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Freepers will get over it, except those that were on a final exit strategy anyway. Freepers that get fixated on this puppie are simply not in the game, politically. They are just ventilating, and probably most of those don't have much interest in "art" anyway. Art is for girlie men. OK, the issue is whether the government should subsidize it on the surface. But do you think that is really the source of the emotion over the spending of pennies? Of course not.

I'm glad you can be so prodigal with other people's money as to deem a few million dollars "pennies." Also admire the snobbery in your conviction that people concerned over spending on the NEA "probably don't have much interest in art anyway."

But I'd still be interested in knowing, Mr. Erudite: what precisely are the "pennies" that you consider "well spent" on the NEA? Share with us poor benighted uneducated Bible banging "red meaters" the NEA programs informed people like you consider worth funding. Won't you please, Sir Oracle?

I think Masterpiece Theatre is money well spent, as is much of the Arts programming on PBS. Should it really be tax subsidized for my pleasure, because it is elevating to those that would not otherwise be exposed, and thus an uplift in the aesthetic pleasure of those that don't go to the theatre? I don't know, but don't worry much about it, because the absolute dollars spent are so low. What I worry more about, is government spending which involves big bucks, that in some way must be paid for by more than just those that are RINO country clubbers, who live off trust funds, or maybe even made their money honorably. By the way, I don't belong to a country club. I don't play golf - at least not yet.