Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Arnie Lawrence, John Lewis, George Duvivier, and Shelly Manne, performing It Don’t Mean A Thing in Nice (1979, 9:42).
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This is a bit of a follow-up on the Liberal Party/Chinese connection discussion. I was remembering that the Liberals were giving the Chinese a ton of money, but could not remember the details. Here is a 2005 SDA link discussing the issue: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/002430.html
So now I know I was remembering correctly — a million dollars a week to China — and no explanation as far as I can see. Does anyone know where more information can be found? Newspaper — or maybe the news does not cover this type of thing.
I really hope that some of this garbage comes out during the election. Most Canadians are totally in the dark about how they have been ripped off and deceived by the Liberal Party (with more to come if Dion ever gets in.)
She’s from New Brunswick .. eh! Dimwitted Lyse Doucet… news speaker for BBC World News thinks that media are “Not showing the Taliban’s Humanity” ……..
Re: “With $1.1 million people directly or indirectly involved in the arts generating 84 billion in economic activity, that works out to about 76 thousand per person, about twice the per capita GDP of an average Canadian.”
I haven’t read the article listed, but this kind of economic analysis shows up all the time when the subject is the arts. I would guess that they’re adding up all transactions that flow outward from the subsidized artist. Thus if artist A gets a subsidy and produces a work of art that person B buys, then B buys a pair of shoes from C, then C buys a loaf of bread from D, etc., then all the prices are added up into one humongous total. What it doesn’t say is (a) the total might well be higher if the money goes to something other than arts, and (b) the total might be higher if the artist has to do something else instead. And subsidies still distort the economy to the detriment of us all.
How much did the Beatles ever get in arts subsidies?