All federal funding for media, the arts, and humanities needs to stop.
That's something you would not expect to hear from an historian (me). Let me explain why.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it." Never have George Carlin's words been more true than when it comes to federal grants. Most of these are supposed to go to small, community backed groups. They don't. They go to members of the club. A few examples from one year in my state:
A labor organizing group got $5000 to travel 200 miles and deliver a presentation on the history of organizing. They just happened to spend their time in the traveled to locale trying to organize illegal aliens. FYI, the trip and accommodations don't cost more than a few hundred dollars.
A communist group got $5000 to do a presentation on communism at a local library. I've done library presentations before. They cost me about $5 in gas.
A third tier theater group - "The Bitch Theatre" - got $5000 to perform "The Vagina Monologues" during the VM wave when every theater everywhere was doing the VM. The last thing the theatre world needed was another VM performance.
The connected leftists and establishment orgs get all the money. The big city art museum, symphony, and ballet get millions, but the smaller county libraries, historical societies and local theatres these grants were meant to support get ZERO. It's time to pull the plug on funding liberals.
All federal funding for media, the arts, and humanities needs to stop.
That's something you would not expect to hear from an historian (me). Let me explain why.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it." Never have George Carlin's words been more true than when it comes to federal grants. Most of these are supposed to go to small, community backed groups. They don't. They go to members of the club. A few examples from one year in my state:
A labor organizing group got $5000 to travel 200 miles and deliver a presentation on the history of organizing. They just happened to spend their time in the traveled to locale trying to organize illegal aliens. FYI, the trip and accommodations don't cost more than a few hundred dollars.
A communist group got $5000 to do a presentation on communism at a local library. I've done library presentations before. They cost me about $5 in gas.
A third tier theater group - "The Bitch Theatre" - got $5000 to perform "The Vagina Monologues" during the VM wave when every theater everywhere was doing the VM. The last thing the theatre world needed was another VM performance.
The connected leftists and establishment orgs get all the money. The big city art museum, symphony, and ballet get millions, but the smaller county libraries, historical societies and local theatres these grants were meant to support get ZERO. It's time to pull the plug on funding liberals.