It’s so telling:
Banksters who wrecked our economy are bailed out on our taxpayer dime and allowed to grab off more power and control over the economy than ever before.
While New York City Opera is allowed to shutter with hardly a whimper.
It’s exactly the way that, when Texaco bugged out of its sponsorship of the Met Opera broadcasts in the mid-00s, nary a voice in Washington was raised in protest—let along were any sponsorship offers forthcoming from those quarters.
We can, apparently, affoard a $1.3 trillion military expenditure per annum, but we cannot afford the relatively chump change it would take to put City Opera on a stable financival footing and to enable the prices to revert to popular, as they were intended to be when the company was formed.