Harry Reid Loves Him Some Cowboy Poetry

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volinbham

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The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1,, eliminates National Public Broadcasting...It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.
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Read more at the Washington Examiner: Cowboy Poetry Festival | P.J. Gladnick | Opinion Zone | Washington Examiner]

Oddly enough, without the festival 10s of thousands of people wouldn't exist. Message? Republicans are committing murder...
 
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why don't they have private companies donate and pay for advertising. surely it can't be too expensive having gay cowboys read poetry.
 
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wait a sec, how do you know the cowboys are gay? :question:
 
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What would we be without those endowments, and what would that say about our society. The more I see of the Republican utopia the more I wish to continue down the current path of debt and all it's consequences spiraling toward an unknown end, rather than as to what these idiots purpose.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
What would we be without those endowments, and what would that say about our society. The more I see of the Republican utopia the more I wish to continue down the current path of debt and all it's consequences spiraling toward an unknown end, rather than as to what these idiots purpose.
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so given the choice you would rather watch the US go belly up than have Sesame Street get its own funding?
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
What would we be without those endowments, and what would that say about our society. The more I see of the Republican utopia the more I wish to continue down the current path of debt and all it's consequences spiraling toward an unknown end, rather than as to what these idiots purpose.
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where would we be without cowboy poetry? really?
 
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droski said:
where would we be without cowboy poetry? really?
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It's actually pretty popular in the rocky mountain area, but a lot of those guys are libertarian I think so they probably want the plug pulled on the national endowment for the arts.
 
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nbakerld said:
It's actually pretty popular in the rocky mountain area, but a lot of those guys are libertarian I think so they probably want the plug pulled on the national endowment for the arts.
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if it's popular than i assume the festival makes money and therefore we don't need to subsidize it to have it continue.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
What would we be without those endowments, and what would that say about our society. The more I see of the Republican utopia the more I wish to continue down the current path of debt and all it's consequences spiraling toward an unknown end, rather than as to what these idiots purpose.
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or, you, personally, could move to Spain, which is the next European social democracy that will fall under the weight of it's own social engineering.

btw, the US got along just fine before these endowments. Did the jazz scenes in Memphis and New Orleans benefit from them? How about Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, Robert Frost, or Aaron Copeland?
 
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droski said:
if it's popular than i assume the festival makes money and therefore we don't need to subsidize it to have it continue.
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Oh I totally agree, but I was just commenting on that because growing up in Utah I had no idea what cowboy poetry was until I moved out west.
 
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droski said:
if it's popular than i assume the festival makes money and therefore we don't need to subsidize it to have it continue.
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Good point.

Have any of you ever been to an event with more than a hundred people or so that DIDN'T have vendors?

Here's an idea. Sell the vendors licenses to vend and let the taxpayers keep their money. Sell tickets, whatever.

Anytime the government could be involved, the left seems hell bent on making it involved.
 
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or, you, personally, could move to Spain, which is the next European social democracy that will fall under the weight of it's own social engineering.


....or you can continue down that road paved with good intentions, to journey's end.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
What would we be without those endowments, and what would that say about our society. The more I see of the Republican utopia the more I wish to continue down the current path of debt and all it's consequences spiraling toward an unknown end, rather than as to what these idiots purpose.
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OB2, do you not see the absurdity of Reid's rant? He labels Republicans as mean spirited for suggesting maybe cowboy poetry funding isn't a national priority.

Is this really the best example of why virtually any cut in govt spending is mean spirited?

It's not about some utopia - it is the polar opposite. At some point someone has to step up and say everything is not a priority. Assuming the government can endlessly fund any number of items such as a cowboy poetry festival is the utopian view.
 
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volinbham said:
OB2, do you not see the absurdity of Reid's rant? He labels Republicans as mean spirited for suggesting maybe cowboy poetry funding isn't a national priority.

Is this really the best example of why virtually any cut in govt spending is mean spirited?

It's not about some utopia - it is the polar opposite. At some point someone has to step up and say everything is not a priority. Assuming the government can endlessly fund any number of items such as a cowboy poetry festival is the utopian view.
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I just view it as a power play to get the money for their agenda, to fund their special interest, their constituents for the cycle. Every Senator in this country on a national or local scale does the same thing time and time again. To use Reid specifically is a tactical move nothing more. Who is to say that festival is not important to that region. How much money through taxes are collected on the money generated. how much wealth is created. To say that a liberal doesn't have the right to try to create wealth and deprive a specific region of the opportunity to do so based on an attack on a congressman's position is just an example of the duplicitous nature of what is represented to be frugality.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
I just view it as a power play to get the money for their agenda, to fund their special interest, their constituents for the cycle. Every Senator in this country on a national or local scale does the same thing time and time again. To use Reid specifically is a tactical move nothing more. Who is to say that festival is not important to that region. How much money through taxes are collected on the money generated. how much wealth is created. To say that a liberal doesn't have the right to try to create wealth and deprive a specific region of the opportunity to do so based on an attack on a congressman's position is just an example of the duplicitous nature of what is represented to be frugality.
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I'm against all of this "benefit my constituents" crap. I don't think this is creating wealth for his region.

Your logic justifies more government spending for any issue that "helps" a particular region. Where will this funding come from?

Is it responsible to label an attempt to reduce spending as "mean spirited" simply because it reduces goodies for somebody? If so then any spending cut is mean spirited. Hell, any failure to pump more money into cowboy poetry is mean spirited.
 
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