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Glad to see
N EA attacked
’o the Editor:
I am writing this letter to let Paul] Reisler and the community mow that I applaud the efforts of iny one person or agency in the :leanup or dismantling of the Naional Endowment for the Arts NEA).
I am sickened daily by the rejorts of artists and performers who jush pornography and alternative ifestyles with taxpayer funding. I im not accusing Mr. Reisler and the Ki Theatre of being participants in ;his type of behavior, but by reading lis letter he does not define “arts” ind supports the funding decisions if Mr. Frohnmayer, who funded these obscene and disgusting artists. It is as wrong, as Mr. Reisler states, to bail out the crooks from the S&L rip-off as it is to allow the perpetrators of heinous crimes to walk the streets on suspended sentences. At the same time, he expects the taxpaying community to subsidize professional artists against our will.
If the art is of such little value that the public is not willing to finance it, then perhaps it is not what the public wants or needs. Then the artists should look at some options of commercializing so they can make it on their own. Other professionals have to adjust themselves to the particular needs of a community by offering their services or talents with their unique personal touch. This is the very essence of the free enterprise system. Thomas Edison once stated, “I will never invent something no one wants again.” In a supply-and-demand society, we pay for what we want; and the artists can charge whatever the market will bear for it.
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