This Orange County resident is pining away for the good ‘ole days of FDR, and she’s getting what she wants. Elizabeth McManus is delighted to tell readers of the Chapel Hill News that she thinks President Obama, by pledging boatloads of taxpayer cash to the National Endowment for the Arts, realizes there’s no government business like show business.
This will help employee the nation’s 2 million professional artists. When compared to 2.2 million military personnel this is an enormous portion of the U.S. workforce, many of whom survive off of grants endowed by the NEA.
Like Franklin Roosevelt’s Workers Progress Administration that commissioned the Federal Theatre Project President Obama has recognized there is one industry that will always stimulate the economy: show business.
You notice she never mentions private money or the private sector.
