[EdnaMode]

After the arts community has bashed Trump nonstop, why should the NEA or any other acting/performance group get funding?!

[EnglishOnly]

Dump the NEA ..... Totally cut off all funding.

Same goes for PBS, NPR, etc.,

[Textide]

Just a few items from this March 2017 article and funded by taxpayers that won't be missed:

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

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[Arm_Bears]

The US federal government has no Constitutional authority whatsoever related to the funding of “art.”

[clee1]

There is no Constitutional provision for taking my money and giving it to artists.

[Safetgiver]

the NEA’s vital role in serving our nation’s communities....What IS that vital role?

[SuperLuminal]

Glad to see that she could get her tongue freed up...

[IronJack]

Let me guess ... abolish the NEA and the sky will fall, blood will run like rivers, and the world will come to a groaning, agonizing end.

How'd I do?

[morphing libertarian]

I have direct with I don’t know how many stations. Won’t miss PBS with BBC and british streaming.

So many radio choices on the computer it makes my head spin. Don’t need PBS radio.

[upchuck]

Dumping the NEA and PBS is just a start. Here’s a complete list:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373441-the-federal-programs-trump-proposes-cutting-in-2019-budget

[RetiredTexasVet]

Have him contact the Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Tom Steyer, etc. for I’m sure they will more than willing to make up the shortfall.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

They can all go and post videos on YouTube. People apparently get rich doing that, because advertisers pay for eyeballs.

[trebb]

The only one's who would "suffer" if we stopped funding PBS/NEA are those who have no other ambitions/skills to "earn" a living.

Let Capitalism decide if they are worthwhile ventures....