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for example. We taxpayers will be spending at least 8,000 years worth of state public funding for the arts to support those con artists who figured out that junk bonds, leveraged buy-outs, and acres of empty office buildings were profitable investment vehicles.
Yes, the arts could pay for themselves, but we couldn't have much in the way of symphonies, theater, poetry or dance. We’d have more Guns n’ Roses, Public Enemy, and the like. And libraries? Why, they could pay for themselves. Of course, they couldn’t afford new books, but they could do well renting out the latest videos.
Yes, we are in a budget crisis and something does need to be done. But it really is a question of fairness and human values. There seem to be a different set of values at work here in Rappahannock County. That’s whv we live here. In the face of eeo
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