dollars, between $10,000 and $200,000 a grant? >>guest: maybe we should give taxpayer money to ping-pong players because some could think ping-pong is an art but to me ping-pong is a game. look, i was a music major in college and i love the arts but when tens of millions of americans are out of work, there is so much pain and suffering, and there is so much uncertainty about the budget crisis, our government seems to be stretching the limits of wastefulness, not containing it. so many of the programs what lofty goals but now they are a perversion of the original intention. does anyone believe we should borrow 43 cents of each dollar to produce video games? that is absurd. >>dave: the national endowment of arts, tens of billions in these tight economic times when