Where are the Swells?

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is calculated to rouse the economy, create and protect jobs, and invest in key priorities, alleged Governor Douglas.

Keeping the spirit of t he American Recovery and Reinvestment Act alive in Vermont, Governor Douglas achieves this by awarding Gold Shovels to 42 Vermont arts organizations totaling $606,000 through Porkulus (ARRA). These grants taxes will help preserve jobs in Vermont’s nonprofit arts sector that have been threatened by declines.

So where are the liberal lovers of the arts? The NPR listeners, who constantly harangue us. Why are you not leaping into the breach, fetching out the checkbook and quill and dashing off a doubling donation.

Waiting for the Philistines loot?

Isn’t this simply marvelous?
The $9,200 allows the VSO to play Happy Days are Here Again for those queued up at E&T or Family Services.
While Dad is there, he can have his face painted by a working artist, might as well look good for the non-existent job interview.

Middlebury lucked out too! Folk life in the Shire town gets archived by a real live Archivist at the Vermont Folk life Center for the munificent sum of $10,000. Evidently, this also keeps the Center’s Director of Education from begging on the street.
One would have thought the College could have “coughed” up this loose change from the Biomess plant savings.

Vermont has a surfeit of non-profit jobs. Even those intended to be for profit aren’t, witness the dairy farmers. As for the rest, the Marxist in the Legislature are working very hard on either making them non-profit or running them out of the state.
With that, we have a NON-PROFIT NIRVANA, where quality of life reigns supreme.

The Stimulus funds enable us to continue staff and programs at current levels and to add back an important artist residency. Both are hugely important to Burlington’s downtown economy and the quality of life of the region, said Andrea Rogers, Executive Director and CEO, Flynn Theater, Burlington

You BETCHA, Andrea!