[Boiling point]

Talk about welfare for the rich! N.E.A. Is nothing but funding to allow the rich to indulge their hobbies at the expense of the taxpayers. At least that is what the left will call it now that a republican wants to fund it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Talk about welfare for the rich! N.E.A. Is nothing but funding to allow the rich to indulge their hobbies at the expense of the taxpayers. At least that is what the left will call it now that a republican wants to fund it.

The dirty little secret about the NEA (arts) is that it is a well-spring of patronage jobs for the wives of the power elite (which in this case, sadly, are the Republicans -- the party that used to stand for limited government).