Johnny DooWop
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- Very Conservative
Hence, the tea party emergence among the Republican party. Conservatives need to start acting like conservatives.
Cut spending drastically, cut taxes (further in my opinion), and let the free market dig us out of this hole.
The problem is, what power has the government ever released over us once it had obtained it? Obama wants to increase it ten-fold, second term be damned.
I actually really like a lot of financial policies of the Tea Party. Get rid of the IRS and implement a more simple tax system? Great! Demand a balanced budget each year? All for it! Implement more constitutionality in our law making? Hell yes! My main problem is that the Tea Party/GOP financial policies come in a package that includes ultra-social conservatism, aggressive foreign policy, xenophobia and jingoism. The worst thing the Republican party did was let the southern social conservatives infiltrate the party when they jumped ship from the Democrat party after the Civil Rights Movement didn't go their way. If that wouldn't have happened I'd probably be a Republican. I'd rather have higher taxes than live in country where people are discriminated against, wars are constantly waged and where GOP neo-cons try to ratify the separation of church and state clause to make Christianity the official religion of the country.