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

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Ah, the standard leftist approach.

NOTHING can be cut because this other thing isn't being cut.

It renders actually having to defend funding moot which is good for lefties because they want to fund so much nonsense.

On it's own, there's no real logical reason to fund the NEA. Period.

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SO you are OK with sending your money to South Korea to fund the arts in South Korea but not OK with doing so in the US? Is that the idea? Why?

It isn't just the arts...why is GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Workers asked to reach into their pockets and send money to Korea so Hyundai can compete "on a level playing field"? It isn't about spending it is about where the spending is being done. It would seem that many on both sides of the aisle are of the opinion that it is far more important for the security of the United States for the people of South Korea to have jobs that afford them a basic standard of living in South Korea than it is for Americans to have the same thing in America. You seem to agree with this....

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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....

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I think we need to cut both.

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SO you are OK with sending your money to South Korea to fund the arts in South Korea but not OK with doing so in the US? Is that the idea? Why?

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SO let me check your logic. We should continue to waste the taxes of hard working Americans on crappy "art" in the U.S. because we waste tax dollars on crappy art in South Korea? All this instead of eliminating all possible government waste?

You sir have earned your libtard gold star for the day!

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SO let me check your logic. We should continue to waste the taxes of hard working Americans on crappy "art" in the U.S. because we waste tax dollars on crappy art in South Korea? All this instead of eliminating all possible government waste?

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Welcome to liberal logic where, if you are wasting money on X, it justifies wasting money on Y until you agree to cut both.

It's so stupid, it's painful.

Where in the Constitution does it authorize Congress to allocate spending on the arts?

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in the Constitution does it authorize Congress to allocate spending on the arts?

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Don't think you intended this response for me.

There are a lot of down votes throughout this thread. I wonder if they'll chime in so we can know why they believe the NEA deserves our tax $?

Fund NEA but mandate that they serve the sole purpose of creating a mural, approved by Trump, for the wall.

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I can see no justification for federal tax dollars going towards the National Endowment for the Arts. None.

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You find no great value in the "Piss Christ" work of Art?

Some Democrat bitch should make a "Piss Allah" work of Art because then we would have a follow-on Performance Art film on YouTube called "Piss Allah Guy Having His Head Sawed Off While He Dies Screaming".

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t's readily obvious that you recognize there are no actual arguments for spending money to fund the NEA.

Hence, your desperate need to bring in unrelated issues.

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You people aren't capable of understanding why the public has always funded the arts in civilized societies...otherwise you wouldn't support not funding the arts.

Apparently some of you do not understand mathematics either. You are all about cutting funding for the arts in the US but don't give a damn about your paying for the arts in Korea. Or Germany, or Japan, or anywhere else on the globe....you people are like a well trained guard dog...you are more than willing to eat kibble while your masters eat steak and pat you on the head as long as you are ready to pay for their steak and fight their wars for them.....


Here is an idea...you have me convinced you are a true conservative. Why not insist that South Korea foot the bill, in its entirety, to keep North Korea at bay? That would ne a helluva lot more money than what we are spending on the arts....but watch the right come in and poo-poo that idea....meanwhile US Workers and US Comapnies are forced to compete with workers and companies which exist only because of US Taxpayers and y'all whine and snivel about a free market...


There is a common meme that socialism and communism fails every time...yet it has worked like a champ in South Korea...the secret, apparently, to successful socialism, is to have another base of tax payers foot the bill....and then get them to pretend as if they believe in free markets...it is laughable...