Current Events
Symbolic Politics and Fiscal Conservatism
Here's a bit of symbolic politics from the right. The US debt is a problem. (So far, so good). So how do we combat it? Cut funding to NPR!
Meanwhile, as Art Carden notes, yesterday the US and its allies fired 110 tomahawk missiles at targets in Libya, at a price tag of approximately $569,000 each. Take about 7 of those missiles and you've already surpassed the amount of money NPR receives directly from the federal government each year.
Ron Paul notes the hypocrisy.
The bottom line: if you claim to be a fiscal conservative and you aren't anti-war, then you're not really fiscally conservative.