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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (36013)2/26/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Brad Bolen  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Pilch,

RE: This addresses nothing (!) of what I have said about why many
>>> conservatives reject the current education system. You claimed in
>>> your message to Michelle that “Conservatives are against the NEA
>>>like they are the public school system”. I told you a few reasons
>>> why this is true and then I told you that nevertheless
>>> conservatives were not against public education.

I posted previously what I was told by your Majority leader, and The Lush Bimbaugh host. I see no need in debating you on what YOU believe about (many) conservatives mood towards public education. There are plenty of conservatives that would love to see it go by-by. I know it, the public school system knows it, politicians know it. You don't. So again, not much I can say to prove it to you.

You post, with great redundancy, statements like the following:

>>> You do not trust the market and so you aim to circumvent it,
>>> forcing the participants therein to support what they otherwise
>>> would reject as trash.

That sums up your point, doesn't it?

If you subject music (only) to the market, then you will get market music...disposable music designed to sell. Thus the term 'commercial music.'

You throw the word 'trash' around frequently. What the NEA does isn't to provide reckless amatuers a chance to give up their day job. Rather, it insures that some of man's greatest ideas and achievement survive -- just as you (apparently) agree that the ideas put forth in public schools should survive and have a forum to be delivered. You believe the market is always right as to the quality of the product. I do not. It is both hilarious and pitiful that anyone would suggest that the only ideas worth keeping in this world are the 'marketable' ones.

You state: " I am sure Beethoven will
survive, even if only in my studio."

You think so little of Beethoven.

B.
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