Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal
March 29th, 2010 | Published in Politics, Quotes | 4 Comments
I am a FCSL. This is a small manifesto.
As a Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal, you dislike heavy government. What really gets you going, however, is government waste. You would like to see people responsible for failed government projects and massive cost overruns fired – and not just politicians. Forcing people to have a stake in the success of what they do is necessary for government as much as it is for free enterprise.
You recognize that all problems cannot be solved simply with the hammer of free enterprise. Some things like Health Care do not conform well to “for profit” models if they are to deliver assistance to all. You believe it is government’s job is to protect the people through regulations that prevent excessiveness by corporations abusing their positions of power to the detriment of the people.
You strongly hold that government should not have to raise taxes to adjust to economic hardships. To this end, you would like the civil service to budget itself like a business instead of like pigs at a trough.
Socially, you believe strongly in the separation of state and religion. You believe in equal rights, are pro-choice when there is a choice to be made, and you support the idea of social safety nets that maintain the stability of society. You disagree with prohibition when it doesn’t work and strongly feel that decisions should be made logically and on the basis of facts, not emotions or faith.
We are centrists and we really would like the political extremists to stop shouting over us.
—comment on “I’m a registered republican, but the majority of my party is insane“
April 10th, 2010 at 2:30 pm (#)
I agree, but how do we bring it back to the middle?
July 29th, 2010 at 11:21 am (#)
I am a male. When someone asks me about abortion, I say, “I don’t want one.” That’s all any man should say. When someone asks me about LGTB rights, I ask when they were constitutionally taken away. Gays have the same rights hetero’s do. When we start holding our Republican representatives’ feet to the fire, and tell them that the religous wacko’s do NOT own the party, then some headway will be made. Fiscally conservative, pro military, God loving and constitution loving, that should be the Republican motto. There are a LOT of female and LGTB Republicans, whether they, or the Republicans admit it. Move upward, RNC, not backward or sideways.
February 19th, 2011 at 9:00 pm (#)
Love this.. It is a perfect description of my thoughts and feelings..
December 2nd, 2011 at 2:09 pm (#)
The problem is not that the republ;ican party is too far to the right but too willing to compromise with the left drawing it too far to the left.