Tinseltown Zillionaires Demand Government Give Them Your Money
Even as the nation careens toward bankruptcy, and a jaw-dropping 40% of the our rogue government’s massive spending is financed by borrowing (i.e., stealing) from future generations, Obama and his Hollyweird friends call for still more of our money to be stuffed down frivolous rat holes like the National Endowment for the Arts:
Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, the premiere lobbying org for arts groups, [is] encouraged by President Obama’s request to increase funding for the NEA to $155 million, restoring it to the level before last year’s budget standoffs, when it was slashed to $146 million. …
Last week, Lynch and Stanley Tucci, on the cusp of the opening of “The Hunger Games,” appeared before a House subcommittee on Capitol Hill to press for the budget increase. On April 16 and 17, a number of industry figures will trek to Washington to participate in a series of lobbying events, including the Americans for the Arts’ annual Nancy Hanks Lecture at the Kennedy Center, to be given this year by Alec Baldwin and featuring a performance by Ben Folds.
Bizarrely, moonbats claim that flushing money down the NEA magically creates wealth (“For every dollar that the NEA invests, four come back,” gibbers Charles Segars, cochair of the lobbying event Arts Advocacy Day), even while admitting that the point is to fund projects that make no economic sense because so few people have any use for them.
The idea that zillionaire leftists like Alec Baldwin put up some of their own cash instead of demanding the government expropriate ours has apparently not been considered.
On a tip from Nobody. Hat tip: Free Republic.
Marvelous plan. Well since it returns 4 times as much as it spends, why not give the NEA 16 trillion dollars, and we will soon be on our way to a 32 trillion dollar federal budget surplus. 16 times 4 = 64 minus the 16 given it, minus the existing 16 trillion dollar US deficit will leave us with 32 trillion left over, such a deal. By the way, I have invented a perpetual motion machine to solve the energy crisis. Would you like to invest Mr. Baldwin?
Y’know, I sorta remember the Republicans promising to get rid of the NEA. Instead, the INCREASED funding
Wha-what happened?
Not one penny to that cespool called the NEA. If “art” can’t make it on it’s own, the “art” will just have to do what the rest of us poor, un”endowed” (if you’ll pardon my saying so) peons do…WORK FOR IT.
Actors and the studios certainly should be able to pony up enough of their profits to provide the NEA with a measly 155 million.
In fact, they could levy a “tax” of one million dollars on every movie…you know, just one of the costs of doing business. Who could object to that? Even Michael Moore would agree to throwing in a little into the “pot.”
Have you seen oil prices? The Hollywood elite has to offset the price of jet-A somehow.
Austin, TX also gives these people millions. The “official” claim is that it is an investment that draws commerce, so pays for itself many time over.
Bullshit. It’s a freaking shakedown. It’s liberal Hollywood thugs shaking down towns/states. “You want your town/city/state in the big lights? You gotta pay big!” It’s just another communist racket. Hawaii wastes BIG bucks in subsidization of the show “5-O” just as they did “Lost”. These shows are subsidized with taxpayer money. Tax payers in Hawaii PAY to watch those shows.
They’re all crooks.
“For every dollar that the NEA invests, four come back,” gibbers Charles Segars, cochair of the lobbying event Arts Advocacy Day),
Well this is odd.
Didn’t Solyndra make that same argument ?
But I bet funding the arts does NOT create jobs faster than funemployment does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAG3Fqz56s
Alec Baldwin is another Hollywood hypocrite, who is on my s–t list. I refuse to watch any movie or TV program that features him in it. I am voting with my pocket book. Same goes for Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman.
I agree with you Jeff. Sadly, the American people are not smart enough, nor strong enough, to realize how much power they actually have. All they need do is contact the companies the above phonies pimp for and tell them their products will be boycotted because of those who represnt them. Because they are all insatiably greedy, you would see “instant” change!
They can also cancel their cable, cancel their Netflix, cancel their satellite TV, stop buying DVDs/CDs, and stop going to the movies.
The jet-set moonbattery will wither away without the truckloads of cash sent to Hollywood by Middle America.
Just think of buying a DVD or paying your cable bill as another line of coke up some spoiled actress’s nose. That entertainment product you worked hours to pay for will be consumed by some zillionaire Hollywood moonbat in about 200 milliseconds.
Defund it. Kill your TV. You’ll feel better.
It’s bad enough they rot our culture. We don’t have to pay for their crap.
These are the same idiots that scream about oil company “subsidies” which are actually tax deductions – far from “subsities”. Yet they demand subsities for the crap they produce, which is unable to stand on its own, and most people in this country have no use for, unlike oil, which we all need. Backwards assholes.
“For every dollar that the NEA invests, four come back”
I’ve concluded, as most of you probably have, that liberals pull statistics straight out of their a$$e$. They make them up and feed them to their useful idiots and their minions in the press, who then propagate them ad infinitum. (Kinda like climate “research” findings.) Why bother with the drudgery of doing actual research or even validating your sources, when it’s so much more effective and self-satisfying to just make $hit up?
Wow. Think about that for a second. For every dollar they invest, four come back. Good!
Invest a dollar, get four back. Now invest those four, sixteen come back. Now invest the sixteen, sixty-four come back. You get the picture. Before you know it you’ll get back over the $155 million you’re begging for. So shut the fuck up and have a shitty day. Morons.
If you dopes invested the $146 million from last year, you’d have $584 million now. It’s a money machine. Stop smoking so much dope. It’s really affecting your thinking.