Republicans have tried unsuccessfully to reduce, abolish, and privatize various government programs for decades. After years of failure, staffers for President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced that they will slash several government departments.
The Hill reported that Trump was determined to reduce the departments of Commerce, Energy, and Justice. He’s also set out to privatize Public Broadcasting, and abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for Humanities.
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While art is very important, the NEA is not. It’s more or less welfare for cultural elitists who use funds to give grants to already profitable institutions. Many of them could survive on their own like the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Academy Award’s museum, or well-off artists who promote their political agenda.
Here are just five of the worst example projects the NEA funded with taxpayer dollars:
An art exhibit about a post-border America, entitled “Mixed Feelings: Art and Culture in the Postborder Metropolis.”
A play centered around Michael Brown’s shooting using the false narrative that he said, “hands up, don’t shoot.”
The NEA used $10,000 to fund a children’s musical called “Zombies in Love,” which exemplifies what it feels like to be an outsider.
A pansexual performance series in San Francisco entitled “Perverts Put Out.”
There was also $20,000 of federal funds used for a Fort Worth, Texas production of stilt dancers in the Afro-Caribbean tradition accompanied by a Mexican artist.
If there’s really a demand for this kind of art across the country than all the proud Hollywood liberals that love to hate Trump including Meryl Streep, Lena Dunham, and Amy Schumer can open up their fat wallets and write a check.
