For years Convention of States Project Senior Advisor and former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn has pointed to the massive amounts of waste, duplication, and fraud in the federal budget.
"Today’s federal budget is littered with economic superfund sites -- cesspools of waste, duplication, cronyism and parochialism," he said in an op-ed. "Cleaning up these sites will heal, rather hurt, our economy."
The latest example in the "waste" category comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is using taxpayer money to fund some incredibly outrageous projects.
As the Washington Free Beacon reports,
The National Endowment for the Arts is funding a progressive rendition of Pride and Prejudice, a choreographed traffic jam, and a play about climate change causing the end of the world.
Aside from spending $20,000 on a musical about a lesbian illegal immigrant in love with an ICE agent and giving $100,000 to the theater company that put on a Trump assassination play, the NEA's list of new grants includes numerous frivolous art projects.
Numerous grants are dedicated to the issue of climate change. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received $60,000 for performances and workshops on climate change and a curriculum for public schools on "food justice."
The federal budget is a mess, but you can be a part of the solution. An Article V Convention of States can propose constitutional amendments that force Congress to be fiscally responsible.
By encouraging your state legislators to call a Convention of States, you can play a crucial role in the history of our nation by helping to address the fiscal woes plaguing D.C.
