Trump team prepares dramatic cuts

[dead0man]

There are good arguments to be made either way here, but since it's harder to gut govt bureaucracy than it is to create it, I don't really have a problem with this.  If they cut something that's actually important it will be noticed and fixed.

but I'm an optimist, pessimists might see it a bit differently (especially pessimists that enjoy big govt and subsidized art)

[dead0man]

I would be shocked if there are not more professional artists now than at any point in history.  This "oh, won't someone think of the artists!" hand wringing seems a bit much to me.  If a specific art is important, it will stick around.  If it's not, it wont.  Just like always.  You have to sell yourself to rich people or the masses to make a go at it, just like always.


I enjoy PBS and NPR, and while I've normally been for privatizing them, I'm still mildly concerned.  And I don't really care if the Feds give a little money to some poor young artists (I do care when it's subsidizing the hobbies of the rich, but we don't have to get into that again), but I don't really care if they don't either.