Micro: "DId you vote for Obammy the felon?
I think you may have from my reading of your posts and leanings on some issues."
Nope. I would never have done that. I favor minimal government in all areas except, to some extent, (a) "infrastructure", (b) military, and (c) very basic health care.
(a) Infrastructure: You can't build a transcontinental transportation, communication, nor banking system except with overarching planning and standards enforcement. Similarly, you can't have strictly local enforcement of federal crimes such as murder and fraud.
(b) Military: I favor a system similar to what Switzerland has, of mandatory 1 year military service time for those who wish to have the power to vote and have full citizenship. Citizens are required to keep their guns and keep up to minimal standards of practice, so maybe a month of additional training every five years or so. Other than that, there should be no standing army and, obviously, no foreign military bases.
(c) Health Care: We already have "socialized medicine", it just happens to be hopelessly expensive and corrupt. Indeed, if you think about it, the "price fixing" and other shenanigans which underlie our system qualify as racketeering under RICO and other laws. They law just isn't enforced.
That said, any first tier country can't leave mentally ill, and other unable-to-take-care-of-themselves people, sleeping and dying on the sidewalk. That spreads disease and pulls down society as a whole. If a person is in that situation they are, by definition, incompetent to take care of themselves. People who are incompetent to take care of themselves shouldn't be allowed full-citizenship rights (e.g., ability to vote, have children, or carry a weapon) until they are able to take care of themselves again. Which may be never or it may be a few months later. There needs to be a minimal safety net -- it just needs to be non-optional and set at a much more basic level.
All that said, by the time Obama was running in 2008 he was running against McInsane. I wouldn't have voted for Obama, but I CERTAINLY preferred he win versus "McInsane". McInsane should have been FORCED to go to the front line in Iraq or Afghan and not allowed to come back until he had taken a bullet. (He had already crashed, I believe, THREE planes and really needed to do time in infantry, up close and personal. He was no "war hero" in any real sense.)
As you can see, I may not call myself a "Conservative" but I am likely the most honestly conservative person on this board. I believe in conserving good things and recycling bad things.
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