Conservatives have always held that people know better than government how to spend money. That's the catchphrase they've always used with "liberals" to justify lower taxes. Lets harken back to classic Greek logic to learn something about the modern day "conservatives."
1. The majority of the population does not support the war in Iraq.
2. The "conservative" government" has made it clear that they will not leave Iraq and will continue to fund all Iraq War operations with taxpayer money.
3. Therefore, the "conservatives" feel that they know better than the people how their money should be spent.
Simple as that. These people are not conservative at all. They may say that they have cut taxes to allow the people to spend their money as they see fit. But this isn't true. They've overseen the greatest spending increase since the so called "Great Society" of LBJ...maybe ever earlier. So they've been masters over a massive expansion of government decision making...and cloak this under some tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich. This is not conservatism...it is irresponsibility masked by good powerpoint presentations and well crafted talking points. Tomorrow vote Democrat, independent, or abstain.
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The social conservatives got Roberts and that twerp Alito. What did the fiscal conservatives get?
P.S. Utah is flush with Homeland Security money, thanks to our porker in chief, Orrin Hatch.
My point was towards the fiscal conservatism claims. The Alito/Roberts deal was pure authoritarianism...hoping to control morality. Their philosophy is all about controlling everything in your brain. It's anti-Freedom in its purest.
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