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Trump's budget cuts 100% of the National Endowment for the Arts
Posted on 3/15/17 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 3/15/17 at 9:58 pm
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President Trump's proposed budget would cut entirely the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities (NEA), according to a new report by The New York Times. Federal officials told The Times that the chairwoman of the arts endowment told her staff the news Wednesday. It was reportedly met with a mix of sadness and surprise.
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Posted on 3/15/17 at 9:59 pm to Jjdoc
Beautiful
Posted on 3/15/17 at 9:59 pm to Jjdoc
Guess we'll have to wait until 2024 for PissChrist 2.0
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:00 pm to Jjdoc
That's very predictable. I mean do you see him or any of his Trumpkins having any appreciation whatsoever for the arts? The arts is as foreign to them as Nascar is to gays. 
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:01 pm to Jjdoc
It does seem like an unnecessary part of government, but I really wish somebody would come on and make every single governmental department, organization, and operation cut some percentage of their costs across the board--including defense and the entitlement organizations (the ones who are often untouchable).
It's all bloated, so let's make everbody trim it first.
It's all bloated, so let's make everbody trim it first.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:01 pm to Toddy
Good, no more paintings of bullshite.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:02 pm to Jjdoc
What, they'll have to earn it for themselves? We can't have any of this.
Let me be clear on this, zero endowments.
Next up?
Let me be clear on this, zero endowments.
Next up?
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:03 pm to Jjdoc
Amen! 
MAGA
MAGAPosted on 3/15/17 at 10:03 pm to Toddy
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I mean do you see him or any of his Trumpkins having any appreciation whatsoever for the arts?
My wife was a professional Cecchetti Ballerina. I have been to Broadway to see more production than you have fingers kid.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:04 pm to Toddy
The problem with liberalism is that it sees only government as a source for good. Thus, if someone wants to cut government funding for something, that must mean they hate it. The National Endowment for the Arts does some great work, as does NPR and PBS, and they deserve to be supported. However, they don't need the government to survive. Their works stand for themselves, and their donors will ensure that they keep operating. There is literally zero reason for the federal government to be funding them.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:04 pm to Jjdoc
It will never pass. NEA and things like pbs are massive tax write offs for corporations.
Just another trump lie.
Just another trump lie.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:04 pm to Toddy
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:04 pm to Jjdoc
I wanted to read a little more of what the NEA was all about.
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It seems like the budget for the NEA is only around $148M, which isn't much in comparison to the overall budget. And obviously, cutting this program will have a big impact on kids in the low end of the economic ladder.
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“[F]ar from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation,” Kennedy said of the arts, “it is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose — and is a test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.”
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It was President Lyndon Johnson who signed the law creating the National Endowment for the Arts, saying, “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.”
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Arts and culture contribute more than $700 billion to the national economy and employ nearly 5 million people.
It seems like the budget for the NEA is only around $148M, which isn't much in comparison to the overall budget. And obviously, cutting this program will have a big impact on kids in the low end of the economic ladder.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:05 pm to texag7
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texag7
Lol
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:05 pm to Jjdoc
Pre-2015 I always thought Trump was some pretentious douche who was genius at marketing his brand. I had no idea he was white trash.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:05 pm to Jjdoc
:nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: 
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:05 pm to Jjdoc
He should redirect every penny of that to youth arts education. Puts the Democrats in the position of opposing art and music programs for kids.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:05 pm to Jjdoc
$148 million. That's enough to pay about an hours interest on the national debt.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:07 pm to ellishughtiger
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Pre-2015 I always thought Trump was some pretentious douche who was genius at marketing his brand. I had no idea he was white trash.
Why can't art support itself in the private sector without taking my money via force of government?
Posted on 3/15/17 at 10:07 pm to kingbob
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The National Endowment for the Arts does some great work, as does NPR and PBS, and they deserve to be supported. However, they don't need the government to survive. Their works stand for themselves, and their donors will ensure that they keep operating. There is literally zero reason for the federal government to be funding them.
So, in you opinion, where do you draw the line between what should be funded by the federal government and what shouldn't?
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