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Originally Posted by pan6467
I didn't say I trusted them.... I stated time after time they are a start.
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They're not necessarily a start to anything positive, though. If, as has been reported, they are whine sessions for people angry to find themselves in the minority, you won't see constructive use of what could have been, as you say, "a start". They may even be a start of something quite bad if they further galvanize the extreme right.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
I think the government is too big and spends too much. I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one that believes this, except pan maybe. I have no clue what the other hundreds of thousands of people who are going to be attending these tea party protests are really protesting, except maybe they really think that tea tax is too high now.
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I think the government spends too much and doesn't tax enough. The federal and state governments should always be a careful balancing act between reasonable surplus when there's nothing cataclysmic going on and slight deficit when things have gone to hell. The problem is that, regardless of political ideology, when people actually get into a position to do something about this they find that raising taxes and reducing spending is political suicide. Bush was, before becoming president, a conservative. He believed in small government, as insane as that sounds now.
Conservative politicians don't believe in small government at all, just their constituents, and I'm pretty sure it's only a few of those constituents that really, honestly understand what smaller government would mean.