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In article <mattartEtG1It.F65@netcom.com>, mattart@netcom.com (Mattison) writes:
|> So the saga continues.....
|> 
|> With a negative 39 philanthropy rating in Silly Icon Valley Cleveland 
|> ...wherever that is is kicking your little BMW's by 70 HUGE points
|> 
|> FOR ShAME!

Why?  It's their money.  They can do what they wish with it.

|> 
|> ... the 
|> California Legislature gives us more wonderful proof 
|> of your lack of support in the arts....

The state of CA has no legal or moral obligation to spend
taxpayer money on "art".

|> 
|> and cultural illiteracy....

A lot of "geeks" would look at it from a different point-of-view:
they would consider you illiterate.

|> 
|> For SHAmE!

Whatever.

|> 
|> and it only took 5 years to get ba.art after I requested it....

You get a newsgroup when you can show that there is a minimum
amount of interest.  It's your responsibility as the requestor
to demonstrate that interest.  All the time lag means is that
you didn't do your part.

|> 
|> EHmmmm ... 
|> 
|> Like I said....
|> 
|> Geeks Cultural Illiterates.....

Ah, the typical, smug, self-absorbed pseudo-intellectual...
trashing a group of people because they don't share your
particular hot-button.

|> 
|> Let me know when you change the world....

And you?  :-)

|> 
|> Art is in and Armegedon is out boys....

Whatever.

|> 
|> The following frmo CA Lawyers for the Arts Newsletter - Artistic License 
|> Volume 7 No. 1....
|> 
|> "California now ranks 46th in per capita spending on the arts _ at 36 
|> cents per person.  While New York recently increased its Arts Council 
|> budget to over 40 Million, the budget for the California Arts Council is 
|> only 12.7 million.
|> 
|> Senator Adam B Schiff, Chair of the Joint Committee on the Arts, has 
|> intorduced Senate Bill 1373, calling for an investment of at least 1$ per 
|> capita in the arts.  This proposed increase n the budget for the  
|> California Arts Council, to 35 million, recognizes the critical fole of 
|> the arts and evtyertainment in the states economic activity in California.
|> The arts generate ove 2 billion in annual economic activity in 
|> California"
|>  and every dollar spent on te arts turns t 20.00 back to the 
|> commmunity.

It's always rather simple to make wild claims, supporting them
is somewhat more difficult.  One can "introduce" anything as a bill,
passing them is somewhat more difficult.

|> 
|> 
|> Ehhhmmm Geeks ?

Bill Gates just paid 30Mill for an American painting.  Most of
the people who work in technical fields buy substantial amounts
of art.

|> Got your attention did I ....

So do dead skunks on the road.  Your point?

|> 
|> Pholcatscratch ?
|> 
|> (Who anyway...is gonna buy those art computers all you people are making ?  
|> Ask all those who got laid off at SGI maybe ? Right ?)

Your jealousy, narrow-mindedness, and avarice are showing a bit....

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