Your tax dollars at work: National Science Foundation gives $700K grant to theater company

Washington Examiner ^ | 10/6/10 | Mark Hemingway

[Nachum]

One in 10 Americans are out of work, and this how the National Science Foundation is spending your money: The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to the Civilians, a New York theater company, to finance the production of a show about climate change. “The Great Immensity,” with a book by Steven Cosson (“This Beautiful City”) and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), tells the story of Polly, a photojournalist who disappears while working in the rain forests of Panama. The grant is a rare gift to an arts organization from the foundation

[Mr. K]

And they took $700,000 out of production in the private sector to produce...nothing

[Paine in the Neck]

This is propaganda not science.

[NonValueAdded]

Almost as bad as selling The Babe.

[ridesthemiles]

Straight out of “Atlas Shrugged”.