thedens wrote:
Brian Rad wrote:
No more more for artsy fartsy stuff. Gummint's broke.Tapped out. Insolvent. No more money. Nada. Zip.Zero.

Let the kidsparents pay to send the lil' thugs to trade school where they can learn a useful skill and not become parasites perpetually sucking off the gummint tit on NEA funds and what not so they can think up new and inventive ways to dismay and offend Conservative Christians.

I got a vasectomy. You have NO RIGHT making babies that I have to pay to educate, doctor and ultimately imprison.

Eliminate government employee unions. No more gun laws. I wanna be able to walk down the street with a big iron on my hip, preferably a Lady Kenmore.

An artist designed your hat. And the house you live in. And the church you work in.  And the cars and trucks you drive.  And the tv shows you watch, and the advertisements for products you use, and your blankets, and your curtains, and every page of every magazine you read (including the gun magazines) and the covers and layouts of your books, and your furniture, and your clothes, and the textbooks students study, and the medical graphics and videos that teach doctors, and all of those stuffed animals you collect.  And they make money doing it, so that they don't have to mooch off of the government.  And yes, a very, very, very tiny minority of artists also come up with ways to offend people with their art.  Those don't usually make a good living, though.

I'm pretty sure he didn't mean self-supporting (or population-supporting, depending on your income bracket) artists; I think he was thinking more of a "liberal arts" education, which means you can do a whole lot of nothing sometimes. Anyone you named above has an actual arts degree, or engineering degree, or design degree, etc.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein


"A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship."
Ivern Ball

Why do most liberal political arguments boil down to someone shoving their pointy little nose in my face and saying "Well, you see, we've decided that personal responsibility, self-reliance, and independent thinking are old-fashioned and very passe'--not to mention dangerous and problematic!--so we insist you desist on all of the above at once!"