Wake Up - Debt Ceiling, Cuts and the Arts

Most of the recent news has been concentrating on the battle about increasing the debt ceiling and cuts in government spending.  There has been not been much talk in the press about what the future will hold for arts organizations.  I am not optimistic. 

President Obama said that he is going to make trillions of dollars of cuts to take effect in the next ten years, including entitlement programs.  It seems likely that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will be cut and/or restructured.  The unemployed, marginally employed, workers without medical insurance, the poor and retirees may have to fend for themselves.  Many theatres, museums, galleries and arts organizations will likely close.

Wealthy billionaires like Murdoch can distort and spin doctor the news.  They have convinced the working class that all problems are the result of big government and taxes.  The working class has come to believe that that eliminating the very programs that have kept them out of poverty since the depression is a great idea.  Of course, the millionaires tell us that everything will be fine if we just allow them more wealth, that somehow it will all "trickle down."

Listen people!  The alarm clock has rung and it's time to WAKE UP!. A class war is going on in this country, the wealthy against the poor.  With unregulated money now allowed to go into political campaigns, our political system will cease to be a democracy.  Instead of a debate between two political parties, our laws will be drafted according to what is in the best interest of competing corporations.  What can be done?  Defeat the T-Party!