If you were in charge of spending tax dollars for the arts, how would you spend our money?
h/t Brent
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“how would you spend our money?”
I guess they are calling the Tax Dollars “Our Money” CBC’s Money.
I would pay a four year old fifty bucks to trace the words “Get lost CBC you are closed for buisness.”
That my friends would be the extent of money spent on the CBC and their Arts.
Great poll! Set up for DEFEAT!!!
On tampons.
Gotta stop the haemorraging somehow…
almost 80% for government “shall not!”
HAHAHAHAHA
Clear your cache and cookies.
Keep voting.
There was no place to vote for “Immediately close all our offices, resign, and beg forgiveness for being a total nat,” so I just went with the other 80% of the poll that said they had no business fooling in the Arts.
Oz we don’t have to the truth is better.
My ‘get stuffed’ vote vote = 83.3%
Yes, but 16.7 % didn’t vote ‘get Stuffed’.
Oz we don’t have to the truth is better.
~FREE
A taxpayer voting multiple times on a CBC internet poll is the truth.
It doesn’t get any better.
“Comments on this story are pre-moderated. Before they appear, comments are reviewed by moderators to ensure they meet our submission guidelines”.
Figures.
Considering how much tax I pay I should be able to vote at least 10 times in that poll. Even so, I’m a bit surprised to see that much public “support” for state subsidized “artists”. It’s amazing that whenever I see a POS which is considered to be “art”, it universally turns out to be something that I’ve involuntarily paid for. OTOH, when I run into a piece of art that I really like, it’s the product of a non-state supported artist.
Simple solution to improve the quality of art – let buyers decide whether a piece of art is worth their money. Lots of tax savings and all that would be necessary to get the state supported “artists” to be gainfully employed is to teach them when to say “do you want fries with that order”.
The CBC vote link has been hacked, as soon as you click on vote you get redirected to a Honda advert…..
Artists in the Schools is one of the most pernicious uses of taxpayers’ dollars going. I’ve watched some of these barf-fests in school auditoriums and its simply make-work for someone’s kids, likely the kids of pols or teachers.
Whatever. The “artistic” fare, let alone flare, is completely lacking and they’re usually pushing a “progressive” agenda. In one play I saw, Prince Harry (of England) was a life-sized, cut-out “character” who was ridiculed and laughed at. Hey, Canadian kids, show contempt for the British Royal Family. That’s cool.
NO. MORE. TAXPAYER. MONEY. FOR. THE. ARTS.
Let them raise their own.
I really like Robert Bateman’s work. However, he is not considered an “artist” by the Arts Council, because (wait for it) he’s commercially viable….
87.89% against funding
Does anyone know what CBC has done with Digital TV?
It used to come in fine now its crap
As a “regular” school subject I have nothing against art classes in primary grades. After that it should be a elective subject, vying for a cut of the education budget like all the other departments. It is when art supersedes the core subjects that I get PO’d.
btw, as far as post-secondary education, I have no problem with students earning a Barely Able (BA) as long as they sign a waiver declaring that they realize they are not guaranteed the world or even a job when they finish.
@Texas Canuck
Every student of every faculty should sign one.
CBC apparatchik: “OMG, another poll gone horribly wrong! Public opinion is still contrary to our conditioning. Quick yank it from the website before some blogger gets a screen shot.
While we’re on the subject of confiscatory taxation without representation in Manitoba …
Why is it that the government owned liquor store, where I’m forced to pay $30.00 for a bottle of vodka that retails for $3.00 in its country of origin, is allowed to ask every customer for a $1.00 donation to some charity at the checkout counter? Have customers not been raped hard enough already? Liquor store robberies work in reverse in upside-down-land Canada.
.. which reminds me. A good response to the “would you like to donate a dollar to ____ ?” is “No thanks, I’ve already donated.”
Tony: they declined to participate in the conversion to digital along with the private broadcasters that were forced to, b/c they “can’t afford to” upgrade their transmitters. Leaving aside that they had the same warning as everyone else, it’s a pretty good example of mismanagement and how they’re professional supplicants at the government teat.
I’d spend the entire budget on a series of ten air-brushed motorcycle helmets originating from Delisle, Saskatchewan
I think you can vote more than once with this poll – I have.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Another cbc poll goes horribly wrong!
Keep the arts goons away from my wallet.
If I wish to fund the arts, I can write a cheque myself, I don’t need some slack jawed government bureaucrat to do it for me.
If I choose to fund culture in some way, it reflects my culture, if the mouth breathing arts grant bureaucrat hands them my money, it’s his culture, not mine.
