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To: neolib who wrote (220394)	2/22/2005 10:21:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1588367

wrt long & deep. It is rather relative. Castro was a revolutionary in his youth. He is not one now. In one lifetime that change can occur. I don't see your example as being relevant to my point. It is relevant to the distinction between "fixed in your ways", and political ideology, but I think we mostly agreed on that one. There are a handful of American religions, founded in the 1800s. Revolutionary in their beginnings, most are now totally obsessed with defending the status quo. The best laid plans of mice and men... Do you think they have a long and deep connection with American culture. Christianity in general probably does. But I don't know about these unnamed religions. The problem is that fiscal conservatism used to be linked to political conservatives, while tax and spend was considered the liberal way. One more way that the word "conservative" (like "liberal" BTW) is fuzzy. You can be a fiscal conservative, without being a conservative in just about any other way, esp. if like John Fowler you define fiscal conservative as believing in low deficits or zero deficits and don't include low spending or controlled spending as part of you definition except as it is necessary to control deficits. I think we would be better off with 10% less spending by the government and a deficit that is 2% greater than we are in our current situation, but not everyone agrees. But then 10% lower spending just isn't going to happen in today's political situation. Tim