[Cicero]

From an economic point of view, it's a piddling amount, less than a drop in the bucket. But from a political point of view, it's totally stupid.

[nopardons]

If I remember correctly and I just may be wrong about this, some of the money the NEA gets, goes into music appreciation and art classes in public schools. While a goodly part of the monies spent by the NEA, is spent on utter garbage, this part isn't. It's used to take kids to see operas,on field trips to museums, and to bring fine classical musicians to schools, where most of the children would never be exposed, at all, to this stuff.