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Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts [$15 million to $20 million for NEA]
New York Times ^
| January 29, 2004
| ROBERT PEAR
Posted on 01/28/2004 8:29:35 PM PST by yonif
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To: Map Kernow
Yeah, too bad the INS couldn't do what the IRS does every day of the week.There's a big difference between a tax cheat and a business owner staying in business. Let the government worry about immigration, not our business owners. They're busy enough just trying to stay in business. They don't have the investigative resources to fight the immigration struggle.
If y'all want a illegal alien amnesty so bad, what donchall talk 'bout a tax amnesty first.
Tancredo wants to employ foreign workers too, why is his plan not an amnesty if Bush's is? Tax cheats intend not to pay their fair share, illegal immigrants did what a lot of people would do for a better life, including me. It's up to us to keep them out. If I were born in Mexico, I wouldn't stay there.
Then we'll believe all your hand-wringin' and a-cryin' 'bout them po' scofflaw employers who got rooked by them crafty Messicans with their phoney ID and had to pay a dadburn FINE over it!!!
They are not immigration agents. Leave the governing to the government when it comes to a activity where you have to check backgrounds and verify paperwork.
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posted on
01/29/2004 12:41:16 AM PST
by
#3Fan
To: Texasforever; MJY1288
Well, gee, I went to bed early last night and missed all the fireworks. Darn.
Here is my take on this, for what it's worth:
Perhaps President and Mrs. Bush think that perhaps Shakespeare and symphonies for small towns and rural areas would offer a contrast to the MTV culture and would elevate the aspirations of kids in those areas. Perhaps they feel that this nation's commercial entertainment industry is destroying the public's appreciation of the great inheritance we all share in the arts of Western Civilization.
And just maybe they are doing this because it seems to them to be the right thing to do.
They can make up this money by cutting some other program, and probably will. Since the budget is essentially flat in all non-defense and security areas, I imagine that is what is was done.
To: ambrose
Your examples(mapplethorpe etc.etc.) were all funded during the Reagan administration.
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posted on
01/29/2004 2:03:31 AM PST
by
Dane
To: rwfromkansas
He has now pissed off the social conservatives. NOT a good move How has he pissed off social conservatives? I din't know that Shakespere or a PBA ban was anti-Christian.
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posted on
01/29/2004 2:06:53 AM PST
by
Dane
To: over3Owithabrain
I don't know if you've noticed - but Bush still gets beat up every day on the education issue. This after playing kissy-face with Ted Kennedy and signing a $$$ whopper of an education bill. Yep, the demos got snookered they don't like the higher standards. Higher standards for schools is popular. Or are you against high standards for schools.
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posted on
01/29/2004 2:09:21 AM PST
by
Dane
To: Miss Marple
OR, maybe it is a nefarious plot to finally send the uber-conservatives into complete and utter tongue swallowing seizures.
To: over3Owithabrain
Bush is flicking his middle digit square at moral conservatives with this move Well let me say the "the truest of the true conservatives" seem to have a penchant for drama queen antics.
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posted on
01/29/2004 2:11:58 AM PST
by
Dane
To: Finalapproach29er
Leaders teach, persuade people. This made Reagan great That's why there is still a Dept. of Education(which Reagan said he would get rid of) correct. Or that Reagan raised taxes.
Reagan was a great president, but he is human and not a God as some on FR make him out to be.
Reagan would also agree with my immediate above sentence, IMO.
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posted on
01/29/2004 2:15:49 AM PST
by
Dane
To: Texasforever
I don't suggest this site to many people anymore, unless I am certain they understand the high number of grumps on this board, and what their motives are.
Anyway, I think it will be interesting to see what this proposal exactly is, and I don't think it is a bad thing.
To: Dane
How has he pissed off social conservatives?What is more relevant is why "moral" conservatives use "pissed off" instead of angered.
To: Texasforever
Now THAT's a good point!
To: yonif
Somewhere, some fisherman is going out into the North Alantic, and this trip will be to pay taxes. And he will get killed. A truck-driver, exhausted from a year on the road will drive one more ten dayer, and will nod off from fatigue, and kill himself and maybe others. A small businessman will, at his office late at night, trying to find the money to keep is business going and not lay any one off, and pay his taxes, will have a hart attack from the stress. All of this for just a little more taxes. Every day, every year and none, including Bush could give a fig.
That's why I hate taxes. Screw Bush.
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posted on
01/29/2004 3:46:00 AM PST
by
Leisler
(Whatever it is you're doing, it's illegal now.)
To: Joe Hadenuf
THe single issues are multiplying like cancer.
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posted on
01/29/2004 3:49:38 AM PST
by
RiflemanSharpe
(An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
To: RiflemanSharpe
Actually, there is only ONE isssue, and that is the destruction of the Bush presidency by those who oppose him for a variety of reasons. This is just the latest gripe for you guys to hang your hats on.
To: Miss Marple
I don't suggest this site to many people anymore, unless I am certain they understand the high number of grumps on this board, and what their motives are.Thanks for giving me my morning chuckle. BTW, it's not the grumps, it's the tag-team bullying and domineering that have hurt the level of discourse on the forum.
To: Miss Marple
Actually, there is only ONE isssue, and that is the destruction of the Bush presidency by those who oppose him for a variety of reasons. This is just the latest gripe for you guys to hang your hats on.
He is destroying it himself, by embracing all these liberal causes and spend thrift policies.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:11:25 AM PST
by
RiflemanSharpe
(An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
To: Miss Marple
Is there ANY leftist tripe your won't shill for from this president?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:17:45 AM PST
by
OWK
To: PureSolace
where's all this money gonna come from?Your pocket.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:19:18 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: HHFi
I like theater and real music, and am bored out of my mind by sports, yet I'm told that taxes shouldn't support struggling arts companies, but they should support billionaire sports team owners and their millionaire players. How about a little intellectual consistency?Good point, how about NEITHER ONE being supported by taxpayers?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:20:36 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: yonif
It's the principle of the thing, Mr. President. Not the amount.
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