re: Political cartoon about eliminating funding for the National Endowment for the Arts

Yes indeed...end the tax payer subsidization of the arts but continue our subsidization of the arts in foreign nations....that's the ticket. Not a one of you will agree to end that subsidization though, will you? Because ending that subsidy would mean a serious cut in military spending and we can't have that....

You Tax Dollars at Work Abroad

If you don't buy into the idea that Germany has more money to spend on things like the arts because you provide them with national security how about...

"Today, Korea has a strong arts infrastructure—arts agencies, university arts programs, performing arts companies, and festivals— that has surprisingly little visibility outside the region. In 2010, Korea’s central government spent approximately 5.7 percent — $56 per capita — on culture through its Ministry of Culture, about a quarter of which went specifically to the arts. The local government spends twice as much. In recent years, arts and culture in Korea is the one category of spending to enjoy an increasing proportion of government budget allocations, a trend mirrored in few other national budgets."

Hyundai? Samsung? Anyone?

We are all about cutting domestic spending so we can spend more to make certain Hyundai and Samsung are in a position to provide jobs to Koreans so we can prove...as if there is any doubt...that communism does not work...


But in all honesty...is cutting out sesame street more important to you than asking that South Korean giants like Hyundai and Samsung pay for their own defense? I just do not get how anyone can square that circle.....