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| photo by Randy Robertson / flickr |
The headline in our local paper read:
“Cost of Arts Funding Cuts”
Just think what this will mean...
more money for
Benghazi investigations...
more money to sue
the president...
more money to bring
home the boys and girls in boxes...
more money for tax
breaks for millionaires...
more money to
dismantle health care for all...
more money for
drones...
more money for
planes and tanks we won’t use...
more money for
Homeland Security...
Just think what it will mean...
no Christmas celebrations
on PBS...
no luxury items like
The Messiah...
no art programs for
kids in poor counties...
no Arts
Commissions...
no Symphonies...
no theatres...
no gatherings on
Main Streets for Arts fairs...
no “Best Christmas
Ever” in local communities...
no bands for
football games...
no Christmas wreaths
lining the streets...
no imagination and
creativity...
no new books for
libraries...
no scholarships for
the gifted in arts.
T.S. Eliot may have had it right:
“And the wind will say:
‘Here were decent
godless people
Their only monument
the asphalt road
And a thousand lost
golf balls.’”
--T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock
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| photo by John 'K' / flickr --RogerLovette / rogerlovette.blogspot.com (You might want to read Paul Hyde's telling article in The Greenville News about proposed cuts in the arts.) |
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