works and even find motivation to have them seen quickly.
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