Is the Cowboy Poetry Festival an effective use of tax payer's money?

Question

"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, March 2011

Answer 1

Is the Cowboy Poetry Festival an effective use of taxpayer money?



Of course not. Neither was using taxpayer money back in the late 70's to fund studies of the mating habits of earthworms in the name of "science".

Answer 2

Most federal government programs are NOT an effective use of taxpayers money and should be left to the states.

If northern Nevada should decide to spend their tax dollars for "cowboy poetry festival", more power to them, just like if those in Oregon would like to hold an annual salmon festival with their tax dollars.

Answer 3

It seems to be more effective than all those billions of dollars your government is pouring into the morass of Afghanistan. How about you let the gay cowboys have their poetry, and stop blowing up Afghan wedding parties?

Answer 4

Yonder in the night I saw a light, without fright I reached to hold it tight, It faded quicky and was no longer bright, ahhh what a sight, that light on a night like tonight. Theirs your 2 cents worth. haaaahhhhh.

Answer 5

It could be But since neither one of us has an ROI for the event we don't know if it's an effective use of taxpayer money

Answer 6

Absolutely not



Take all that money and put it into our crumbling infrastructure or use it to pay down the debt

Answer 7

It must be, it's all Reid talks about.

Glad to our our beloved Senate Majority Leader has America's back.

Answer 8

It's more effective use than Boy George's war based on lies in Iraq. Or B0ehner's useless 500 million jet engine the Pentagon didn't even want (to be built in his district of course).

Answer 9

Is that the tea bagger party patriots?

Answer 10

You don't think funding for the arts is important?

Answer 11

No. poetry is gay.