"Take arts funding, for example."

"Take arts funding, for example. Some Americans appear to believe that there would be no arts in America if it were not for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an institution created in 1965.  They cannot imagine things being done any other way, even though they were done another way throughout our country's existence, and throughout most of mankind's history.  While the government requested $121 million for the NEA in 2006, private donations to the arts totaled $2.5 billion that year, dwarfing the NEA budget.  The NEA represents a tiny fraction of all arts funding, a fact few Americans realize.  Freedom works after all." -Page 75 of The Revolution, A Manifesto