Forget about the silly dickering over an anemic $50-million boost for the National Endowment for the Arts. About 100,000 nonprofit arts groups operate in the 50 states. Collectively they employ almost 6 million people. Crisis is a time for boldness, not timidity, and few recall an economic crisis quite like this one. So art museums, symphonies, theaters, dance companies and other cultural centers should get a huge infusion of funds.
Congress, please pass a cultural jobs bill
"Ever since a bunch of farmers, merchants and other small-businesspeople
fought the American Revolution against the East India Company and its
nominal CEO, King George III, corporations have been the nation's
primary obstacle to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They
still are."