Re:Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?
by jberryman on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @09:46AM
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> Cowboys can pay for their own poetry
No idea what you're talking about. I'm assuming an utterly insignificant amount of government money went to something that looks at least superficially wasteful and now the right is shrieking about it when they have better things to do.
Has the right done anything else since Obama came into office?
Re:Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?
by anamax on Thursday February 16, 2012 @01:10AM
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Objections to the National Endowment for the Arts predate Obama.
> Has the right done anything else since Obama came into office?
Yup, plenty.
Are you going to claim that everything Obama has done is peachy keen?
I note that the Dem senate hasn't bothered to pass an Obama budget. That takes 51 votes, which the Dems have. They all voted against the last one. They probably won't even bother to schedule a vote on this one.
As to grant-supported "artists", they've entered the political sphere. That has consequences.
And, very little of it is art, let alone deserving of tax money. (Cowboys can pay for their own poetry and so can rich people.)