While some Americans are just short of starving, our elected officials give millions to the NEA. What an embarrasment our current politicians are.
Puppeeters didnt do badly, either: The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta received $50,000, while the Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research in Vermont and the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia both received $25,000, all to preserve administrators and puppeteers.
The NEA also covered the ethnicity requirement: The Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance received $50,000 to preserve its directors position, as did Chicagos Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, which used the money to retain a collections manager and an exhibition coordinator. Radio Bilingue, Inc. received $25,000 to hold onto the host of the La Hora Mixteca Radio Program.
The Mixtecs are native to Oaxaca, Mexico.
My kids are doing without but I’m expected to support adults playing with dolls???
The NEA was created in 1965. Can anyone name a genre of art that has been better post-1965 than pre-1965?
I am a playwright myself on the side. For my last produced play, I put in at least a thousand hours of work between the writing and the production details. In the end, I ended up making about $100 profit. But it’s a labor of love, and I was delighted to earn it honestly and without any NEA money. Why should anyone be forced to support my hobby? The very idea is un-American.
If you like my plays, come see them and tell your friends and I’ll be glad to take your money. If you don’t, don’t see them and I’ll have to write better plays or accept that I will be working for free. But nobody is forcing me to write, and nobody should force anyone to work and pay taxes on my behalf.
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