Is it a Republican thing?

[sharpchick_2011]

First, we had Mitt Romney telling Scott Pelley of CBS how he'd balance the budget.

Asked for specifics, Romney listed "the subsidy for PBS, the subsidy for Amtrak, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts" and "the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Humanities."

Now, the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, Brian Kemp, will close the state's archives building to make a required 3% reduction in his office's budget.

“The building will be mothballed, if you will. It will have just enough employees there to take care of the critical documents.”

Open season on public access to arts, humanities and public records.

Not just the brightest bunch...

Comments

[trouble]

We've had that happen here with cutting funding to Library and Archives Canada (claiming they'll make everything available online while simultaneously cutting funding to the online projects) while our government beats the history drums re: War of 1812.

[oakmouse]

Yep, it's a Republican thing. Art and trains and archives are for the rich, don't you know, and they can afford their own so they don't need the government subsidies. The riffraff can do without.