Posted on 01/23/2011 8:38:15 PM PST by redk
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Some Upstate art groups are outraged after Gov. Nikki Haley called for an end to funding the South Carolina Arts Commission in her first State of the State address.
"To take all of that away ... from all the arts organizations in the state, I think its catastrophic," said Alan Ethridge of the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville.
Ethridge said many arts organizations, especially in rural areas, will struggle to survive without funding from the Arts commission.
"Without them providing funding to schools and artists who work in schools and to artists-in-residence, I think art education will suffer," he said.
Haley said the state's budget situation requires the legislature to make cuts to anything that is not a "core function" of South Carolina government.
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Oh me! Oh my! What is the Chablis wine and Brie Cheese Crowd going to do now at Spoleto?
I say cut it. Cut it all. We aren’t a bunch of freeloaders and don’t need it especially during these times.
What, my stolen taxes will no longer fund Jesus in a bottle of urine of Mary made out of feces?
“I say cut it. Cut it all. We aren’t a bunch of freeloaders and don’t need it especially during these times.”
I agree. It’s such a straw-man argument when people say “but you can’t cut funding, we need the arts, waaaahhh”. Yes, the “arts” are great, go ahead and make some art then, whose stopping you?
If you are going bankrupt, the frivolous gets cut first. Art, or what they call art these days is highly frivolous.
Oops I see you corrected yourself already.
Yeah, I bet that went over real well with the Catholic Gov. Haley.
I’d like to see this lady run for president some day. Maybe she’ll have the clout to defund the NEH, the NEA and the CPB. Eventually, maybe we’ll even get around to closing the Department of Education and the Department of Energy.
Ping!
Good news. There is no reason for government to be funding any type of art.
If companies and rich folks (or even poor folks) want to donate to the arts, I think it’s still tax deductible. Let the artists lobby businesses for support, but to get it they are probably going to need to turn out actual ART art, not airy fairy fartsy stuff.
That’s a thing you’d expect royalty to do. America, however, does not have a royalty-based government.
Was there not a time when artists had to demonstrate talent in order to attract “Patrons?” I it’s high-time we return to that fine, old tradition!
“artists-in-residence” equals taxpayer-paid Democrat activist.
Your own money used to organize against you.
Hopefully it’s my only DUH of the day.
I started thinking Nikki, and I ended up implying Haley. LOL
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