Why we can't abolish the National Endowment for the Humanities

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.” -- Harry Reid, U.S. Senate majority leader. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford