The Washington Post sneers at the art stimulus

Leave it to the Washington Post in its so far relentless quest to uphold the nightmarish status quo of the 2000's by launching a lengthy attack on the idea of including arts money in the stimulus. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031202765.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 So far the commenters have ranged from the helpful (hire artists to offer arts programs to kids after the school day but before the parents get off work) to the loony (Stalinism! Cuba! Obama wants a Soviet USA!). Here's hoping people get a grip -- the art funding is going out very soon, courtesy of an expedited (some would say amphetamined) granting process, it's going all over the country to all disciplines, and it's a grand total of .00625% of the stimulus package.

I'm waiting for the neurologists to identify that sector of the brain which causes 40% of Americans to foam at the mouth when the words art, money and government appear in the same context.

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