Wednesday - December 01, 2004

Another Agency That’s Outlived Its Usefulness

The past few days I’ve ranted and raved about how the UN needs to be abolished or how the ACLU needs to be shut down.

Well, here’s another one:  the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

What a useless piece of shit organization.  For the life of me I do not understand why we need to use taxpayer money to fund struggling artists.  Either their stuff is good enough that it merits attention on its own or the artists finds another job---like fry cook at McDonald’s (which, as far as I am concerned, is about the only things these morons are good for anyway.)

Think about all the bad art and statuary you’ve ever seen.  Almost all of it was paid for by taxpayer dollars.  You walk up to a public building and see a bunch of misshapen boulders arranged in the yard.  You think the quarry forgot those?  Nope!  Taxpayers probably paid $100,000 for some “artiste” to put them there and then write this three page thesis on what it represents (man’s inhumanity to rocks or some such shit.)

Read Bert Prelutsky’s view on the NEA. See if you don’t agree:

Almost every time you read about a community going berserk over an art exhibit that is either sheer pornography or re-creates the Christmas creche using animal blood and human excrement, you can rest assured it’s your tax dollars at work.

He goes on to describe how the taxpayers of Livermore, California got screwed by some dipshit artist who could not even spell.  To add insult to injury, they were stupid enough to pay her in full BEFORE she finished and then paid her MORE MONEY to come back and make corrections.

The point?  When it is other people’s money, few really care how it is spent and normal precautions like performance contracts, penalties for mistakes, etc. are never even introduced.

The NEA needs to be abolished.  I am tired of seeing shit and piss called “art” and doubly tired of having my taxpayer dollars responisble for it.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 12/01/2004 at 07:23 AM   
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