Comments for Last ditch effort to restore arts funding expected Monday at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8447 Any info about Jindal giving money to religious groups? I'm truly interested. Anyone? - ragin_cajun Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:30:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8417 resident-- The religion analogy is very apt. What I'm trying to say is that tax payer dollars going to churches is every bit as wrong as tax payer dollars going to arts, or NGO's. Governments are not "instituted among men" to "celebrate creativity", or "provide inspiration". Jindal "gave a whole bunch of money to some Baptist church recently"? Send me a link. If he did, he's wrong, I'm pissed, and I'll give money to his opponent in the next election. The government spending orgy must stop--at every level of government. - ragin_cajun Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:22:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8414 ragin cajun, didn't Bobby Jindal give a whole bunch of money to some Baptist church recently? Who was up in arms? I don't think the religion analogy is apt, mostly because of that separation of church and state thing. The arts are not about imposing a worldview, they're about celebrating the creativity in people and providing some inspiration in a world of conformity and consumerism. I'm sure that our esteemed state officials spend our money on other far less reputable endeavors than arts. However, Johnson makes an excellent point that lots of things are going to see budget cuts, though I have a feeling that Bobby and his partisan colleagues have some partisan ideology in mind when making those cuts (and not making other cuts). - Resident Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:11:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8407 MR. BARREL MAKER, """ IF YOU DONATE $ 1000.00 OF BIG CHIEF LINED TABLETS AND NO. 3 YELLOW PENCILS TO ANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LAFAYETTE """! I will donate $ 1000.00 to any Art Museum, Art Performance, or Artistic cause of your choice.......... There was a time, once upon a time, when the parents of the school children saw to it that the government issued, Big Chief Tablets and Yellow No. 3 Pencils to the schools students. Somewhere along the line the artsy crowd rubbed the right elbows and began to beg for small handouts now the artsy crowd wants art and wine tasteing soirre's, " A La Shame, BUMMING AND STEALIN THE BIG CHIEF TABLETS and Yellow No. 3 Pencils from the school children and breeding a bunch of imbeciles who can't write or draw a CAT, because you took their only means of expressing their hidden artistic talents...... - EXISTENTIALIST HOMME Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:51:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8406 There are such people, who through inbreeding such as the royalty familias of Europe, who have become more of a delicate nature than others, and who can fixate on a can of campbell chicken soup, or painted Pelicans, or a piece of twisted iron whose value could be determined at Southwest Scrap and Salvage at approximately $ 1.40 per pound, shucked off as art to the limp-wrist bunch for lunch crowd, these " Patrons Of The Arts, need to dream up another fund rairing gimmick rather than ask hard-working tax-payers to fund their taste for so-called art that could'nt sell at a garage sale in upper lafayette not even during Hurricane season to be used for boarding ones glass windows. When i began to work at 18 years of age, i had an intense love for bass fishing, and i would go to Lake Martin to fish from the bank. when i was 25 years of age i purchased an alum. boat and carved a paddle from an oak board and paddled out from the bank to fish. The moral to this story is, no-one supported my love for the great outdoors and nature in bloom and my bass fishing, and if you, " Barrel Maker want an art museum and painted Pelicans, then donate your money as do the true to life, "ART PATRONS ", or go to the Piggly Wiggly Store and enjoy the stacked cans of different variety and colorfully labeled soups. I mean why fixate on an oil or acrylic of painted fruit when you can walk down the aisle by the produce shelf at the Piggly Wiggly, Gratis ! - HARDHAT Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:34:05 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8404 Barrelmaker-- That's beautiful. I now see it your way--I'm CONVERTED! I'm gonna write a check to the ACA right now! So what does the government have to do with any of this. Seriously, your points are well taken, arts are well worth supporting. What I disagree with is a law that tells me I HAVE to support the arts. Or government just taking my tax dollars and doing it for me. If we talking about funding churches like this, we'd all be up in arms, and rightfully so. The same arguements you make for funding arts can be made about funding religion. Should the state fund them, too? - ragin_cajun Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:17:32 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8402 The title of this article should read "Last ditch effort to restore arts 'public' funding expected Monday." No organization private, public, for-profit, or not-for-profit is going to be able to insulate itself from the budget cuts that we are going to see at every level of government in whatever locale it may exist. Over 10% of this country is unemployed. The drilling moratorium in the GOM has the potential to negatively effect state coffers as much as 30%. It would be wise for the ACA to attempt to fill their budget gaps by seeking more private funding, while allowing for said private donors to have discretion as to what their money is funding. Certainly the ACA organizes several profitable events; the Gulf brew festival comes to mind. They ought to focus on events like this in order to strive for a self sustaining model. Throughout history artists have found the need to solicit private funding by creating art, i.e. portraits, that would afford them the capitol to focus on creating the type of art that they prefer on their own time. Pragmatism should always be the order of the day. ...arts programming on the local level is still likely to suffer a devastating blow." A lack of pragmatism, diversity, and self sustainability continually leaves one blowING in the wind, helpless to make their own way. I donate to the ACA every time I attend one of their sponsored events. Further, I would be happy to donate more if it were to an "art project" that I am particularly passionate about. - Johnson Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:48:38 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8401 One mile of two lane highway shotgun. Keep in mind most artists and producing organizations are already functioning on a shoe string budget. People working for not for profits are not rich people. The products, organizations, and performances they fund bring tourism here and give all of us small people something to be entertained and helped by. It has nothing to do with paying taxes. It has to do with supporting the arts presenters and the artists that create the things people travel here to spend their money on. It has to do with funding organizations that support the less fortunate in our communities. It has to do with having something at the end of that mile stretch of road worth seeing. - Barrelmaker Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:29:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8397 YEAH, but a two-lane highway is useful,and may be utilized by every taxpayer, and the arts are a government perk for the well-to-do peeps dodging their duty of paying federal taxes, these tax-dodging couillions whose taste for luxuries such as museums and artsy performances are too slick to pay taxes, to begin with, and much less to tight in the hip to aid in supporting their artsy black and white affairs, and hob-nob wine tasting soiree.............. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:38:30 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6445-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-arts-funding-expected-monday#comment-8396 45%? 101% sounds better. - Ariana Puffington Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:44:18 +0100