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Do You Like Big Government - Well, do you Punk?

June 6, 2008 – 3:47 pm by BH

Eastwood still likes to let his views be known, often forcefully. In 2005, he vowed he’d kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine. This March he was sacked from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California state parks commission for objecting to the building of a toll road through a national forest. But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he’s something of an individualist. “I don’t pay attention to either side,” he claims. “I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair. So I believe in that value of smaller government. Give politicians power and all of a sudden they’ll misuse it on ya.”

From the Guardian. Finally a politician economists can wholeheartedly endorse. For Mayor, President, Senator, whatever Clint wants. I try not to get too political on this site, but if you don’t endorse Clint then it’s between you and his 0.44 Magnum.