tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post3839838075798692778..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Considering the N.H.P.R.C.’s Grants BudgetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-71137878800889530682011-01-18T21:54:57.232-05:002011-01-18T21:54:57.232-05:00On the political side, all I can offer is that:
(...On the political side, all I can offer is that:<br /><br />(a) with the Congress divided between the two parties, the budget will be a compromise. Programs seen to have the broadest support from voters of both parties will be the first to be funded.<br /><br />(a) the minority party in the House has much less influence than the minority party in the Senate.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-68607635418583898812011-01-18T20:48:56.655-05:002011-01-18T20:48:56.655-05:00As to whether we can have guns AND butter, that is...As to whether we can have guns AND butter, that is a difficult question. What do we give up to get what we want? The government does not have rooms full of money, just waiting to be spent on something, a la Scrooge McDuck. This takes money which might Congress might budget for something else. (But, living in a constitutional republic is like that.... )<br /><br />Best to contact your senators and representatives and tell them how you feel! <br /><br />And write it in a letter- email gets a canned reply.RFullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-58786532805229347792011-01-18T14:59:58.341-05:002011-01-18T14:59:58.341-05:00I did the lazy thing and looked on the “About NHPR...I did the lazy thing and looked on the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/about/" rel="nofollow">“About NHPRC” webpage</a>. Plus, <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/summer/dateline/" rel="nofollow">this agency timeline</a> and a report on the first forty years of grants (<a href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/about/chronology.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF download</a>). <br /><br />It looks like the commission was established in 1934 as part of the New Deal, but had little or no funding for years. In the 1940s it didn’t even meet. Then the Federal Records Act of 1950 established a small staff and a mission to support the publication of historically significant archives. <br /><br />I don’t know what’s significant about the 1968 act in that report on government agencies. It may have been a reauthorization of an existing program, but that year isn’t noted as significant milestone in any other description of the agency.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-74517346676619385872011-01-18T13:43:13.276-05:002011-01-18T13:43:13.276-05:00I'm curious, where did you get the 1934 and 19...I'm curious, where did you get the 1934 and 1964 dates? According to the NARA itself, the commission was established by an act of Congress on Oct. 22, 1968 and got it's present name in 1974.<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=3G7H56q6oVAC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=%22national+historical+publications+and+records+commission%22+abolish&source=bl&ots=KtXW-_O2Yc&sig=Uhg39h4AXPVHT3-2eel1-8bBl1w&hl=en&ei=n9Y1TZ-9AYSglAe__eGuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=falseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64330807707732291592011-01-18T12:00:30.649-05:002011-01-18T12:00:30.649-05:00Well said! Thanks for this post.Well said! Thanks for this post.Nate Maashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205088028505450499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89704477599951978622011-01-18T10:43:32.415-05:002011-01-18T10:43:32.415-05:00To put the funding in perspective, according to da...To put the funding in perspective, according to data on the National Archives link, the total cost of the Massachusetts preservation and publication programs over the last 35 years is about $18.5 million, or roughly one twentieth the cost of a single F-22 Raptor fighter jet, of which we are building 187. <br /><br />A thought: Perhaps we could manage to get by with just 185 F-22's and fund the preservation of our historical patrimony for the next quarter of a century.G. Lovelynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-29449569616992987132011-01-18T09:48:35.195-05:002011-01-18T09:48:35.195-05:00Is there something we can do other than contact ou...Is there something we can do other than contact our representative?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com