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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (551479)	2/22/2010 9:24:30 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1573213

Well, I consider myself centrist or Independent, because I no longer will vote for a party unless they have good ideas, and I'll vote for either party. What I do is I pick and choose policy positions from all parties. Below are most of the things I believe in and I've put the party that is typically associated with the position in parenthesis. You can see why I don't neatly fit into either party category. * Pro-life; abortion is murder (GOP) * Privatize social security (GOP) * Protection for a church's right not to allow gay marriages in their church (GOP) * Pro-nuclear power (GOP) * Drill, baby, drill everywhere (GOP) * Small government; I believe in that private industry is better at almost everything than the gov't (GOP) * Cut taxes to small businesses (GOP) * Pro-guns in general and for gun rights protection (GOP) * Against stimulus dollars spent on welfare and tax rebates to individuals (GOP) * Strongly against lending money to GM and financial firms to bail them out (GOP) * Strongly against the myth of "Too Big to Fail"; I say let bankruptcy take care of those walking dead giants (GOP) * Cut spending (neither party believes in this) * Do not believe in nation building other countries (neither party believes as I do) * I believe we need to let other countries defend themselves and withdraw most of our troops from abroad (neither party believes as I do) * I believe in Immigration reform as Bush Jr envisioned it, but his own party rebelled against that and the Dems didn't like it either (neither party) * For stimulus dollars spent on renewable energy investments, and science and tech R&D (Dem) * Against machine guns and for very strong restriction on who can carry a gun (Dems) * Raise taxes back to the 1990s levels to balance the budget(Dems) * Substantial reform of health care (Dems) * For the repeal of all exemptions from anti-trust laws in Health Industry (Dem) * Renewable energy big push (Dems) * Put a price on carbon and/or tax gas (Dems) * Cut military spending (Dems) * Close Guantanamo (Dems) * Get us out of Iraq (Dems) * Give gays federal recognition of civil unions, valid across all states (Dems) * Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell and give gays protected minority status (Dems) * I believe in a re-instatement of the Glass Steagal act and other financial industry regulatory reforms; in short I believe banking should be boring and should not act as a leach on our economy, nor cause catastrophic economic collapses as it just did (Dem) * I believe in the PayGo rules (Dem)