Save the Fine Arts Bill

[Jake]

For example, cutting this program's c.400 million of so budget can be used to increase the pay of every soldier currently in Iraq by around $ 250 a month. I'll take that any day over government sanctioned "art".

[Jake]

Come now, it's 500 million dollars.  It's a drop in the bucket.

Why don't we put that drop into building 100 new ultra-modern schools, or maybe give every soldier in Iraq a $ 3,000 bonus. Hell, I'm sure we could even use the money to install better security systems at ports of entry into the US. Each of those suggestions are a hell of alot more relevent than funding someone's arbitrary opinion of art.