They Support The Arts With Your Money
OUR most loyal reader and frequent contributor (keep your paws off him, you damn dirty apes), James Phillips adds his two cents to my piece on the demise of the Shakespeare Festival in Grand Marais, Minnesota because of state budget cuts:
Good lord, it sounds like the Strib is recycling editorials from its sister paper, the Sacramento Bee from the days when our symphony orchestra was circling the drain. Gees folks, get over it. I remember my first job at a law firm after I got out of the Navy. All the partners raved about going to the symphony (as did a couple of pretentious brown-nosing associates). Of course, these guys had money, as did everyone else "supporting" the symphony. Unfortunately, their "support" consisted of political pressure to "support" it with my money (tax dollars). Screw you people. And these people were almost universally "good liberals" (Sacramento Nice?) Yes, and I seem to recall the same over-wrought rhetoric.
But sadly, Yes Virginia, the canary isn't dead and there will continue to be a government Santa for you. I am sure that the Minnesota taxpayer will continue to pay for elitist art and entertainment that working people (you know, the people you care about) don't give a damn about. You'll get my support when Minnesota taxpayers start supporting things like the Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza.
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