Cantor: No Museums for You

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/9/4/154634/1569

Cantor: No Museums for You

by BooMan
Sun Sep 4th, 2011 at 03:46:34 PM EST


Why should we spend money on museums or the preservation of historic sites? Let's eliminate all federal funding for such nonsense, shall we?

Congressional Republicans may be opposed to President Obama’s call for new infrastructure spending, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is pushing an idea that he says would free up funds for critical transportation projects.

In a statement responding to Friday’s disappointing jobs report, Cantor highlighted a proposal to eliminate a rule requiring states to set aside 10 percent of federal surface transportation funds for “museums, education and preservation.” Scrapping that provision, Cantor said, “would allow states to devote these monies to high-priority infrastructure projects, without adding to the deficit.”

Let's create some jobs and build some infrastructure by taking money away from highway beautification projects. Why don't we do that? That seems like a great compromise.

I swear, there is no dealing with these people. Search as long and hard as you want, you still won't find a hint of decency in them.

[livetohike]

1. Let's tear them all down! That should create plenty of

jobs in demolition :sarcasm:. I keep hoping that these statements are from The Onion, or the Borowitz report. Cantor has to go.

[Cleita]

2. Sociopaths are like that. n/t

[tridim]

3. Has Egon ever mentioned cutting the military?

Just once? Maybe a .001% cut just as a token gesture?

[onehandle]

4. 'Now Diana, as you were saying. You don't think the poor should be allowed in museums?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMc9B7uDV8

[durablend]

5. Sounds like we need to compromise more with them!

:sarcasm:

[frazzled]

6. Yo, people WORK in museums and museums CREATE jobs

Sometimes I get dispirited when people talking about "working people" and and don't include or think about all types of workers. Mr. Frazzled worked in an art museum for many years, so I'm a little sensitive on this issue. It's not the world's best pay, but the perks (intellectually stimulating work, meeting with artists, travel, etc.) are pretty great. Museums employ many types and kinds of workers: from curators to financial people to exhibition crews to museum guards to cooks.

Additionally, museums create huge amounts of stimulus to the economies around them: restaurants and galleries and shops pop up around them, places that also create jobs and hire people. The arts generate tons of revenue for cities, which is why politics and culture wars evaporate on the local level. Even Republicans at the local level realize that the arts--museums, theater, music--are good for the local economy.

[CrispyQ]

8. If I could do it all over again, I'd consider a career in that field.

It's fascinating.

I used to get a catalog from a museum in Boston. I ordered a few things & they were beautiful.

[woodsprite]

12. My daughter just started college majoring in Art Conservation/Museum Studies

I hope museums don't go by the wayside. She wanted so much get a degree in Fine Arts, but because she understood and liked Chemistry, she thought this would still be within her interests AND give her more marketable skills.

Aaaaah, the rich will still need those people because they'll still need someone who knows art and history to appraise their hoards of 'private collections', price things at auction houses, and restore stuff that gets wrecked in global warming events.

[CrispyQ]

7. I wonder when the last time Cantor visited a museum?

On a 4th grade field trip, probably. "If it's something I don't use, then there should be no funding for it." That's the teabagger attitude.

Your final sentence is spot on. Here's mine:

Cantor: What a fucking asshole. :insert the bird here:

[krispos42]

15. Take your pick of pics

[CrispyQ]

16. Love #1.

~lol.

[dembotoz]

9. what is the quote-those who forget history are doomed to repeat it??? Seems that he

has a lot of mistakes he wants to repeat.

[dgibby]

10. Cantor is an ass.

We'd have to close the entire state of Va. if we followed his so called "advice". What a tool!

[JHB]

11. Hmmmm, how many Civil War battlefields are in Virginia?

Any of those funds go to those places?

I'm sure some people who might normally like Cantor would object strongly.

[Lucian]

13. This just upsets me.

Why do people like Cantor go through life not giving a crap about cultural heritage? Learning about the past can give us a sense of identity. It's what connects all of us, what brings us together.

I would hate to live my life where I only look at things as being profitable or not. What a sad, empty life.

[SusanaMontana41]

14. No compromise. No retreat. NO surrender. nt

[wiggs]

17. Wants to eliminate public support for National Endowment of the Arts as well. nt