Noted with alarm!

"(T)he National Endowment for the Arts, whose budget is a paltry $161 million, finds itself once again on the Republicans’ spacious chopping block, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. These potential cuts, almost microscopic in the grand scheme of the nation’s genuinely bloated budget, have far more to do with promoting a medieval philosophy than with saving money."