| Sansui said: One thing neither party does very well is justify and explain spending. To me, Republicans tend to marginalize any spending other than defense spending. Yet tax and spend anyway (hello Mr. Bush 1 and 2). Democrats slip in small programs because they get shut down by the Republicans on anything big, and then get demonized for this. And yet many of these programs are not about increasing the size of our government (sometimes that is a side effect yes), but about improving our infrastructure. Ensuring our work force is healthy and happy and can actually get to work (roads and public transportation). Encuring our upcoming work force, our children, are educated and have the means to take advantage of the opportunities before them. A republican would look at a young girl, and then slash any spending on access to birth control for her. When she becomes a young unwed mother, they slash spending on programs that would give her any kind of support to raise her child and support that child's health. When that child is in a public school system, they slash spending on a program that would give that child the tools it needs in today's age to succeed. When that child is a high school dropout, a young girl herself, she repeats the same mistakes her mother made. The way I see it? A lot of democratic spending is to provide solutions for problems created by Republicans. Now, I know I'm overemphasizing that and myself marginalizing a lot of business practices that I think the Dems are wrong on, but I think it's a fair point. Not all government spending is bad. It's just like a business investing during a downturn instead of cutting expenses - when things look up again, they're in a much better position to take advantage of the market than the companies that wildly cut spending and jobs just to please their shareholders.
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Please stop using your own personal stereotypes to make generalizations about other people.
There are a lot of conservative minded people reject all government spending which doesn't have measureable results ... For the most part, no social programs have been designed in a way where you can actually measure the results of the spending.
