Reply #8: The difference is that [View All]

you're at ease about it and I'm not. Further, I'd probably be likely to vote third-party if the Democrats ever ran someone who really disgusted me, and less likely to automatically sign off on new government programs than you. I support programs only when I look at them and see the government being a good steward of money. That isn't always the case.

Another possible example: although I support helping the poor / elderly / disabled, I do not support federal money going to the arts. That should be state and local, as should school lunches (so as not to get some fuckhead calling ketchup a vegetable). I do not support taking money from a family of four in Kansas to send money to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think politicians of both parties should be imprisoned for wasteful pork spending - eventually, Social Security will again have to be bolstered by a tax hike or a benefit cut, and that wouldn't have been necessary if these bastards weren't spending our money on $248 million bridges to towns of 50 people or $11 million bus stops.

But social spending isn't what bothers me so much right now - I've got time to piss and moan about that later - it's foreign spending and domestic spying. Both are parts of Big Government, and neither are going away.