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Nope. It could use reforms, but it should not be abolished in my opinion.
Hey TDS :2wave:
Would you mind providing your reasoning?
Dump the NEAI've heard many arguments, from both the left and the right, that the NEA should be abolished for a variety of reasons. Among them I have heard:
-it is wasteful,
-it turns art into cultural elitism,
-it subsidizes obscene and pornographic art
-it's unconstitutional.
-it only funds "politically correct" art.
What do you think? Should the NEA be abolished? If so, what should we replace it with if at all?
I've heard many arguments, from both the left and the right, that the NEA should be abolished for a variety of reasons. Among them I have heard:
-it is wasteful,
-it turns art into cultural elitism,
-it subsidizes obscene and pornographic art
-it's unconstitutional.
-it only funds "politically correct" art.
What do you think? Should the NEA be abolished? If so, what should we replace it with if at all?
The NEA’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget was $138,383,218. The NEA awarded 2,152 grants in nearly 16,000 communities in every Congressional district in the country. More than 38 million Americans, including seven million children and youth, attended a live arts event supported by the NEA. These events included approximately 70,000 concerts, readings, and performances and 1,600 exhibitions. Internationally, 74 U.S. professional arts organizations and more than 1,200 artists provided performances, exhibits, and other arts activities in 55 countries
The grants and assistance the the NEA provided to Art schools, art exhibits, musicians, etc, and artists themselves are too important just to throw away and be left entirely up to private hands. Sure it should be reformed to cover more areas of arts, (I personally think it should even help fund "controversial art"), and needs reform to cut down on their controversies but all in all I dont think it should be abolished.
If we were running a surplus that would be one thing. We are not so, dump it. Though on general principles it ought to be dumped anyhow. Its not the governments place to fund that.
If we were running a surplus that would be one thing. We are not so, dump it. Though on general principles it ought to be dumped anyhow. Its not the governments place to fund that.
Dump the NEA
Use the savings to pay down the debt, or invest it in by sealing off the Mexican border.
What kind of reforms would you propose? Countless reforms have been proposed and put into effect, what makes these different? Would you be open to it being done at a more local level? Is there a good reason for why it needs to be done at a federal level?
I've heard many arguments, from both the left and the right, that the NEA should be abolished for a variety of reasons. Among them I have heard:
-it is wasteful,
-it turns art into cultural elitism,
-it subsidizes obscene and pornographic art
-it's unconstitutional.
-it only funds "politically correct" art.
What do you think? Should the NEA be abolished? If so, what should we replace it with if at all?
What general principles?
............Though on general principles it ought to be dumped anyhow. Its not the governments place to fund that.
Dump the NEA
Use the savings to pay down the debt, or invest it in by sealing off the Mexican border.
Should We Abolish The NEA?
To me, I think you're walking down a path that can very quickly go in a very bad direction when the government is paying for art like that. It's not long before the government is deciding what is and isn't acceptable in art.
I've heard many arguments, from both the left and the right, that the NEA should be abolished for a variety of reasons. Among them I have heard:
-it is wasteful,
-it turns art into cultural elitism,
-it subsidizes obscene and pornographic art
-it's unconstitutional.
-it only funds "politically correct" art.
What do you think? Should the NEA be abolished? If so, what should we replace it with if at all?
As Redress pointed out, the NEA barely makes up .0036% of the federal budget. If your focus were truly on paying off the debt, wouldn't reducing the military budget, demilitarizing police, abolishing the DHS, etc. save much more money than removing an art program?
http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/2013-NEA-Annual-Report.pdf
Sounds like a pretty good value on the dollar. That budget is .0036% of federal spending(if I did the math right). If we cannot spend that small percentage of our overal spending on making the country and localities better places, we have major problems.
I've heard many arguments, from both the left and the right, that the NEA should be abolished for a variety of reasons. Among them I have heard:
-it is wasteful,
-it turns art into cultural elitism,
-it subsidizes obscene and pornographic art
-it's unconstitutional.
-it only funds "politically correct" art.
What do you think? Should the NEA be abolished? If so, what should we replace it with if at all?
As Redress pointed out, the NEA barely makes up .0036% of the federal budget. If your focus were truly on paying off the debt, wouldn't reducing the military budget, demilitarizing police, abolishing the DHS, etc. save much more money than removing an art program?
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