The First Ever Recession in Washington DC is Coming!

But why is the Federal Government in the charity business? That's not it's responsibility especially when it can't pay it's bills.

Private organizations/charities need to perform those services for poor battered woman and others in need? If not, then why stop with poor battered woman. You have to keep going and help everyone who can't help themselves.

 

Civilization isn't free. Do you want to live in one that's completely ad-supported? I don't.

If government can't pay its bills, maybe it should stop bending over backwards to give tax cuts to people who don't fly coach.

 

Well people working working at wal mart are being subsidized by the US government since they make so little and get crappy benefits.

 

You can cut budget while still maintaining productivity. It is called efficiency and people and business in the US do it every day. Expecting some government offices to run exactly the same, but with 10% less budget can be done. Let go the least productive workers, retain the highest productive workers. Demand more for less.

 

lol, good luck.

 

Government employees don't work like employees in the private sector and I highly doubt you could get them to. Half the reason you get a government job in the first place is so that you won't have to do very much to earn your pay.

 

Like others have said we have a spending problem not an income problem and we're already overtaxed as it is. Charity works although not all of them are as efficient as they should be.

 

The NE?, we have Eric Begosian, The NEA funded the competition to find the designer of the American Vietnam War Memorial, The American Ballet Company, The Joffrey Ballet company, Prairie Home Companion, The Louisiana State University Press which got Confederacy of Dunces published, and the list goes on.

Whether govt. funding of the arts would still exist in some way is contrary to the point that we need more funding of the arts, and not less.

 

I can't wait for my government to be run like Wal-Mart. That's going to be awesome. Food stamps for everyone.

 

The American Vietnam War Memorial was funded privately with donations, the NEA might have put up some small amount of money to fund a competition to pick the designer, but given how easily it was privately funded by over 250,000 people, there was no real reason for them to do so.

I'm sure if I looked into the rest of your list, I would find similar situations where there are relatively small donations by the NEA on top of private donations making up the bulk of their funding......and also, I haven't really heard any great work of art that has come as a result of the NEA funding that wouldn't exist if that funding came from elsewhere.

Interestingly enough, I did look into the American Ballet Theatre (you call it the American Ballet Company) and I found that they have an annual budget of just north of 48.2 million dollars and the total amount they get from government sources is $470,440.....so yeah, probably shouldn't be on the list either.

 

This isn't cutting fat, it's giving the left a middle finger. These cuts is like using a bucket to drain an ocean.

 

Never will happen, we're going to throw more money away on building a bigger military even though we are getting beat in cyber warfare, and Trump is going to send his hair to the money with the money he saved by spending 15 minutes trying to save 15 cents on cutting programs for women and minorities - the two groups he hates the most.

 

at least it's a start and a whole lot better than pouring more water into the ocean especially when you 'aint got no more water left

 

What is considered PROFIT for a Government is quite different than for a business.
Business Profit is measured in money
Government profit is measured in the well being and happiness of its people.

I don't think many people understand that . . . .

Rocket River

 

You have no idea what you are talking about - unsurprisingly

 

Poor people clamoring to cut programs intended to enrich the lives of poor people? I LOVE IT!!

Seriously, OP, how much taxes do you pay? Do you even pay enough taxes to keep one F-22 in the air for one hour? Serious question.

 

So true. Every time I read someone talking about how government should be run more like business I cringe. The implication is that business is so efficient but businesses fail all the time, every day. Trump himself has BANKRUPTED four business. Run more like business. Yeah... you think that line at the DMV is long now, wait until Wal-Mart is running it.