[reformedliberal]

Life as a successful working artist is strictly bootstrap capitalism and creative entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, the majority of my colleagues would sell out in an instant for a government stipend.

[winoneforthegipper]

vote call:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll070.xml

[Mercat]

My son is barely making it as a free lance musician. I’m also self employed. I answered a Rasmussin poll last night and I’m sure that the computer was thrilled to use all it’s options. I told my 8 year old granddaughter that we were watching the Congress give away her freedom and set it up so she would have to pay more than half her income in taxes when she was grown.

[Think free or die]

My brother is an artist, and he tells me the same thing about government funds to the arts. Almost everything is siphoned off to an assortment of established “arts institutions”, wherein administrators earn big bucks, and next to nothing trickles down to the creators of the art. My piano teacher, who works in theater as a music director, has told me that same thing. He’s against funding the NEA for similar reasons. It’s window dressing that doesn’t really support art in a meaningful fashion. Both my brother and piano teacher are otherwise politically lefties and supported Zero.