It is VERY exciting to see the nanny state ask us lil’ peons which drain they should throw our money down!
“If you were in charge of spending tax dollars for the arts, how would you spend our money?”
I’d fund General Walt Natynczyk to fly around the country in a Challenger jet promoting Canadian war artists at every major gallery.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
I’d buy expensive gifts for all my friends, get kickbacks to my political campaign fund from every artist and gallery on my welfare roles, and pretty much use it all to keep myself in power forever. Oh, and no artist would get a dime if they didn’t make propaganda for me.
Isn’t that what public arts funding is supposed to be for?
Gov’t support of the arts is remarkably ineffective,
especially compared with private support.
The occasional commission is about as far as gov’t
spending on the arts should ever go. Even that is
somewhat dubious.
The nutty rich old entrepreneur and the nutty enterprising young artist have
far more in common with each other than either has with a gov’t bureaucrat.
The 15% or so of the votes that are for funding the arts – they are from artists who are entitled to their entitlements.
Rygy,
I think some of those votes are from CBC employees.
You see, Ceeb employees are virtually in the same business as the “artists” that the poll is about.
Both are on the government dole for producing audio and visual entertainment.
You could even say that this CBC poll represents a conflict of interest because the CBC is a stakeholder in exactly the same way that the artists are.
Y’know, there is a guideline that the idiot leftie burueacrats use to determine if a talentless hack “artist” is eligible for taxpayer funding. If said talentless hack produces work that is “not commercially viable” then he can get funding. So Robert Bateman would not be able to get a dime from the government because he is talented and people actually want to buy his work. A douchebag arts major with no viable skills other than serving coffee and whining about how society won’t accept him because he carries a man purse can just put his hand out and another arts major parasite will fill it with cash so he can keep producing art that looks like a 5 year old created it after getting jacked on sugar. Sad. Time to close the wallet and make these retards work for a living and pay their fair share of the taxes.
Now at 88.18% and no doubt climbing, thanks to the Seditious DamnedAnkle-biters from SDA.
I want more of Chaz and dancing with the stars!
I want to see Bridgette,the silly senate page,do some more performance art,preferably while scantily clad or less.
I may not know art,but I know what I like.
I’d fund the Chief of Defense staff airplane, I mean it’s okay for him to fly the cheap seats with classified material but the GG gets a security detail and an airplane.
AHHHHHHHH the sweet sound of a poll that sends the left into spasims.
Well, that was a no-brainer.
So … the top choice in the list is “none of the above”
Must have been designed by and “artist”
I say spend the money on more ‘Bling’ for underprivileged Canadian rap artists.
Imagine what it does the Canadian rapper’s self-esteem not having a $90,000 chain, or a $100,000 grill.
Imagine what it’s like not having an “other other Benz”.
Why not spend the money by paying all Kanuckistani grant seeking artists to attend an inspirational one-way tour to the Falkland Islands? I nominate Margaret Attwood for the pilot program.
Hmmmmm Half of it too Stomping Tom, the other half to canadian war artist……however I do believe Mecheng should get quote of the week!!!!
OMMAG: I’ve now seen that option in three different places on the list. It’s the most scientific thing about this poll, if it randomizes the order of the choices.
It’s the most scientific thing about this poll, if it randomizes the order of the choices.
~Another Calgary Marc
o None of the above, governments shouldn’t be in the arts
Yes, the order of the choices changes randomly, and yes the word is stupidly redundant.
‘Governments shouldn’t be involved in arts funding’ would have be sufficient and better grammar.
It would also be a better poll if there was a running tally of the votes cast, but that would make it more difficult to see if your vote was being diddled by the site itself.
correction:
but that would make it easier to see if your vote was being diddled by the site itself.
Time for me to climb the wooden hill.
Just thought of one of the programs we’ve paid for that would attract lots of attention. Back in the Cretin days a large number of E. European exotic dancers had their immigration fast tracked by one of the Lieberal cabinet ministers.
What we should have now is a free public display of exotic dancing so we can see how these ladies have progressed since their arrival in this country. They could also benefit from this process by having an auction for the provision of private tantric performances with the highest bidder.
Now that would be true art; a celebration of the female form, a type of dance that even males would be interested in and educational value in terms of human anatomic studies.
WOW Wednesday morning and I expected to find a “page not found” yet its still up? Does anyone wonder who the PMO has placed at the CBC to make it happen? HUH
It’s sad to think that the Arts Education Alliance of Manitoba has convinced the NDP gov’t that art education(dance,music,visual,drama) is as important as reading, writing, math, and actual thinking.
Public schools are more concerned with recycling and useless arts education. I feel bad for thew good teachers out there who are disgusted by this.
