"Tens of thousands of people ... would not exist?"

Politico highlights yet another cringe worthy foot-in-mouth moment for the Senate Majority leader today;

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts,” said Reid. “These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

I am intrigued how such a festival creates tens of thousands of people!   Undoubtedly through the same Democratic math that uses Obamacare to remain budget neutral.  I wonder if NYC's Naked Cowboy makes the trip out to Nevada every year.

What we do know is that the Democrats are very unserious about the budget deficits.