UPDATE-The more I think about this post, the more disgusted I get. Harry Reid and the Democrats just don't get it. Reid's point seems to be that if it wasn't for federal funding of things like this, the economy of local communities would be deprived of things like the Cowboy Poetry Festival. It probably is a boon to the economy of the area in question, but its also beside the point. It just simply isn't the place of the federal government to be supplementing this kind of thing with taxpayer money.
Granted, you could fund a thousand of these things every year, ten thousand even, and it would still amount to a minuscule portion of the federal budget. The total money would not even amount to ten percent of one percent. But the point is, this is a signpost of government involvement in all areas of our life. It has become an obtrusive part of the national culture, and it, like so much else, needs to end. If things like this can't survive without infusion of taxpayer funds from the federal government, then the harsh truth is, they have no intrinsic value that would validate their continued existence.
Go to a fucking rodeo if you want to appreciate cowboy culture. End of Update.
In a year of trillion dollar deficits, and more down the line as far as the eye can see, and an accumulated National Debt of fourteen trillion dollars and growing, what does Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid insist the government should keep funding?
The Cowbody Poetry Festival
Because, you know, nobody would come to see this thing if all it had to depend on for the funding were the area businesses that benefit from the tourism.
Granted, you could fund a thousand of these things every year, ten thousand even, and it would still amount to a minuscule portion of the federal budget. The total money would not even amount to ten percent of one percent. But the point is, this is a signpost of government involvement in all areas of our life. It has become an obtrusive part of the national culture, and it, like so much else, needs to end. If things like this can't survive without infusion of taxpayer funds from the federal government, then the harsh truth is, they have no intrinsic value that would validate their continued existence.
Go to a fucking rodeo if you want to appreciate cowboy culture. End of Update.
In a year of trillion dollar deficits, and more down the line as far as the eye can see, and an accumulated National Debt of fourteen trillion dollars and growing, what does Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid insist the government should keep funding?
The Cowbody Poetry Festival
Because, you know, nobody would come to see this thing if all it had to depend on for the funding were the area businesses that benefit from the tourism.
