Because there was no art before the NEA was created.
Get a job, artists.
“In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million”
Get rid of it. Zero it out.
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Translation: pull my finger
Let me guess:
1. Global warming will increase exponentially.
2. The poor will be most affected (even though very few watch or listen).
3. Dogs and cats living together.
4. Artists with no talent will have nowhere to display their drivel.
5. The earth will be destroyed by a rogue comet.
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.
Get used to disappointment.
I've been disappointed with you for a long time.
Leftists can use their OWN money to fund this leftist organization, just like they do with Planned Parenthood, NO MORE GOVT FREEBIES
The fox in the henhouse responds, saying that he didn’t eat those chickens.
Annual NEA budget $146,200,000 USD (2015)
Seems like there is a lot of overhead.
It’s always other people’s money with the Left. Why isn’t Hollywood funding the arts?
Stop right there. There's that pesky year again. Trump should just propose nullifying every bit of legislation enacted in 1965, and all subsequent renewals.
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...
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.
Kinda weakened his case with, “...NEA’s vital role...” Not going to win this argument with that assertion.
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.
It will no more be eliminated from funding than the atrocious but popular Planned Parenthood.
It’s the Piss Christ agency.
So we give them money so they can give it away to their liberal friends?
No thanks!