[sfRummygirl]

I agree. My family makes most of it's dough from working in art...(on a blue collar paycheck, I should emphasize...we aren't grant recipients).
The grant stuff has a tendency to create crap, anyway. I totally support the arts, but not with the government throwing money at garbage.
It seems like it's the same arguement with us conservatives, that it's not that we don't support real good training in art and music....
The point were I have trouble is when I think of the schools. I am one person who's art training definitely helped me in other studies. But then that opens a whole nuther can of worms, with the state of our school now, and what should be, etc.

[Johnny_Cipher]

I totally support the arts, but not with the government throwing money at garbage.

Thank you. Emphasis on your "I". And that's the way it should be. I go to concerts, the museums, and the symphony, I have 'real' art hanging on my walls, and I even hired an artisan to make a Homer Simpson lawn jockey for my front yard :) But you know what? I paid for all of it myself, and would happily do it again. I don't expect the taxpayers to front the money for any of my weird indulgences.

This is not something government needs to be paying for (especially the lawn jockey).