Comments on: Good-Bye Georgia Council For the Arts? http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: nelliebelle1197 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/#comment-36086 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:33:51 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-36086 This actually sounds like a good argument for the public option. The robust public option.

]]> By: nelliebelle1197 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/#comment-36085 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-36085 I hate to disagree with you Gibbsy, but I think art has been defining culture and educating people since, well, the first people. From tribal storytellers to cave drawings to Michaelangelo to Shakespeare to Sarah Bernhardt and onward and backwards, the need for the arts and creative expression have defined humanity in the way nothing else but our need for religion has defined us. The free market is a relatively new concept and I have a very funny feeling the arts will outlast the market.

]]> By: "Naaman" Gibbets http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/#comment-36075 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:22:12 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-36075 Nelle, I hear an echo…

Blah blahblah blah blahblahblah…nine-eleven!

]]> By: "Naaman" Gibbets http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/#comment-36074 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:20:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-36074 An appeal to emotion will help no one–Clairemont, I think, was referring to the educational qualities of “the Arts”. What kind of art do you like, George? Does it come down to taste?

Since the Enlightenment–the arts have helped educate people. Is it waste?

]]> By: George http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/04/14/good-bye-georgia-council-for-the-arts/#comment-36062 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:32:34 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-36062 DM- I’d say it’s rather obvious!

The courts have occasionally stretched this clause to decide on what citizens may *not* do. The courts have never used (as far as I can tell) the commerce clause to force private individuals to take action in a private marketplace! The rational being that NOT doing something affects interstate commerce(!!!).

There is no constitutional basis for this. The may not be able to overturn it. But it’s outrageous! What’s next?

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