Your NEA cultural tax dollars at work
Yeah, but whose nation?
Isn’t this special? Cash-strapped Los Angeles, which struggles to keep its own libraries afloat, is planning to set aside nearly $2 million in federal grants from the NEA to build and operate a pavilion at a book fair…
…in Mexico.
Via Mayor Sam’s Sister City blog:
When the City of Los Angeles was struggling to balance its budget on the backs of local libraries, most of whom do not have enough books for local children, a little known plan was hatched within the bowels of the City’s Cultural Affairs Department to spend up to $2 million in Federal grant money on the City’s participation in a book fair in Jalisco, Mexico, including the construction of a pavilion for the event.
You may remember back in May significant cuts for the library were proposed including a fee charged on children who borrowed books from other branches across the city through an inter-library exchange. Citizens banded together to save library funding while librarians were instructed to shake down Neighborhood Councils for book funding. Indeed, the Mid-Town North Hollywood Neighborhood Council voted to forgo an election mailer in order to fund the library (at a vote taken literally minutes before an announcement from Councilmember Wendy Greuel that funding had been restored). At the Neighborhood Council elections about a month later, turnout was about 100 voters in a community of 95,000.
The proposed cuts and fees never happened and $2 million was restored to the library budget as Council Member “Sleepy” Greig “Good Deal” Smith gleefully boasted to CityWatch.
Tuesday the Council will vote on a motion by Councilmembers LaBonge and Huizar to approve the $1.6 million in funding for the book fair.
The public funds will also be used for security required by the Mexican book fair operators and includes a requirement to “subcontract with a Mexican
construction firm to build and install the showcase pavilion in Guadalajara, as
recommended by the NEA.”
The proposal is here.
Maybe I should donate copies of Invasion to sell at the book fair.
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Isn’t Los Angeles in mexico?
/sarcasm off.
This is typical. When the local government here in VA runs out of the money they’ve misspent, they threaten the citizens with the cancelation of essential services, such as police, fire, etc. Then taxes are raised and the misspending continues unabated, meanwhile the sheep reelect the wolves. Like I said, typical.
Uh oh, I feel a new logo coming on
This is BS, the cultural affairs dept. of the city of Lost Angeles are idiots. American taxpayers money should stay in America, but maybe I’m just jeolous their not giving me a grant for my art project “Piss Obamessiah” ya know it’s just art.
morons 
The good news is that the books can all still be written in Spanish.
Awesome
What a great idea Michelle to offer your book for the book fair. That would be the coup de main.
Is this another case of the blogosphere tracking down a story with more enthusiasm than the MSM?
Well, maybe they’ll have a few of Ciceros’ works at the book fair:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Unbelievable. This type of thing seems to be more and more of the norm rather than just some isolated thing happening in a looney place on the east or west coast.
I keep wondering how we can take back our country. My vote doesn’t seem to count for anything…both parties are broken.
What to do???
Unbelievable. This type of thing seems to be more and more of the norm rather than just some isolated thing happening in a looney place on the east or west coast.
I keep wondering how we can take back our country. My vote doesn’t seem to count for anything…both parties are broken.
What to do???
Absolute excellent analogy. I find it difficult to even read some of these articles because until these people quit voting for the morons who are subjugating the population - there is nothing else to do or say
Wasn’t funding for the NEftArts cut during the mid 90s when we had a Rep majority in both Houses? !!!!! NOOOOOOO
We conservatives were angry at NEA promotions of “art” such as pissss Christ..and asked our Rep. Reps and Senators to withdraw funding –NADA absolutemente NADA was done —in fact— they increased funding!!!
L-O-T-E —No Mas (sp)
That’s a little LA speak from a lonely LA conservative ……
I thought they strangled your type at birth there!!!
Simmer down. I heard they’ll only be stocking it with ‘Memin Pingin’.
Don’t give’em any more ideas than they already have.
NEA = No English Allowed
How the L.A. City Council works.
It is not that I object to the NEA spending money in Mexico–It is that the NEA is spending my money I object to. There should be no NEA. NEA, NPR, PBS are theft of the peoples’ money and must be stopped. If any of those people had anything worthwhile they would have little problem getting private financing.
I guess Mill Moyers of PBS could jump in here and set me straight. The whole bunch of them are welfare leeches.
Is this where I say Viva Mexico, licencia del yanqui?
Oh No a whole 2 million dollars!
We spend more in Iraq per hour and get less in return
Well at least the money stays in California…
Anybody from L.A. need a copy of my high school spanish book, El Camino Real?
Looks like you Angelenos are gonna need a few million of them when your mayor eventually makes it to the governor’s office.
Hell, I guess we all will then.
Sadly, our politicians are busy doing what Santa Ana failed to do.
geeze, one would think after a 1.6 billion dollar gift the U.S laid on Mexico the least they could do was build the Pavillion for no charge…
I’m sure the schools in the L.A. area could put 1.6 mil to good use also.
crapweasels.
This sort of nonsense will continue until there is a tax revolt in this country. As long as the money flows in it will get thrown away on this kind on junk.
