Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts [$15 million to $20 million for NEA]

New York Times ^ | January 29, 2004 | ROBERT PEAR

[windchime]

"I'm starting to think maybe Kerry should win. The one advantage is, if Kerry wins we dont have to worry about Hillary for eight years. The Clintons will be off the front pages. The silver lining to every black cloud."

Promises...promises. I was told by dem friends when Bush was elected, 'Now you don't have to see the Clintons anymore'. So now you say, 'Elect Kerry and you'll finally be rid of the Clintons'.

THEY DON'T GO AWAY!!

President Bush is everything the Clintons and their ilk HATE. Good! Let them be miserable for eight or more years.

[Heyworth]

Mapplethorp continues to be funded by the NEA. Just produced a play in 2001 on NEA (IE TAXPAYER) funds.

Impressive, considering that he's been dead since 1989.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...They can't figure out why my corpse keeps gettin back up. ;^]...

Got to admit, I'm rather surprised by it myself.

[OWK]

Got to admit, I'm rather surprised by it myself.

Clean livin my friend..

Clean livin.

[windchime]

Neither I, nor the original poster said they were good. I bumped the fact that the problem resulted with handouts being given without conditions.

[from occupied ga]

Maybe it was a Mapplethorp play produced by someone else in 2001 - going by memory here. It would have been difficult for him to produce I agree.* Nevertheless his "art" continues to be displayed at taxpayer expense around the country

*On the other hand maybe not, my father has been dead for 30 years and yet manages to vote straight democrat in every election.

[OWK]

I bumped the fact that the problem resulted with handouts being given without conditions.

The problem is that the handouts are given AT ALL.

Robbing one man of his money to give to another... is evil.

No amount of conditional discrimination can make it good.

[Area51]

Got to admit, I'm rather surprised by it myself.
Clean livin my friend..

Clean livin.


866 posted on 01/29/2004 11:07:09 AM PST by OWK
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Just think how much engery you would have if you would just drink the Kool aid.

You too would be able to multitask 6 or eight windows, cut and paste every dreamy picture of Jorge Arbusto. Have the energy to spam every thread that has criticism of Bubba Junior, with every excuse Wormtongue Rove has come up with. Be able to call all the Kool Aid kids to the rescue at a minutes notice and hit the abuse button at the same time.

These bots are some really gifted folk.

[Badray]

" I will continue to support this President because he is a strong Commander in Chief, because he is conducting a War on Terror that is keeping us all free,..."

Forgive me for jumping in here, but Bush IS NOT keeping us free.

The terrorists do not want to enslave us. They want to destroy us. That's all the terrorists can do. There isn't a force in the world that can enslave us except our own government and only if continue to allow it. Rather than keeping us free, Bush is enslaving us with higher taxes that will result from his massive spending increases, bigger government, and more restrictions on our liberty in the name of fighting terrorism.

[windchime]

'The problem is that the handouts are given AT ALL.'

Bush didn't begin them, but he has to deal with them. I don't know if you can end the NEA with an EO.

It's just a good idea to wait and see exactly what these 'reports' are about. I think we have much more important news breaking right now.

[af_vet_rr]

You can thank the Bush supporters in a few years when you have a clearer idea about national security, which is my number one priority.

I do respect that you and others place it as your number one priority. I don't think either party will lower our national security as another 9/11 would eliminate their party in the next election.

I'm willing to put up with another democrat if meant another Ronald Reagan down the road - I lived through JFK and LBJ (which were worse than Bill Clinton), Carter, and Clinton.

The people at the top only care about elections, and right now it's in their best interest to appeal to people on both sides of the fence, through all these little programs and expenditures. They may not be on the scale of JFK/LBJ, but they are just as harmful, as they are harder to reverse down the road.

We need less government, not more, and we can maintain our current level of national security (as weak as it may be) and still work towards less government.

[OWK]

Bush didn't begin them, but he has to deal with them.

By "deal with them"... you mean EXPAND them.

(because that is what he proposed)

[Eva]

I agree that handouts without any control is a bad thing, it's like supporting NPR.

[af_vet_rr]

Forgive me for jumping in here, but Bush IS NOT keeping us free.

The terrorists do not want to enslave us. They want to destroy us. That's all the terrorists can do. There isn't a force in the world that can enslave us except our own government and only if continue to allow it.

Not only that, they don't have to kill many Americans to destroy us.

They just have to create enough fear in enough Americans, and the statists in the government will take that fear and use it to send us further down the road to a police state. At that point, the USA is utterly destroyed.

The democrats came dangerously close after 9/11 to really getting the ball to rolling (all those proposals and soundbites that I heard from them scared the hell out of me). Stalin (and Hitler) both preyed upon the fear and anger of the people and came up with a democrat's dream nation - government regulation of anything and everything.

[VMI70]

later

[windchime]

It was your post that I bumped that began this particular exchange. I didn't want to further comment on it unless you were made aware.I agreed with that statement and I agree about NPR.

[windchime]

"(because that is what he proposed)"

We don't have a clue what he proposed or IF he proposed. That is what the trustworthy media reports SAY he proposed.

[Roscoe]

http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/index.html