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Philip Pfanstiel's take on
the NEA debate
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The child wept. He screamed, cried, clawed and bit to avoid going
to the doctor's office. The mother was fed up with his antics but
took him to the doctor's because he needed it.
The blood tests and strep screens taken at the doctor's office
showed that the child had meningitis, a swelling of the brain tissue
that can be fatal.
The condition was caught in time and treated appropriately. Fortunately
for the child, his mother was not elected, or she might have taken
the path of least resistance.
The pouting of politicians and the screams of special interests
inundate our society today. These wails drown out reasonable and
needed action.
Take for instance the recent tantrum that occurred when a local
Congressman talked of abolishing the National Endowment of the Arts.
The cry babies quickly came to the defense of the NEA. They extolled
the virtues of the NEA (support of symphonies, operas and museums)
and minimized and excused the excesses (support of hard-core pornographers
and pedophilliacs).
If this same selective judgement was used on Hitler (who revived
the economy, restored national dignity and gave youth purpose) then
he wasn't a bad man, but a hero. This, however, would be wrong,
for a person or project is the sum of all its parts. An occasional
failure is forgivable, but nine million systematic executions or
unabashed support of degenerate filth is not.
The excuse that the NEA gives of its support of the pornographic
and tasteless is that it is art. If this is true, then so were the
lamp shades made out of human skins at Auschwitz.
Honest debate on the future of the NEA is a must if this nation
is to recover from the economic and moral cancer that besieges it.
It is regretful that there aren't more politicians who care more
for the well-being of the constituents than their own approval ratings.
Many of the children that come into my father's office don't
want to be there. But the health of the child is what dictates the
actions taken.
At this point in U.S. history we are at a crossroad. We must
decide whether to face the facts and take the necessary, even painful,
steps (i.e. killing the NEA) or leave it as an inheritance to our
children (those that ate not exploited, abducted and/ or murdered).
Our national debt is approaching five trillion while we cannot
balance the budget for a single year. We ate literally borrowing
on our children's future with no hopes of ever paying the debt.
The moral infrastructure is eroding as fast, if not faster than
the economic. Crimes against women affect one of every four girls
by the time they reach 20. Divorce, murder, theft and disease leave
no family untouched.
What do we do about it? Well, some politicians actually take
action to correct and help heal out nation's wounds. They attempt
to cut needless expense, and clean up the gutter where maggots spawn.
Others say that if you don't want to go to the doctor, then you
don't have to.
I would call that child abuse.
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