How about everyone who owes taxes next April send in a $.10 check with a note of their choosing.
We need more cops AJ.
true john, and a list a mile long other than what these dipsticks are doing.
Accountability? Just one of the many missing points on the moral compass embraced by free-spending liberals. Fidelity (to one’s spouse and country) is another.
Have there been any studies done outlining the spending proclivities of elected officials in the border states to see how much taxpayer money they spend on “hispanic” causes or outreach?
Not a clue, do you? My car had a flat tire thursday. Being a Conservative I fixed the tire. A Liberal would have blamed Bush/Chaney and burned down their house, demanded the government replace the tire, their house and they they would start to post silly statements on the MM blog.
Now good Ilovemycountry, just what do we get in return for this book fair?
I am an elementary art teacher (and artist) that doesn’t believe tax dollars should go to the arts outside of the school’s themselves. Just like I don’t think tax dollars should go to new stadiums for sports.
Outfreaking standing. Ain’t America great? I’m a photographer and legitimate AMERICAN isn’t getting funded and the damn NEA is funding a book fair in Mexico???!!!
Damn, I need a new keyboard. My head just exploded.
Would it be expecting too much that such programs as NEA be required to fund activities taking place only in America?
The libs have made it certain that we will never be rid of sinkholes like the NEA and PBS, but can’t the Republicans at least embarrass them enough to grant us that one restriction? What is next? Amtrak building a rail line in Guatamala or the USPS printing stamps for Sri Lanka?
If the story about the Catholic school being sued over implementing an English only policy wasn’t enough to get my blood boiling. Now this continued tribute of American tax dollars to those that openly invade my country from the traitors in the NEA. Fred Thompson was correct when he called them one of the biggest threats to this nation.
Fedral monies being sent out of our country by a city????? MY MONEY?? with out my permission???
This is why the Feds MUST get out of the money give away bussiness!!!
If LA wants send money to Mexico fine let them send LA money! NOT mine.
Well allrsn, Los Angeles doesn’t have any money to give.
No, but if you want to work and live in LA area, you should better be fluent in Spanish. Just like in Miami and many places in TX.
Hope they bring their bodyguards:
Link
John A…
Tenn./ N.C are looking better and better to me and I try never to give up!
How about you?
Sonofdy # 13—- We’re just strangled w/ taxes to pay for welfare “entitlements” for anyone who feels they are a victim….
Once again throwing our money away again in Mexico.
Scroll to :
Is this ….Satire…
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/
or products of our schools…..
There’s nothing sweeter than seeing tax dollars going to bolster the education of a third-world country that is invading our own.
Leave it to Mexifornia.
Michelle, where do we send donations of our books?
Let’s see…here in LA the Mexican flag is waved …in GEORGIA -the Star Spangled Banner is waved together with the Georgian flag>>>>> HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/georgian-leader-thanks-john-mccain-at.html#comments
Michelle,
Send some books to me, I’ll sell them at the DNC.
I’ll get photos of your book in scores of ‘liberal’ hands.
Has our Cultural Affairs Department ever sent money to Mexico before or is this just a consequence of Antonio LaRaza, our no-borders mayor?
There is not one valid reason to send this money to Mexico to support a book fair. I’m a lifetime resident of Los Angeles and this sickens me. Our city has no money and LaRaza wants to send $2 million to his homeland. What an arrogant and disrespectful man.
Well, considering that 1/2 of Kalifornia already sends their money to Mexico, why should this surprise anyone?
Mayor VillaLaRaza isn’t going to risk not getting re-elected without the support of his [illegal] constituency, is he now?
More on books and bullets, from Woody Allen: “Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet…a bullet, and I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that, I was walking down the street, when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon bible out a hotel room window, hitting me in the chest. Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn’t for the bullet.”
Good luck to them in Mexico.
I know why you picked that screen name now. By your actions nobody would know. It’s kind of like Jesse Jackson calling himself a reverend. If he didn’t stick that in there nobody would ever think he was a reverend, and most people still don’t.
Ugh. Is this the best that liberal trolls can come up with? If you love your country so much, show some respect for it, and the people who serve it.
Exactly, they can’t arrest everyone, if enough people would get together and do this. Just burn the friggin’ 1040 or post it back to the
IRSthieves, maybe then they would get the message. But Nooooo. Every April, we all line up like stupid sheep to get sheared.Americans unite, burn the 1040, you have nothing to loose but YOUR money.
Hang on a minute! This is genius! Spend the money to solve the problem at the source…Send $2million worth of “English as a Second Language” textbooks we won’t have to waste money on bilingual education here!
People, people, people! Oldedude beat me to it! The idea of sending money to support the education of future residents of Mexifornia is brilliant, however misguided. Why, you just have to believe that every single dollar/peso will go exactly where it’s supposed to…into some politician’s new pool!
“This sort of nonsense will continue until there is a tax revolt in this country. As long as the money flows in it will get thrown away on this kind on junk.”
With “Tax withholding” they neutralized a LOT of that threat to big government by most citizens.
I’m starting to really hate this city.