“how would you spend our money?”
I guess they are calling the Tax Dollars “Our Money” CBC’s Money.
I would pay a four year old fifty bucks to trace the words “Get lost CBC you are closed for buisness.”
That my friends would be the extent of money spent on the CBC and their Arts.
Great poll! Set up for DEFEAT!!!
On tampons.
Gotta stop the haemorraging somehow…
almost 80% for government “shall not!”
HAHAHAHAHA
Clear your cache and cookies.
Keep voting.
There was no place to vote for “Immediately close all our offices, resign, and beg forgiveness for being a total nat,” so I just went with the other 80% of the poll that said they had no business fooling in the Arts.
Oz we don’t have to the truth is better.
My ‘get stuffed’ vote vote = 83.3%
Yes, but 16.7 % didn’t vote ‘get Stuffed’.
Oz we don’t have to the truth is better.
~FREE
A taxpayer voting multiple times on a CBC internet poll is the truth.
It doesn’t get any better.
“Comments on this story are pre-moderated. Before they appear, comments are reviewed by moderators to ensure they meet our submission guidelines”.
Figures.
Considering how much tax I pay I should be able to vote at least 10 times in that poll. Even so, I’m a bit surprised to see that much public “support” for state subsidized “artists”. It’s amazing that whenever I see a POS which is considered to be “art”, it universally turns out to be something that I’ve involuntarily paid for. OTOH, when I run into a piece of art that I really like, it’s the product of a non-state supported artist.
Simple solution to improve the quality of art – let buyers decide whether a piece of art is worth their money. Lots of tax savings and all that would be necessary to get the state supported “artists” to be gainfully employed is to teach them when to say “do you want fries with that order”.
The CBC vote link has been hacked, as soon as you click on vote you get redirected to a Honda advert…..
Artists in the Schools is one of the most pernicious uses of taxpayers’ dollars going. I’ve watched some of these barf-fests in school auditoriums and its simply make-work for someone’s kids, likely the kids of pols or teachers.
Whatever. The “artistic” fare, let alone flare, is completely lacking and they’re usually pushing a “progressive” agenda. In one play I saw, Prince Harry (of England) was a life-sized, cut-out “character” who was ridiculed and laughed at. Hey, Canadian kids, show contempt for the British Royal Family. That’s cool.
NO. MORE. TAXPAYER. MONEY. FOR. THE. ARTS.
Let them raise their own.
I really like Robert Bateman’s work. However, he is not considered an “artist” by the Arts Council, because (wait for it) he’s commercially viable….
87.89% against funding
Does anyone know what CBC has done with Digital TV?
It used to come in fine now its crap
As a “regular” school subject I have nothing against art classes in primary grades. After that it should be a elective subject, vying for a cut of the education budget like all the other departments. It is when art supersedes the core subjects that I get PO’d.
btw, as far as post-secondary education, I have no problem with students earning a Barely Able (BA) as long as they sign a waiver declaring that they realize they are not guaranteed the world or even a job when they finish.
@Texas Canuck
Every student of every faculty should sign one.
CBC apparatchik: “OMG, another poll gone horribly wrong! Public opinion is still contrary to our conditioning. Quick yank it from the website before some blogger gets a screen shot.
While we’re on the subject of confiscatory taxation without representation in Manitoba …
Why is it that the government owned liquor store, where I’m forced to pay $30.00 for a bottle of vodka that retails for $3.00 in its country of origin, is allowed to ask every customer for a $1.00 donation to some charity at the checkout counter? Have customers not been raped hard enough already? Liquor store robberies work in reverse in upside-down-land Canada.
.. which reminds me. A good response to the “would you like to donate a dollar to ____ ?” is “No thanks, I’ve already donated.”
Tony: they declined to participate in the conversion to digital along with the private broadcasters that were forced to, b/c they “can’t afford to” upgrade their transmitters. Leaving aside that they had the same warning as everyone else, it’s a pretty good example of mismanagement and how they’re professional supplicants at the government teat.
I’d spend the entire budget on a series of ten air-brushed motorcycle helmets originating from Delisle, Saskatchewan
I think you can vote more than once with this poll – I have.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Another cbc poll goes horribly wrong!
Keep the arts goons away from my wallet.
If I wish to fund the arts, I can write a cheque myself, I don’t need some slack jawed government bureaucrat to do it for me.
If I choose to fund culture in some way, it reflects my culture, if the mouth breathing arts grant bureaucrat hands them my money, it’s his culture, not mine.
It is VERY exciting to see the nanny state ask us lil’ peons which drain they should throw our money down!
