Back in the 1970's (or at least in 1977, a year I was doing a lot of subbing
for them), the Lake George Opera would pay part of its salaries in stacks of
silver dollars. The idea was that company members would use these to pay for
local purchases in the surrounding area (Lake George Village,
Please pardon the double post.
Perhaps the sugar content of this morning's breakfast was to high, but a
nationally syndicated columnist (for lack of a better word) posted the
following today and his was my response. Any comments are welcome.
Will someone please tell me how millions of
it away.
My two cents,
Trey Johnson
From: scott...@msn.com
To: horn@music.memphis.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:48 -0500
Subject: [Hornlist] NEA and Economic stimulus
Please pardon the double post.
Perhaps the sugar content of this morning's
Scott Young posts a quote from an anonymous nationally syndicated
columnist as follows:
Will someone please tell me how millions of dollars to protect the habitat
of a marsh mouse in San Francisco, or millions for the National Endowment
for the Arts, or billions for the ACORN neighborhood
Seems like there are two issues at work here, funding for arts and restoring
the US economy.
Two valid goals, but when you look at national programs to end the recession
and get the economy back on even footing it would be nice to fund programs
that have a multiplying affect. Since we're in a
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