[Scenic Sounds]

How much did we spend on the National Endowment for the Arts last year? How big a deal can this possibly be?

[yonif]

FYI

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According to its Financial Summary for FY 2002, the National Endowment of the Arts received almost a $100 million dollars from the Federal Government.

http://www.nea.gov/about/02Annual/financial.pdf

[Captain Peter Blood]

Thats not the point. The point is that Bush is even considering increasing funding at all.
Remember the old saying, a million here, a million there and pretty soon your talking real money.
It all adds up. I don't care what the budget is for National Endowment, any increase is too much for me.

[WOSG]

It's a very big deal. Doing the Right Thing should come naturally.

The appropriate funding level for NEA = $0
The appropriate funding level for NEH = $0
The appropriate funding level for CPB = $0
The appropriate funding level for NPR = $0

Socializing the TV industry is not needed. Socialistic patronage of arts and culture is small compared to the 'big' foundations - and thus redundant and useless. We should stop it.

That we fail to advocate this is a failure to live up to conservative principles.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money.