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Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan
Sigh...
I realize that my original post was long and boring, and I don't blame you if you didn't bother to read it, so let me sum up:
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You have actually made one of the better arguments that I have read on this subject.
I struggle with justifying the funding. I believe there is some merit to supporting worthwhile community efforts that educate children and provide the arts (in various forms) to those who might not othewise be able to experience them.
All too often though we see examples of funding being blown on completely useless endeavours.
My husband recently blogged on some of these.
http://www.corymorgan.com/?p=60
Then we have another example from someone I'm kind of related to
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though he probably wouldn't admit it...
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Paul Gross fulfils a dream
Financially, the movie got a surprising $5.5-million kick-start from former Alberta premier Ralph Klein during Alberta's 2005 centennial celebrations, stunning the province's film community long accustomed to applying for limited film grants through the province's bureaucracy. The federal government added $3.5 million.
But the bulk of the movie's budget --up to $11 million -- has been acquired through private donators, investors and corporate sponsorship. It's a new way of doing business in Canadian film.
Many have said Gross exercised his innate "Albertan ingenuity" by going outside standard guidelines for funding, but the pressure that comes from spending private money is undoubtedly adding to the filmmaker's burden.
http://www.passchendaelethemovie.com/html/press.html
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I did not agree with Paul getting nearly all of Alberta's 2005 Arts funding or the way he went about getting it.
And I think he underestitmated his own abilities to raise the funds and I believe he could have raised the entire amount.
Which is what I think some people are trying to say; that if it is a worthwhile project it will find a way to fund it's creation....
without government spending taxpayers money.