Trump Proposes Eliminating National Endowments For Arts And Humanities

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published MARCH 16, 2017, 9:59 AM EDT

In his budget blueprint released on Thursday, President Donald Trump proposed completely eliminating the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.

The endowments have long been targets of conservatives, but Trump is the first President to call for their elimination entirely.

The NEA had been under threat in the 1980s, under President Ronald Reagan, and again in the 1990s under President George H.W. Bush. In the 1990s, Republicans were aghast that the Corcoran Gallery funded a provocative project by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and lawmakers successfully restricted the NEA's grant making process.

The NEA and NEH have been funding targets as recently as 2014, when Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who now serves as speaker of the House, called for their elimination in his 2015 budget.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nea-neh-eliminated-trump-budget-blueprint

[chelsea0011]

1. He has a very demented vision for this country.

[Botany]

2. How many children who feel lost "find themselves" when they are exposed to the arts,

music, reading, the humanities? The cruelness and short sightness of this move is too big for
my brain to understand.

WTF is the matter w/these people? Taking away finger painting from kids in order to
spend more on the military and for that stupid wall.

[Bayard]

3. Art Appreciation

Guess this asshole skipped that class.

I'm a life-long art student, so maybe I'm biased. But the arts are one of the few finer things left in this world. I believe these funds cover not only fine art, but also music and dance. So you'll see museums closing if not for large private endowments? Cartoons are the only art kids will ever experience? When I was in grade school going to a poor school in KY, we still went once a month to the Louisville Orchestra--free of charge. Never see that happening now.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Cause after all, real art is casinos and broads, right?

What's next, selling off art collections to CEOs at pennies on the dollar?

[pangaia]

5. Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You,

Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science

Psychological studies continue to uncover more and more benefits that music lessons provide to developing minds. One incredibly comprehensive longitudinal study, produced by the German Socio-Economic Panel in 2013, stated the power of music lessons as plain as could be: "Music improves cognitive and non-cognitive skills more than twice as much as sports, theater or dance." The study found that kids who take music lessons "have better cognitive skills and school grades and are more conscientious, open and ambitious." And that's just the beginning.

1. It improved your reading and verbal skills.
2. It improved your mathematical and spatial-temporal reasoning.
3. It helped your grades.
4. It raised your IQ.
6. It made you a better listener, which will help a lot when you're older.
7. It will slow the effects of aging.
8. It strengthened your motor cortex.
9. It improved your working memory.
10. It improved your long-term memory for visual stimuli.
11. It made you better at managing anxiety.
12. It enhanced your self-confidence and self-esteem.
13. It made you more creative.

https://mic.com/articles/110628/13-scientific-studies-prove-music-lessons-were-the-best-thing-your-parents-did-for-you#.Kfll4CPAK

[FakeNoose]

14. Yes

[pangaia]

15. Having been a musician for 63 years, I'm a bit partisan..

but I also don't have to do no darn study to know all that.

I've read studies about the positive effects of listening to Mozart. Well I have been playing and listening to Mozart for-- maybe 60 years.

As you can tell, I turned out to be a well-balanced, brilliant, sensitive, creative, genius.

It's Wagner that has messed me up!!


LOL!!!

[hibbing]

6. Art

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Picasso



Peace

[Marthe48]

7. the budget is an insult

to all Americans. As a country, we have always had more to offer than cannon fodder and weapons. This budget defines all Americans as war-mongering abettors. That ridiculous p.o.s. simply doesn't see us as dimensional and unique.

[Wuddles440]

8. The Arts are what gives life....

its color, beauty, romance, passion, emotion, and makes it worth living in this world. Eliminating such creates a very gray and dark palette for our existence, but those knuckle-dragging, neanderthals masquerading as "representatives of the people" seem to lust for such a dystopian future.

[LanternWaste]

9. Annual NEA budget of $146 million will be exceed by the cost of securing Trump...

Annual NEA budget of $146 million will be exceed by the cost of securing Trump tower in NYC for four years which will be app. $200 million (more if he actually stayed there).

[Sunlei]

10. PBS, Republicans want to cut. the 20 million grant they get will go to a mile of overpriced wall.

$20,000 for mile of concrete wall built by "no cost to Contractor American prison slaves", 19.9 million as profit for contractor.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. He thinks art is his 30 year old likeness painted on velvet.

[YOHABLO]

12. I'd rather look at Mapplethorpe's art than Trumps garish and tasteless properties.

[rtracey]

13. the thing about this

This really pisses me off more then anything. As a working artist, I am just over my head pissed, and knowing VP Pense's wife is a working artist too, make me even MORE PISSED that she isn't raising a shit stink over this....

[klook]

16. "Here's an equation for you to chew on"

From Willard Jenkins, writer and arts administrator:

Here's an equation for you to chew on: Are you aware that the cost of security for 45s wifey and son to remain living in Trump Tower - as opposed to the White House, where all First Families are royally supported by the American people, will annually exceed the entire annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities COMBINED!

The White House released its proposed budget to Congress today, officially recommending full termination of funding of both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for FY2018. This is the first American President in history to propose zeroing out all funding for the nation’s federal cultural agencies.

Eliminating the NEA would be a devastating blow to the arts in America. For more than 50 years, the NEA has expanded access to the arts for all Americans, awarding grants in every Congressional district throughout all 50 states and U.S. Territories as well as placing arts therapists in 12 military hospitals to help returning soldiers heal from traumatic brain injuries. The NEA is also an economic powerhouse, generating more than $600 million annually in additional matching funds and helping to shape a $730 billion arts and culture industry that represents 4.2% of the nation’s GDP and supports 4.8 million jobs.

The federal appropriations process does not end here. We now begin a concerted grassroots effort to convince Congress to #SaveTheNEA. Here are the actions you can take right now:

1. The most important thing you can do is to take two minutes to send a customizable message to your elected representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose any attempt to eliminate or cut funding to the NEA.

2. Post on Facebook and Twitter to help rally national support to save the NEA. There is strength in numbers and your social media friends can help.

- https://www.facebook.com/willard.jenkins1