Not a single one of the comments on this article in any way address the Alaska specifics of the article. These commenters have skimmed over the content to get to what they want: airing out their ire at the process of funding community good. The pennies, the literal pennies they all contribute for these federal programs provide infinite benefit for our culture and the individual artists that benefit from these monies. 

I find it both unsurprising and frustrating that the commenters go straight to "Piss Christ" and spend no time discussing the Raven's Tail Robes, or the visual art in Glen Alps, or any of the other artistic impressions that are funded by this stream. 

I genuinely weep for a society so attached to its propaganda that it bitterly scorns the very thing that separates us from our myriad brethren on the evolutionary tree. Our higher order calling to create art is worth more than any vicious bomb you may have sought to produce with decades' worth of funding.