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- Chris Bray
- Itinerant historian, former infantry soldier, and the author of "Court-Martial: How Military Justice has Shaped America, from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond," forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
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Aren't NEH grants against your political principles? I suppose it's OK now that there's a Republican in charge of them, though.
What does the NEH consume, like, .0000001 percent of the federal budget? I wave my scepter, and pronounce them fit to live. Especially if they fund cool websites on Shay's Rebellion.
Don't get me wrong: I love the NEH, would triple its funding, and I have more respect for Jim Leach than just about any other living elected Republican. But last week you were pretty harsh on beautification and cultural projects.....
My point wasn't to be harsh on beautification and culture projects as such, but rather to say that government isn't perched on the precipice our political leaders are screeching about. I like our local recreation programs, but I can live without them. California politicians have been talking like we're going to call 911 and get no answer -- but there's lots of other stuff, discretionary stuff that's merely pleasant to have, that we can cut before we get deep into meat and bone.
The town where I used to live, Claremont, famously had a trolley ("intermodal transporation system," in the funding language), funded by an $890,000 state and federal grant, that drove -- mostly empty -- in a little circle around the tiny downtown area. We have tons of that stuff, after some tremendously lucrative tax years for the state, and will do just fine without it.
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