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To: AmericanChef
If you're financially conservative but socially liberal, you'll end up voting on the side of your social causes, meaning more gubmint money,

Not so. I'm financially very conservative and socially very liberal. "Do whatever you like, but do it on your own dime" is my philosophy in a nutshell. And I don't think government should be undertaking social engineering programs of ANY kind. I don't want to be forced to pay for abstinence programs, and I don't want to be forced to pay for how-to-put-a-condom-on-a-cucumber programs.

41 posted on 05/31/2006 2:13:41 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"Do whatever you like, but do it on your own dime" is my philosophy in a nutshell. And I don't think government should be undertaking social engineering programs of ANY kind.

Ditto. On economic matters there's a fairly simple continuum from liberalism to conservatism. But on social issues, many conservatives and liberals agree that the government should be promoting, subsidizing, and/or banning certain actions, they just disagree on what those actions are. Social conservatives want government to promote abstinence and throw you in prison for smoking a joint. Social liberals want government to promote "tolerance" of homosexuals and throw you in prison for "hate speech". Libertarians are really the only ones wanting the government to stay out of our personal lives as much as possible.

62 posted on 05/31/2006 2:40:33 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent (Chloe rocks)
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