re: #101 BishopX

The thing about the Cowboy poetry festival is that it’s such a trivial amount of federal money (47,000 a year iirc), but it spawned a wonderful local festival which generates millions of dollars for the town. By that standard it’s a wonderful investment.

Except of course that ideologues like Sarah believe that the only investments that count are those done by private persons and corporations, but particularly corporations. They see things like this as a “waste,” since if it was such a good investment, it would have been fully funded through private money and not required any federal dollars.