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Old 04-02-2012, 07:59 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Maybe we'll have a government arts endowment. (I have doubts about this working--not because it wouldn't be effective, but because if we've reached the point of considering public education a form of "socialist welfare," the public's been brainwashed against believing there's a value in widespread access to knowledge of any sort.)
Well, the "socialist welfare" view of public education is a particularly US phenomenon, but the US is likely to pay a heavy price for it. And this is coming from two papers, the FT and the Telegraph, which are firmly on the "non-socialist" end of the spectrum.
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