More or less neoconservative to libertarian/minarchist.
Once I began doing a lot more work as a business analyst, excel spreadsheets became my friend. It became real easy to start looking up and analyzing data. I've probably looked at thousands of various charts and spreadsheets that get referenced on various political-leaning data points.
Between that, and listening to every lecture Milton Friedman gave, it became pretty apparent to me which way my political views should change. That is, a liberalization of social views to the notion that a free market of morality is preferable to social authoritarianism, since bad behaviors under a libertarian society and government will get weeded out faster than subjugation and negative habits becoming taboo.
Economically, I've always been free market, but I've learned to define it better. I know why I don't like most specific government programs in the US, and can usually haul off a list of a few bullet points. On a personal level, I've come to realize that the government is abysmal with how it handles money, and any money I pay in is likely to be used vastly less efficiently than I can use it for most government services (pensions, health care, welfare, ect).
I think that covers it. Debate has a way of sharpening your views, so between here and other forums I frequent, I've learned a lot from the times I'm wrong, and done what I can to research issues and come to some sort of conclusion based on data. Time and time again, most comparisons I look at leave our federal government lacking severely, yet wanting more. Every answer the government gives for a problem is "More money" or "More power" when it rarely gives positive results for what is paid in.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
