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Poor Little Brandweiss
"Stimulus funding for arts hits nerve; Some doubt it would create jobs" by Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | February 5, 2009
WASHINGTON - The massive economic stimulus bill moving through Congress is being watched closely by arts groups across the country, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council. If the House version becomes law, the National Endowment for the Arts would get $50 million - and the council's federal funding would soar by nearly 50 percent.
While the NEA money is a minuscule portion of the $819 billion House bill, it has become a lightning rod for some critics, who question whether the dollars for the arts will create many jobs - and who see the money as a symbol of House Democrats trying to lard up the plan with spending wish lists that have been pent up for years.
The criticism has reached such a crescendo that some arts advocates are concerned that the push for the $50 million could backfire, reigniting a debate over the value of taxpayers funding everything from "poetry out loud" events to community theater.
NOPE! Jewish interests are always funded: Stimulus Bill is For Jewish Interests Only
William Ivey, who was the leader of President Obama's transition team on arts-related spending, said he has been troubled by comments suggesting "that an arts worker is not a real worker, and that a carpenter who pounds nails framing a set for an opera company is a less-real carpenter than one who pounds nails framing a house."
Ivey, a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said he asked the Obama administration during a meeting on Jan. 14 for several hundred million dollars in arts funding in the stimulus plan, but won backing only for the $50 million....
Why is the GOVERNMENT funding ART at all?
Talk about WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY!!!!
The NEA.... has made a comeback in recent years and the budget has gradually increased. The proposed additional $50 million - on top of $122 million already set aside in this year's budget for grants - would put the NEA in its strongest financial condition in years.
Pffft!
They don't pay off any mortgages bu thy are going to make sure Jewish artists are taken care of with YOUR TAX DOLLARS, shit-eating Amurkns!!
Advocates for the funding say there is a historical resonance to the proposal, reviving memories of the way President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported the hiring of thousands of artists, writers, painters, and photographers as part of the New Deal.
The more I find out about that piece of s***, the more I realize he was a traitor to America. And my state-schools hail him as a hero!
Dana Gioia, a poet who was NEA chairman until last month, recalled that when top Roosevelt aide Harry Hopkins was asked why the government wanted to hire so many artists and writers, he replied, "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people."
The ARROGANCE while SO MANY are SUFFERING in our nation is UNREAL!!!!!!
Gioia, reflecting on that comment, said, "As far as I've heard, nothing has changed about the dietary needs of artists."
Ha-ha-ha! Well, EAT SHIT like the rest of us, prick!!!!
.... The NEA cites Labor Department statistics showing that the unemployment rate across the broad range of arts-related occupations was 6 percent for the fourth quarter of 2008, about the same as the entire workforce, but that unemployment was far higher in some fields, including 46 percent among actors and 19 percent among dancers. The Labor Department says about 2 million people work in the arts, but advocacy groups put the figure several million higher.
Hey, tell Hollywood to give back the HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in TAX BREAKS THEY GOT from our state if they won't HIRE SOME ACTORS!!!
But opponents of the funding say that many groups of workers don't receive special funding. Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Cantor, said the provision "uses taxpayer dollars on NEA programs instead of common-sense tax relief targeted to revitalize small businesses and create jobs for middle-class families facing economic challenges" and "fails to meet the standard necessary to be included in an emergency economic recovery plan."
Yup.
Anita Walker, executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, disagreed, saying the funding is a vital component in helping to support 37,000 Bay State jobs in what she calls the "creative economy."
Like crosses in urine, huh? I've got a piece of artwork for you: PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT!
See? It's a BRIGHT, SHINY, BROWN LOG!
While Governor Deval Patrick has proposed cutting the council's budget by $600,000 to help close a budget deficit this year, the increased funding in the stimulus bill would provide $400,000, officials said.
The NEA's money is distributed in two main ways: 40 percent goes to the official arts agency in each state, and most of the rest is distributed in direct grants to artists and organizations around the nation. Under this formula, more than $800,000 goes to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which redistributes it, and a similar amount is given directly by the NEA to individuals and groups in the Bay State.
The federal funding in Massachusetts includes $30,000 to support Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre's recent production of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull."
Ooooooooh, THAT'S WHY the arts are funded: RICHERS like to go to PLAYS and such -- while you eat cable TV shit, 'murka!!!!
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That's why the ARTS are RELENTLESSLY PUSHED by the ZIONIST AGENDA-PUSHERS!
