[COEXERJ145]

Our local symphony orchestra receives money from the NEA and without it they couldn't exist. Almost all the members are amateurs who do it because they enjoy it. No one is paid for playing in the orchestra except when they do performances that are being paid for by a third party.

While there should defiantly be more oversight of the NEA and where it spends its money, the idea is not a bad thing. The idiots deciding where the money goes is the big problem.

[The Old Hoosier]

The idiots deciding where the money goes is the big problem.

And the only way to solve that problem is to abolish it. We won't always have Republican presidents--something Bush always seems to forget.

[yonif]

Our local symphony orchestra receives money from the NEA and without it they couldn't exist. Almost all the members are amateurs who do it because they enjoy it. No one is paid for playing in the orchestra except when they do performances that are being paid for by a third party.

You point out an excellent example. Decades ago, such a thing would not have been expected by the people of the government to be providing. Look at people today, expecting more and more of what the government is supposed to provide them. This increases every year that goes by.

And how do you think people get elected? By agreeing with these expectations if they are in the majority.

It is therefore that it is inevitable that government will continue to grow and take on more and more services. Because those who will be reaching government will have to be looking to supporting these beliefs to be elected.

[kenth]

You guys have got to be kidding. Couldn't exist without the government?

How about they get together for their love of playing, others could organize administration to provide funding from voluntary donations instead of from a forced mugging at government gunpoint.