more money from whom for what?!?!
from today's Times:
Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, administration officials said on Wednesday.
The proposal is part of a turnaround for the agency, which was once fighting for its life, attacked by some Republicans as a threat to the nation's moral standards.
Laura Bush plans to announce the request on Thursday, in remarks intended to show the administration's commitment to the arts, aides said.
Administration officials, including White House budget experts, said that Mr. Bush would propose an increase of $15 million to $20 million for the coming fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. That would be the largest rise in two decades and far more than the most recent increases, about $500,000 for 2003 and $5 million for this year.
Wow. Hooray for the NEA. Laura must be behind this one. The proposed increase would bring the budget to about $140 million, a welcome increase, but still a far cry from the Endowment's heydey in 1992, when they topped $170 million.
Even Clinton had a rough go at it during his administration, with people like Jesse Helms calling for drastic cuts and even the elimination of the Endowment. As the article points out, the budget was slashed, and remained at, roughly $100 million after the Republicans took controld of Congress in 1995.
But Helms is likely in hell now, I hope he's gotten the chance to chat with Mappelthorpe, and if he's in heaven, I hope the photographer's there, too. Either way, they will probably mix it up a little.
[Hold your horses, Tim -- Helms isn't dead yet!! In my hasty efforts to be snarky, I have confused him with that other pillar of public service from the Carolinas, Strom Thurmond, who is quite dead. My apologies. As they would say, though, don't they all look alike? Perhaps he can save a seat for the Senator. ]
I googled him just to make sure, and found this:
from today's Times:
Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, administration officials said on Wednesday.
The proposal is part of a turnaround for the agency, which was once fighting for its life, attacked by some Republicans as a threat to the nation's moral standards.
Laura Bush plans to announce the request on Thursday, in remarks intended to show the administration's commitment to the arts, aides said.
Administration officials, including White House budget experts, said that Mr. Bush would propose an increase of $15 million to $20 million for the coming fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. That would be the largest rise in two decades and far more than the most recent increases, about $500,000 for 2003 and $5 million for this year.
Wow. Hooray for the NEA. Laura must be behind this one. The proposed increase would bring the budget to about $140 million, a welcome increase, but still a far cry from the Endowment's heydey in 1992, when they topped $170 million.
Even Clinton had a rough go at it during his administration, with people like Jesse Helms calling for drastic cuts and even the elimination of the Endowment. As the article points out, the budget was slashed, and remained at, roughly $100 million after the Republicans took controld of Congress in 1995.
But Helms is likely in hell now, I hope he's gotten the chance to chat with Mappelthorpe, and if he's in heaven, I hope the photographer's there, too. Either way, they will probably mix it up a little.
[Hold your horses, Tim -- Helms isn't dead yet!! In my hasty efforts to be snarky, I have confused him with that other pillar of public service from the Carolinas, Strom Thurmond, who is quite dead. My apologies. As they would say, though, don't they all look alike? Perhaps he can save a seat for the Senator. ]
I googled him just to make sure, and found this:
posted by quickstuff at 29.1.04
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