Even a criminal defacer is a hero to the "community."
"Street artist will get day in court for pasting up his art" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff and Casey Ramsdell, Globe Correspondent | February 8, 2009
Shepard Fairey is scheduled to face charges in a Boston courtroom tomorrow for allegedly pasting art without permission on two local sites that police discovered last month - one under the Boston University Bridge and the other above Storrow Drive.
Fairey was arrested Friday just as he was about to enter the Institute of Contemporary Art for a scheduled performance. The artist, who lives in Los Angeles, rose to national fame last year for creating the red, white, and blue image of Barack Obama emblazoned with the word HOPE, iconography that was adopted and popularized by campaign supporters.
Fairey's work is the subject of a new exhibit at the ICA, where he was scheduled to appear as a guest disc jockey at a sold-out event before he was arrested at 9:15 p.m. outside the Seaport District museum. The artist spent the night in a South End police lockup before being bailed out yesterday morning....
At the ICA, people attending the exhibit said they were surprised that Fairey was arrested. "It seems like police resources could be better spent than cracking down on public expression," said Adam Loreau, 26, who works in Boston....
Yeah, I guess the Boston's finest have better things to do -- when they ain't murdering some kid!
"Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial"
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And the mafia media stays with it, of course:
"Cultural acclaim, residents' anger; Artist's arrest points to a Boston divide" by Maria Cramer and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | February 10, 2009
While renowned artist Shepard Fairey was being feted around Boston in recent weeks, posing for pictures with Mayor Thomas M. Menino and preparing for his big opening night at the ICA, neighborhood groups around the city were seething.
In the days leading up to Friday night's opening, Boston Detective Bill Kelley said, he was getting more and more complaints from residents of the Back Bay, the North End, and Mission Hill, furious that a man who admitted to spreading graffiti - even bragged about it - was being treated like a celebrity instead of a criminal....
Yeah, HE'S a HERO!!!
The arrest and its timing, combined with Fairey's rise from counterculture icon to mainstream celebrity, have exposed anew some of Boston's oldest contradictions - between convention and revolution, between propriety and creativity, between the old order of places like the Back Bay and the new-moneyed donors to the ICA.
In its wake, it has left two unanswered questions: What is crime and what is art?
This guy's "art" is a crime!
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Fairey said the arrest was timed "in a way that was designed to create as much inconvenience for me and the museum as possible."
Yeah, sure it was (read on).
But Kelley said if that were his goal, he would have arrested Fairey inside the museum, before the more than 750 people who had gathered to see him. The point, he said, was to arrest an elusive scofflaw who had used different Social Security numbers and aliases to avoid capture.
Ooooh, so it WASN'T JUST the GRAFFITTI, huh?
"Ultimately who do I work for? I work for the community," Kelley said. "At the end of the day, we answer to the people. We ask these people to report the new graffiti crimes, document the graffiti crimes, then we're going to turn our back on them because a special interest group decides he's someone they're going to host?"
Finally, a GOOD COP in Massachusetts!!!!
Kelley said he went after Fairey that night because it was a scheduled event they knew he was certain to attend....
Translation: the kid artist is an idiot -- or arrogant!
Back to the agenda-pushing: Boston schools study urges more classes in the arts
So what happened to the $50 million, and why did the Globe try to hide it (worry about funding was on front page; this stuck way back in business section)?
"Mass. could get $11.7b from stimulus; High-speed rail gets boost" by Matt Viser and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | February 14, 2009
.... House and Senate lawmakers also agreed yesterday to keep a controversial House provision that provided $50 million to the National Endowment for the Arts. Some Republicans had said the money would not create enough jobs and tried unsuccessfully to shift the funds to road construction. But proponents prevailed in the effort to keep the money, which they said would help artists, actors, and others in the arts to keep their jobs or get new positions.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council would probably get about $400,000, which would be redistributed to various groups and artists, and a similar amount would be sent directly from the NEA to individuals and groups in the Bay State. The funding would help make up for a proposed $600,000 cut in the council's state funding.
"We're grateful that the president and Congress recognized that the arts are an important sector of our economy that is worth investing in," said Gregory Liakos, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Yeah, then SOLICITE PRIVATE FUNDS for it, not TAXPAYER DOLLARS to PROP UP RICHER ENJOYMENTS!!!!!
Where is MY GRANT, assholes?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
