Public funding for the "Arts" Re: Computer Museum

At 01:28 AM 7/10/05 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote: I couldn't disagree more! It wasn't the right-wing goons, christian loonies, etc that killed public funding for the arts, it was the sicko, perverted, frequently pornographic and always ugly work of the "artists" that killed public funding. The public was fed up with no-talent artists feeding at the public trough! Remember the photograph of the crucifix in a glass of urine? How much talent did that take? Yet that "artist" was paid several hundred thousand dollars every year to produce "art". I for one hope we've seen the last of "art" produced for the public! There are thousands of good artists in this country but public funding was nothing but a haven for no-talent punks that wanted to make a "statement" and screamed "freedom of the arts" everytime they offended the same public that they expected to fund them! Joe