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Originally Posted by Larry Smithee ...Clearly these single sentence snips at politicians can be fun but ultimately not very useful. God forbid if we allowed the board to be polluted with facts. It seems to me, but apparently not to all, that the dividing line between liberals and conservatives is very ambiguous and unclear. For example, the current conservative administration has greatly increased the size and expense of the federal government under the Homeland Security Act, The record budget deficit also give the lie to “conservative” fiscal management. The Bush administration has also increased the power of government over its citizens under the Patriot Act, which limits or eliminates many of our protections under the Bill of Rights. |
OK, since you are so big on facts, lets have them. This is just a perception put forth by the media and the Dems. Where is the proof for these claims?
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Originally Posted by Larry Smithee ...Bush is supporting the authorization of interstate toll roads (a tax) and taxes on online Internet sales, both are serious tax levees. |
Do you have a reference for this somewhere as well?
Conservatives, by definition want smaller, limited government and lower taxes. President Bush is conservative on many issues, but overall he is moderate in my book. As for Clinton/Gore 'smaller' govt. the drastic cuts were made in defense spending, (the top priority of our gov.) while socialist spending kept growing.
In the conservative opinion the US federal government has grown ridiculously large and taken on so many projects that it has no right being involved in. The federal govt. should ONLY be involved with issues of national security, NOT education, NOT healthcare, NOT liberal arts, NOT civilian disability, NOT minimum wage, NOT civilian retirement...
When the federal govt. got into these areas it started raising taxes, unconstitutionally. The IRS became powerful. All forms of lobbying appeared to get their own pet programs and tax exemptions. We don't need better "policies, proposals, performance" in Washington, DC. We need the fed. govt. to do its constitutional job and nothing more.
Greg