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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (261)	1/10/2001 11:11:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That is not the way our government was set up. The whole premise of our constitution is that there are "Certain Inalienable Rights" that we have. And it is "We the People" who give the power to the government, not the government who gives us rights. I guess that this means that if the Bush administration manages to restrict a woman's right to have an abortion, you would resign yourself to the situation and say "them's the breaks". If I were a woman, I would be saying "who the hell are you to tell me what to do with my body, it is my right to determine if I will be pregnant or not, and I don't give you, the government, the power to take that right away from me". But you are right, the scenario I described is unwieldy and the NEA would handle it in a bureaucratic way. And that is why they should stay the hell out of the funding of art. To me, there is something obscene about having art and bureaucracy discussed in the same breath.