Thoughts?She was deeply critical of the Harper government's cuts to the arts, especially the literary arts.
"They basically just hate us," she said in an interview with CBC Radio. "You know it’s people who have never seen any arts in their own lives — they would rather not have gardens, they would rather have parking lots. They just think it’s a frill probably."
You could have pulled that quote from the "arts community" at any time during the last thousand years or so. Substitute "town square" for parking lots.
It's really tough when people don't celebrate you for the art you feel compelled to create. Since the public isn't interested, government makes a good scapegoat.
Give them welfare and let them paint in their free time.You can put someone on welfare or you give them an artist grant. Which do you think is better for the nation and the economy. Which is the most productive use of money.
“Bread and circuses” has come to be a derogatory phrase that can criticize either government policies to pacify the citizenry, or the shallow, decadent desires of that same citizenry. In both cases, it refers to low-cost, low-quality, high-availability food and entertainment that have become the sole concern of the People, to the exclusion of matters that the speaker considers more important: e.g. the Arts, public works projects, human rights, or democracy itself. The phrase is commonly used to refer to short-term government palliatives offered in place of a solution for significant, long-term problems.
I think government funding in general would take a pretty serious hit (arts, sciences, probably health etc...). The people who back the Conservatives don't want their tax dollars funding much of anything, they want it back in their pockets.If Harper gets his majority, research funding is Canada will drop precipitously from it's already laughably low levels.
Bingo! I hope they can deliver on this.The people who back the Conservatives don't want their tax dollars funding much of anything, they want it back in their pockets.
I guess that kind of proves my point.Bingo! I hope they can deliver on this.
