Especially when their average government paycheck and benefits are about three times the average paycheck of Mary and Joe Sixpack, who actually work and produce something for a living.
A trip down memory lane and our perverted government agencies
Is it not an irrefutable fact that the above mentioned federal agencies have openly participate in indoctrination, propaganda, and have used tax dollars to display sexual deviant behavior such as Andres Serrano’s anti-Christian bigotry called “P*** Christ”; Robert Mapplethorpe’s homosexual display called “The Perfect Moment”; Annie Sprinkle’s pornographic performances at a New York theater; Karen Finley, “the nude, chocolate smeared women”; Kyle Abraham’s “The Watershed and When the Wolves Came In” focusing on sexual identity; a 2016 festival for sexual deviant singing groups who appeared in a “flash mob” in Denver; taxpayer financing for a sexual deviant festival in San Francisco; funding for the Feminist Press at the City University of New York to digitize classic LGBT titles; an open mic group in D.C for story telling about “Queer Culture in America"; and the latest venomous and hateful smut on display financed by tax revenue being Shakespeare In Central Park depicting the violent murder of President Trump.
Our Founders were absolutely correct to limit Congress’ power to “… securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries” when promoting “… the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”
I take it you also have no problem with taxpayers’ forced to finance perverted public displays such as the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (1991).
The Incident: On April 17, 1991, Reverend Donald Wildmon wrote a letter to members of Congress attacking the NEA’s support for the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Wildmon called the decision to support the Festival “totally out of touch with the vast majority of American taxpayers.” In 1991, the NEA awarded a $12,000 grant to Frameline, a national gay media arts organization that produces the annual festival. NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer responded to the attack in an April 25 letter, writing, “Mr. Wildmon’s complaint, stripped of rhetoric, seems to be that he doesn’t believe federal funds should go to homosexuals… The Endowment does not blacklist nor does it give or refuse grants on the basis of sexual orientation.” He also made clear that in awarding this grant, the NEA did weigh a 1990 law requiring the Endowment to “take into consideration general standards of decency.” Wildmon’s attack on the festival was similar to one lodged in 1990 by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), who requested that the General Accouting Office review Frameline’s applications dating back to 1988. The GAO found that the awards complied with all applicable standards for receipt of federal funding.SOURCE
How about the following perverted public display put on by our sexual deviant crowd?
"We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming For Your Children"
There is NO QUESTION about it…the Department of Education should be recognized for the absolute wasteful spending it is, with little to no positive return and a large negative one. There should be federal testing that initiates funding but the act of educating our children, turned back over to the states.
“Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.”
Hopefully Trump will end taxpayers being enslaved to fund this smut.
With thousands of things that should be cut, you can be sure that no matter how many things DO get cut, someone will be out there saying, “What the hell… Why didn’t he cut …”
As long as the ball gets rolling, I’ll be happy with the first steps.
As I have demonstrated, there is good cause to end federal funding to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.
Not only do both fund obscene and pornographic activities, but there is no power delegated to Congress to tax and finance the perverted activities which both have been financing for decades. And that is in addition to the obvious and self-evident abridgement of “freedom of speech” and unequal law which takes place when government finances the speech and activities of some at the expense of others.
Federal funding of the “arts” has given rise to a self-evident abridgement of “freedom of speech” and unequal law in that government uses its taxing power to tax A, and then arbitrarily and at government discretion hands this revenue over to B which allows B to spread and broadcast his/her expressions, opinions and feelings in a more forceful manner than A, who has been taxed, even if A finds B’s expressions, opinions and feelings offensive and abhorrent.
Are we to forget the wise words of Thomas Jefferson who stated the following? ”That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. . .”
And, are we to forget what our Supreme Court has stated? “To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen [a working person’s earned wage] and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, [for the production of their “art”] to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation.”____ Savings and Loan Association v.Topeka,(1875).
And with respect to the above mentioned spending, Representative Page’s words, spoken on Feb.7th, 1792 elaborates on the suffering we now experience by our Constitution being subverted.
"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.” SEE: Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Rep Page (enter 194 in the small box at the top of the page)
Ya know you gotta run it like how the Soviet Union ran grocery stores. You have someone who checks your ration card at the door. You have a guy for each aisle that gets what you need and puts it into your buggy. Then you need another guy to recheck your ration card when you get to the register. Then you have both a cashier and a bagger to bag your items and place them into your buggy. Then finally one last guy to recheck your ration card as you leave the store.