San Francisco ... home of fruits, nuts, flakes ... and Nancy Pelosi. How else can you explain stimulus money, distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), being channeled to these San Fran based entities: Frameline - gay and lesbian film house, received $50,000 for general operating expenses. One of this house's recent offerings was "Thundercrack".
The Symmetry Project - $25,000 to produce stuff like this:
The NEA has a huge list of grants it has distributed as part of the National Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Obama's porkulus bill). Here, on their own website, is the list of projects funded through this act alone:
I'm sorry, but what is $50,000 for the Alabama Folklife Association going to do for our economic recovery? $50,000 for Alonzo King's Lines Ballet? $50,000 for Architecture for Humanity? Flint MI Institute of the Arts? foolsFury Theater Company of San Francisco? $50,000 for the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival? $25,000 for Milkweed Editions? $50,000 for the Museum of Glass? There are hundreds of these entries, and all the money came out of the porkulus bill. It is amazing to see how many recipients were in San Francisco - Pelosi's constituents must be very happy with her. $80,000,000 in total out of the porkulus bill wasted on crap like this.
The NEA shells out a tremendous amount of our tax dollars each and every year to support many different types of art programs. How much? Take a look at this list, provided by the NEA itself, of grants JUST for dance companies made in the first part of 2009:
In this time of economic meltdown, where all Americans are being urged by Obama to sacrifice for the common good, why are we shelling out this huge pile of money, instead of using it where it would actually do some economic good?
Now, don't get me wrong ... I am not advocating censorship, and I am not saying that people who express themselves in an artistic manner don't have a right to do so (whether or not I see any 'art' in their expression). However, they do not have a right to do it with my tax dollars. Let the people who appreciate such artistic expressions support it themselves.....
Now, don't get me wrong ... I am not advocating censorship, and I am not saying that people who express themselves in an artistic manner don't have a right to do so (whether or not I see any 'art' in their expression). However, they do not have a right to do it with my tax dollars. Let the people who appreciate such artistic expressions support it themselves.....
2 comments:
Amen brother, keep on preachin'!
When you look at it and say, oh, but we must help art schools and dance studios and help promote art -- and just bec. you don't think it's worth it, doesn't mean they shouldn't get help.
Ok, that's probably all true.
But -- BUT -- when you see small businesses closing up bec. of the recession, where is their hand-out? Where is their $500,000 or a million handed to them? Just to keep them going for another year. They're employing people and providing a service.
But those aren't the people that make the noise. That's what sad.
Instead you have money going where I just cannot believe the general public wants it to go.
Again, that's what got her there, so she's got to pay them back somehow.
It's just so frustrating.
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