Kennedy Center Tells Musicians It Will Stop Paying Them Hours After $25 Million Bailout Is Signed

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 03/28/2020 | Bill McMorris

[Kid Shelleen]

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts informed members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they would no longer be paid just hours after President Trump signed a $25 million taxpayer bailout for the cultural center, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Nearly 100 musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3, according to an email from the orchestra's Covid-19 Advisory Committee.

"The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter," the email says. "Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3 and that we will not be paid again until the Center reopens."

[Kid Shelleen]

Trickle down entitlements don't work so good when you have a bunch of klepocrats running the show.

[9YearLurker]

I presume they will all go on the enhanced unemployment with an additional $600 per week.

[rktman]

Crap. I got laid off in 2011. Can I still apply?

[billorites]

Perils of a gig economy.

[butlerweave]

They have to Donate all of it to Nancy and her Demonuts

[MtnClimber]

Why do they need musicians when they are handed money for nothing?

[Bonemaker]

Of course they won’t be paid. The board gets their skim and the rest goes to the DNC.

[TexasGator]

“Can I still apply?”

Yes.

But I doubt you will be approved.

[dfwgator]

Why do they need musicians when they are handed money for nothing?

The little faggot got his own jet airplane.

[ResponseAbility]

****Trickle down entitlements don’t work so good when you have a bunch of klepocrats running the show.****

Just another slush fund.

[dfwgator]

Massie was Right!

[UnwashedPeasant]

"John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts"

Welfare for aristocrat hobbies, funded by real Americans working 3 jobs.

[Robert DeLong]

And they get their chicks for free? 8>)

[kennedy]

Well duh! They couldn’t tell the musicians that they would stop paying them before the bill was signed because they might not have gotten their $25 million in slush funds.

[timestax]

bttt

[timestax]

Yep. No way the dictator governors and mayors are giving up their total control. No way. They love it. They said “State of Emergency” and took power. There will always be sick people so this “state of emergency” will never end.

Yep !

[rktman]

Then I’ll take my toilet paper and go home.

[9YearLurker]

I’ll confess, I’ve been through the process and have no idea where they draw the line!

[sport]

And yep again!

[dfwgator]

Welfare for aristocrat hobbies, funded by real Americans working 3 jobs.

"Only three jobs? Why those lazy lima beans."