Anyway, I think government is too big and must be scaled back. Anyone who opposes big government will at some point experience a "gut check" when trimming it back hits you or your "constituency group":
The flow of mail — including prescription drugs sent through the Tricare Mail-Order Pharmacy program — is about to slam to a halt for about 4,800 military retirees and their survivors living overseas who use APO and FPO addresses at U.S. embassies and consulates.I may end up living overseas in my retirement, so I'm sympathetic with my fellow veterans who face having their access to the US Mail cut off. But on the other hand, why should taxpayers be subsidizing a global mail system for a few thousand military retirees?
As part of the initiative to separate State Department and military mail, State has said it cannot be responsible for the costs of mail going to military retirees at embassies and consulates. (Source: Marine Corps Times)
Late breaking update: A Vietnam vet who owns a mail service in Panama has already stepped up and offered any vet the first 16 oz per month for free for anyone who signs up. See? Military veterans, being self-sufficient, don't cry when Uncle Sam cuts them off, they move on and fill the gap!
"Starve Old People"
Then there is the automatic mechanism that determined that Social Security beneficiaries get no cost of living increase next year because the consumer price index hasn't budged, and besides, per 2008 CPI calculations, the raise last year was higher than it should have been.
I'm many years away from collecting social security, and count me among those who think flying saucers landing here is more probable than me collecting a check. But my grannies collect social security, and it ain't a lot.
"Go Weak On Defense"
And finally, defense. How much is enough? Invading other countries is very un-conservative and definitely un-libertarian. So is using taxpayer funds to build missile shields for other countries. Defense spending cannot increase indefinitely.
Want smaller government? What are you willing to cut? This is why the GOP has a rough row to hoe...
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I call myself an independent conservative. A Constitutionalist and pro- liberty. I believe Republicans with a libertarian slant are "pro-liberty Republicans." REpublicans who love earmarks, growing government etc. are Anti-liberty Republicans.
Here is a test to see where you stand in the political spectrum. I hink you will find it eye opening.
http://www.nolanchart.com/survey.php
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