I'm fine with the cut in spending, but think that using this disaster to propagate your agenda is pretty low. We're still counting our dead and you feel that now is the time to discuss funding for the arts??
"I'm fine with the cut in spending, but think that using this disaster to propagate your agenda is pretty low."
I think the NEA is pretty low. Too bad we didn't have all that NEA funding in an emergency slush fund, huh? It would have been billions on hand for immediate use.
And BTW, Drudge pointed out that Bush is calling for spending cuts. The debate is on. So I ask you, what's a more disgusting waste of tax money?
As a FReeper said to me once when I needed it, "Lighten up, Francis." The discussion here is only partly funding for the arts -- the whole picture is reducing spending to help NOLA, and the context is Dubya's announcement that there would need to be spending cuts to do so.
Call it "using this disaster to propagate your agenda" if you want, but -- unlike Cindy Sheehan and Bush bashers -- it's within the context of a worthy mission stated by our President: to pay for NOLA relief by cutting taxes. This discussion stems from that, and if you ask me, it is an ideally appropriate platform for propatating an agenda to get rid of the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts. Even though "we're still counting our dead," as you say, this disaster is a perfect illustration of exactly the kind of thing that's needed. Personally, I don't find that "low" at all.
>>>>We're still counting our dead and you feel that now is the time to discuss funding for the arts??
It is discussing funding for the arts.
It is discussing DEfunding for the arts.
We need money to recover from this disaster.
This arts is a line item to be looked at to reallocate funding :)
Actually, it's completely relevant. The funding for the disaster relief and rebuilding has to come from somewhere-they can't just mint more money-and either the taxpayer gets soaked some more,or cuts are made. Which naturally leads to the question,what gets cut? The suggestions proffered here are sensible,and I'm certain that we can walk and chew gum-find the money,and decide to get it from sources whose causes most Americans don't support anyway.