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It actually wasn't.
I find it ironic that in arguing how imperative it is to fund the arts, you provide an example of art produced where absolutely NO funding was available. I think your example actually argues for the other side of this debate - that financial handouts do not inspire great art.
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I'm sorry if I'm being misleading. Let me reiterate my position:
1 - I do
not believe in public money being used to fund adult art or athletic projects. This includes all art (music, theatre, dance, painting, etc...) and all athletics.
2 - I do not believe in favoring art or athletics, as both are
equally integral to the soul.
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Now, that being said, I would actually support funding such as this. And, as I mentioned, funding of community rinks, and any other programs that get kids active, interested and learning. With $11 billion, increasing funding to such outlets is not mutually exclusive to hiring more doctors, fixing more schools and building more roads/transit.
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And I agree totally. I only started to lose it a bit when this comment was made:
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"The Arts" should be the last thing on the list for funding. The very last.
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It really pissed me off. So I retorted about how the world would be up in arms if we took away the Football team or the Hockey Rinks. To which the effects of demand were commented upon.
And I forgot to make the comment that:
For every hockey kid in the world there are 1000 music kids. And in Calgary, Alberta...the richest place in the world, we give them crap music classes in crap schools run by totally uninspired crap music teachers. I cant speak for the other kinds of art because I'm not a singer, actor, painter, etc...
There are no artists in Alberta because Alberta doesn't value it or produce artists in our schools. And in 2008 that is pathetic.