[Dixielandjazz] Grants for Arts>>Putting People To Work

[BillSargentDrums at aol.com]

<<All of us should remind our local representatives of this reality  and push 
for restoring and adding more Arts Grants to the government budgets.?  People 
love the results...it gives them things to do and does not directly hit  
their own pockets.?>>
 
That's a fallacy. It is directly out of their own pockets. Yes, there's a  
middleman, government, that charges a handling fee . . . but all too often,  
people forget: any time the government spends (grants) money, it is YOUR money  
and MY money and THEIR money.
 
I'm getting doggone tired of people thinking the governmental funds are  free 
money.
 
I say let all the arts stand on public votes, called dollars, and let them  
survive or die without ANY governmental intervention whatsoever.
 
Bill
 
 
In a message dated 3/10/2009 12:48:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
budtuba at aol.com writes:

Subject:  Grants for Arts>>Putting People To  Work











Just a comment and a  private beef.? I just got a news letter from our local 
Arts Council of  Rochester and they were talking about reversing Gov. 
Patterson's (NY) plans to  cut back on arts grants.? They talked at length about how 
these grants are  providing what patrons want (performances, art shows, 
educational programs,  etc), how many people are employed by the effects of grants, 
and the ancillary  businesses that benefit (restaurants, hotels, etc.) they 
seem to neglect that  the recipients of grants thereby get paid for their efforts 
and that THEY  spend this money on the stuff of their lives, too.? If Obama, 
or Patterson, or  any government official wants to stimulate the economy and 
put people to work,  there probably is no better and fasterway than to provide 
an ARTS  GRANT.



All of us should remind our local representatives of  this reality and push 
for restoring and adding more Arts Grants to the  government budgets.? People 
love the results...it gives them things to do and  does not directly hit their 
own pockets.? Many forms of arts will not survive  on instant popularity 
alone.? Much as a modernist painting takes time to  appreciate, OKOM needs new 
exposure to young ears to regain the popularity it  once had.? We often have young 
people enthusiastically ask about the music we  play...as if we invented it.? 
We tell them where to go and find more.? They do  come back..many of 
them..once they realize that they like  it.











Roy (Bud)  Taylor

Smugtown Stompers Jazz Band

Trad Jazz since 1958...we  ain't just whistling  dixie!










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