How much spending is wasteful spending, on the local level that is?

According to a local weekly rag, the tax money that was spent on this years inaugural HATCH  Festival came to $30,000 . . .   $30k that the city of Asheville is not getting back in the time of a recession so that about 20-30 people can throw their own little party at the tax payer expense.  It was held in bars and clubs, it wasn't real festival and no one even new about it.  But thats what this town does spend public money on a few of the "loud crowd".

Same with everything else in this town from the dreaded rust art to the drum circle that pollutes pritchard park in the summer months.  This town DOES NOT care about its local citizens, it only caters to the freaky bunch that add nothing to the Asheville society.  Wastes $30,000 on 20 or so people so they can feel good for a weekend.  Thirty Thousand Dollars can buy a lot of groceries for a struggling family.  Clean up down town, 1 year teacher salary, almost enough to pay for another police officer or firemen, but no they will furlough area teachers and let these folks party for a weekend on tax payer dime.  Thanks Asheville City council, your just great.

You read that right, this so called festival was aimed toward; artists, entertainers and other self proclaimed individuals.  Now the festival organizers say this tax dump was in the works for 2 years but not a single piece of advertising appeared until 2 weeks before hand.  Hell the when monster truck rally's come to the area we see ads for those things for MONTHS ahead of time.  So it came and some even called in to question how professional the so called professionals of their field actually were.  Well in a town that you can call yourself something it automatically makes it so, because no one will check to make sure you are what you say you are.  When doctors have a convention they have DOCTORS giving lectures they just don't invite anyone to speak that says they are a doctor without check first.  They just don't think, none of them beforehand, it sounds like a good idea so lets do it, especially with tax payer money.

Well to put it bluntly, every idiot in the Asheville area claims to be an "Artist" of some sort, and no they fail miserably at this act.  Every unoriginal moron thinks they can open an art gallery or art museum, and even the artist itself will flood the area with their crap drowning out the real talent.  Even the graffiti artists get encouraged by these morons into their craft and mantra "An blank space on a building is just a blank canvass".  Not all that glitters is gold in Asheville and you see these folks flock together patting each other on the back and pouring piss into each others boot is the problem.

Friends yes, but these people go beyond that encouraging someone to produce their "Art" even though well just because it,s different doesn't make it art.  This goes for photographers too, if I see the same picture taken from town mountain road, from the same spot one more time, Im going to scream.  And no leaving the shutter on for the trails effect isn't cool anymore its over played.  And taking a picture of rust art turning it black and white is not original or edgy, is pathetic and played out.

Get a clue, your not artists your just a bunch of spoiled individuals made to believe that you are special by someone along the way when your just as special as anyone else, your not.  Your also not artists but call yourself such so you don't have to go by another title transient, and unemployed.  You painted a picture, took a photo, welded some metal together, or played with your own feces, good for you what do you want?  Recognition?  Only from your small minded friends and buddy's that want something. . . . Think about it.