“If you were in charge of spending tax dollars for the arts, how would you spend our money?”
I’d fund General Walt Natynczyk to fly around the country in a Challenger jet promoting Canadian war artists at every major gallery.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
I’d buy expensive gifts for all my friends, get kickbacks to my political campaign fund from every artist and gallery on my welfare roles, and pretty much use it all to keep myself in power forever. Oh, and no artist would get a dime if they didn’t make propaganda for me.
Isn’t that what public arts funding is supposed to be for?
Gov’t support of the arts is remarkably ineffective,
especially compared with private support.
The occasional commission is about as far as gov’t
spending on the arts should ever go. Even that is
somewhat dubious.
The nutty rich old entrepreneur and the nutty enterprising young artist have
far more in common with each other than either has with a gov’t bureaucrat.
The 15% or so of the votes that are for funding the arts – they are from artists who are entitled to their entitlements.
Rygy,
I think some of those votes are from CBC employees.
You see, Ceeb employees are virtually in the same business as the “artists” that the poll is about.
Both are on the government dole for producing audio and visual entertainment.
You could even say that this CBC poll represents a conflict of interest because the CBC is a stakeholder in exactly the same way that the artists are.
Y’know, there is a guideline that the idiot leftie burueacrats use to determine if a talentless hack “artist” is eligible for taxpayer funding. If said talentless hack produces work that is “not commercially viable” then he can get funding. So Robert Bateman would not be able to get a dime from the government because he is talented and people actually want to buy his work. A douchebag arts major with no viable skills other than serving coffee and whining about how society won’t accept him because he carries a man purse can just put his hand out and another arts major parasite will fill it with cash so he can keep producing art that looks like a 5 year old created it after getting jacked on sugar. Sad. Time to close the wallet and make these retards work for a living and pay their fair share of the taxes.
Now at 88.18% and no doubt climbing, thanks to the Seditious Damned Ankle-biters from SDA.
I want more of Chaz and dancing with the stars!
I want to see Bridgette,the silly senate page,do some more performance art,preferably while scantily clad or less.
I may not know art,but I know what I like.
I’d fund the Chief of Defense staff airplane, I mean it’s okay for him to fly the cheap seats with classified material but the GG gets a security detail and an airplane.
AHHHHHHHH the sweet sound of a poll that sends the left into spasims.
Well, that was a no-brainer.
So … the top choice in the list is “none of the above”
Must have been designed by and “artist”
I say spend the money on more ‘Bling’ for underprivileged Canadian rap artists.
Imagine what it does the Canadian rapper’s self-esteem not having a $90,000 chain, or a $100,000 grill.
Imagine what it’s like not having an “other other Benz”.
Why not spend the money by paying all Kanuckistani grant seeking artists to attend an inspirational one-way tour to the Falkland Islands? I nominate Margaret Attwood for the pilot program.
Hmmmmm Half of it too Stomping Tom, the other half to canadian war artist……however I do believe Mecheng should get quote of the week!!!!
OMMAG: I’ve now seen that option in three different places on the list. It’s the most scientific thing about this poll, if it randomizes the order of the choices.
It’s the most scientific thing about this poll, if it randomizes the order of the choices.
~Another Calgary Marc
o None of the above, governments shouldn’t be in the arts
Yes, the order of the choices changes randomly, and yes the word is stupidly redundant.
‘Governments shouldn’t be involved in arts funding’ would have be sufficient and better grammar.
It would also be a better poll if there was a running tally of the votes cast, but that would make it more difficult to see if your vote was being diddled by the site itself.
correction:
but that would make it easier to see if your vote was being diddled by the site itself.
Time for me to climb the wooden hill.
Just thought of one of the programs we’ve paid for that would attract lots of attention. Back in the Cretin days a large number of E. European exotic dancers had their immigration fast tracked by one of the Lieberal cabinet ministers.
What we should have now is a free public display of exotic dancing so we can see how these ladies have progressed since their arrival in this country. They could also benefit from this process by having an auction for the provision of private tantric performances with the highest bidder.
Now that would be true art; a celebration of the female form, a type of dance that even males would be interested in and educational value in terms of human anatomic studies.
WOW Wednesday morning and I expected to find a “page not found” yet its still up? Does anyone wonder who the PMO has placed at the CBC to make it happen? HUH
It’s sad to think that the Arts Education Alliance of Manitoba has convinced the NDP gov’t that art education(dance,music,visual,drama) is as important as reading, writing, math, and actual thinking.
Public schools are more concerned with recycling and useless arts education. I feel bad for thew good teachers out there who are disgusted by this.