This creature is John Boehner. He is the oily and unnaturally tanned leader of the House Republicans and he and his slithy toaves have spent the first week of the Obama presidency bitching and moaning about the economic rescue package. Amid all the other carping, was a sneering sideswipe at a $50 million allocation to the National Endowments for the Arts (chump change compared to what been shoveled into the banks with no appreciable result.) “Ho, ho,” declared Boehner and a team of his snide henchpersons, “how many jobs is that going to create?” In fact, it could create a whole bunch of jobs. For artists. Back in the Great Depression, the WPA ensured the survival of a multitude of artists from Jackson Pollock to Woody Guthrie. A nation that denigrates art is a nation that’s lost it’s soul.
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aye aye.
wv: KYARITIC
$50 million for the NEA vs. $89 million for the crappy remake of 'Day The Earth Stood Still'.
The budget for the NEA should be about twenty times what it is. We could get that money by stripping the members of the last administration of their ill gotten gains and making them sewer cleaners.
Damn right aye aye
The purpose of Art is to make people think. The purpose of government is to make people not think. The purpose of money...well, let's leave that for now.
wv is "ludst" which rather speaks for itself
The National Endowments for the Arts also are huge for public radio,and public TV. Now,what would we do without that?
We would also lose things like those Ken Burns documentaries, which I love, a lot.
Man,the arts are always looked down upon,in times of struggle, and that's a real shame.
The WPA also was able to support photographers,so without that you wouldn't see the famous photos of the dust bowl,and the photos of
people who lived through the 1930's. That's when a lot of great photographers were working,like Walker Evans,Dorthea Lange,and Berenice Abbott. (great photos of New York City in the 40's)
A lot of their works are in the Library of Congress,now.
WPA means Works "Progress" Administration, and progress doesn't rhyme with Washington.
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