Artistes: Portraits of Selfishness
The screaming harpie of Canadian cultural handouts - Margaret Atwood - is upset because British Columbia is cutting arts funding to pay for the Olympic Albatross that hangs from the collective necks of the Canadian taxpayer.
Members of Canada’s arts elite are banding together to mount a high-level fight against recently announced cuts to arts funding in British Columbia.
Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland and Sarah McLachlan are among the artists named in a campaign being launched today. Organizers are hoping to use the star power to reverse what they say are devastating cuts to arts and culture funding.
“We felt these cuts were so outrageous that we were going to be able to get everybody instantly on side,” said Lindsay Brown of Stop B.C. Arts Cuts. “Everybody I asked said yes.”
Ok, so the artistes are upset about arts cuts. Fair enough. But may I remind you of this?
Upwards of 2,500 patients waiting for surgery for everything from blocked arteries to cancer to hernias will find their elective surgeries postponed during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
In a pair of decisions just now becoming public, the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health Authorities say they have decided to cut by 35 per cent the number of elective surgeries performed over a one-month period in February and March, 2010.
If The Atwood and other sub-par Canadian artists actually gave a damn about the people of the country, they would have either shut up entirely, or protested cutting surgeries instead of grants for bad poetry and boring paintings.
But, alas…
Ms. Atwood finds it maddening. “Why is the B.C. government cutting the throat of B.C.’s economy and its creative future in this short-sighted and frankly really dumb way?” she e-mailed The Globe and Mail yesterday.
The throat of the economy? Seriously? How does this woman look at herself every morning?
Thanks to Obama our American cousins will now enjoy the horrors of a socialist medical system.
Obama loves poetry as well.
People not so much.
Comment by Revnant Dream — October 2, 2009 @ 12:15 am
Nice observation. I’ve seen you on the M. Coren show and decided to check your blog. I’m not disappointed!
Comment by George Grie — October 2, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Over at my place I quote a subsidy publisher who seems to believe only lefty cultural “workers” even read. No, seriously.
Warning, smugness alert…you may toss your uncultured cookies.
Comment by Jay Currie — October 4, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
All governments should cut all so called arts funding. If they cannot make it on their own feet they are a failure and should get a job. They are also a big drain on the taxpayer.
Comment by Pissedoff — October 6, 2009 @ 1:42 pm