Transcribed from Fox this morning, couldn't find a link yet.
We taxpayers have paid for:
National Endowment for the Humanities:
More than half a million of our taxes to study starvation in Russia
$350,000 to investigate the cultural significance of a circus poster
More than $100,000 to research Brazilian literature
$400,000 for an exhibit exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for poet Emily Dickinson
$226,502 for 16 University profs to spend six weeks in Shanghai and Berlin studying urban modernism
$199,756 for 25 college profs to spend five weeks at the Oxford Center in England to study the midieval conception of Jewish otherness
$40,000 for an interactive website to bring the Bible to a general audience
$700,776 for a two hour movie to study China's cultural revolution for BBC in England. We can pay for it again for $25 for the DVD
$725,000 for two hour documentary on the history of American whaling
$503,216 for a variety of Shakespearian projects including radio programs examining issues in current Shakespeare scholarship. Also a Shakespeare encyclopedia
$2.5 Million over five years to digitize the history of Afghanistan for archival recordings of radio Afghanistan
$167,000 for four weeks for teachers to go to Harvard to see how British and American poetry reflects patterns of life
We taxpayers have paid for:
National Endowment for the Humanities:
More than half a million of our taxes to study starvation in Russia
$350,000 to investigate the cultural significance of a circus poster
More than $100,000 to research Brazilian literature
$400,000 for an exhibit exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for poet Emily Dickinson
$226,502 for 16 University profs to spend six weeks in Shanghai and Berlin studying urban modernism
$199,756 for 25 college profs to spend five weeks at the Oxford Center in England to study the midieval conception of Jewish otherness
$40,000 for an interactive website to bring the Bible to a general audience
$700,776 for a two hour movie to study China's cultural revolution for BBC in England. We can pay for it again for $25 for the DVD
$725,000 for two hour documentary on the history of American whaling
$503,216 for a variety of Shakespearian projects including radio programs examining issues in current Shakespeare scholarship. Also a Shakespeare encyclopedia
$2.5 Million over five years to digitize the history of Afghanistan for archival recordings of radio Afghanistan
$167,000 for four weeks for teachers to go to Harvard to see how British and American poetry reflects patterns of life
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