BUDGET INCREASE FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS

The Drudge Report ^ | 01-28-2004 | Matt Drudge

[Captain Peter Blood]

BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS... Laura Bush plans to announce the request -- for the largest increase in two decades -- on Thursday... Developing...

[tubavil]

Wrong! We KNOW what we'll get with the enemy. We expected different from bush, but were stabbed in the back.

Conservatives will sit it out and the 'rats will win. It will be bush's and the 'republicans' fault. Watch.

[ovrtaxt]

No, but it makes perfect sense that the government should spend money to encourage patriotism, does it not?

No, it doesn't make any sense. Your assumption goes to the basic nature of what our government is supposed to be-- as small and unobtrusive as possible.

Why do you think the public--er government schools produce so many socialists? Because they are educated to believe that government is the best thing ever.

Catholic schools produce good catholics, business schools produce people with a business mind, and government schools, well...

That's why they have no business promoting art, or 'patriotism'.

[Ben Ficklin]

I have sister who operates a small business. She is very,very consevative. She lives in a very, very consevative small city in a very,very consevative large state.

But when the Civic Ballet needs money, she and all society ladies call up the National Endowment for the Arts. I give hell about it.

[Old Fud]

Nothing, in government terms.

Fairly significant in my world.

[yonif]

See this entry

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1067204/posts?page=74#74

[Trailerpark Badass]

The NEA designed the Vietnam Memorial, for example (or, rather sponsored its design).

Uh, no.

And, while I'd happily pay for patriotic art- it's rather clear that a lot of other people won't. Therefore, government should encourage it.

Bizarre.

[Merdoug]

Do you hear the laughter? That's Bush, laughing at conservatives. He's got them by the b*lls and he knows it. He knows that, whatever he does to gain more votes for HIM (flooding the country with illegals, giving the liberals more and bigger government), conservatives will swallow their beliefs and still support him because they HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. But they say: just wait ANOTHER year! By golly, NEXT term he will REALLY be a conservative! When there's ENOUGH Republicans in Congress! Just another term,....

[Nanodik]

To break with him over what are, in comparison to the war, extremely minor issues is the height of stupidity and selfishness.

For the most part, I think the war here is the minor issue. The stuff Bush is doing now will have ramifications years from now and none of it is good. He has failed to deliver a surplus budget let alone one that is balanced. He has added to list of socialist entitlements when there was no real clamor for the addition. He has pushed for increasing police powers to investigate yet those who are here legally in the country under the banner of national security while offering to give amnesty to those who are not and refuses to secure a border that is so porous, half the Mexican army could be in Tucson and we would not know it unless they announced it over the radio. You speak of victory over the left, well how do you do that when you are set to become the left?

[yonif]

Exactly. All this stuff that is being proposed to get more votes by the conservatives will never be overturned.

[Bernard Marx]

Conseravtives (such amy myself) have hated it in the past because money from it has gone to fund perverted art. But, if it goes to fund patriotic art- what's wrong with that? A good use of money, so far as I'm concerned.

Welcome to Free Republic. Conservatives -- as you claim to be -- generally have a problem with socialism in any form. Patriotic art is in the eye of the beholder. Hitler was a great supporter of "patriotic" German art. Better to let artists find their own funding independent from government.

[Captain Peter Blood]

No one here is saying we are not going to support Bush for re-election. All everyone is saying is that some of these programs and proposals are over the top and spending is out of control. I don't think anyone here would say that a 3 to 4% increase in spending is that bad. But when we have a 8.5% increase with no let up, you have to be concerned.

[GeronL]

#85... did you a grant for that?? =o)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

So far, Bush hasn't encountered a spending cause that he didn't work to increase. With regard to discretionary spending, GW's administration will go down in history as the most profligate spenders of all time, besting the wildest dreams of the "tax and spend" democrats. What are they thinking? Who the hell knows. Conservatives they are certainly NOT.

[madison10]

Bush is a politician, nothing more. Bill Clinton at heart was more of a conservative.

Right.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Who did you used to be?

[LADY J]

"As some of you might recall, Ken Burns' film The Civil War was partially funded by the NEA and it, IMHO, is the one piece of patriotic filmmaking of recent years which will be long-remembered."

Who makes the decisions about which artist gets funding?

[section9]

I love Bush, but this is one program I have to join the bashers on.

The NEA must go. Period. There should be no place for "state art" in America. Shades of Stalinoid paintings of Happy Factory workers. Besides, the arts crowd hates his guts and wants to send him back to Texas.

Tom DeLay! Kill this monstrosity. Now!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[MamaLucci]

Ken Burns' film The Civil War was partially funded by the NEA...

If you can't compete in the free market, you have no business being a filmmaker.
Just like Bill Moyers shouldn't have a tv program. His PBS gig would never survive
without government funding.

[victoryovertheleft]

If you think that the war is a "minor issue" then you're a waste of air.