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[mpholland]

I have considered myself conservative for most of my life, and went from Republican to independent right after GHWB. Lately I am having conflicting thoughts on the terminology and reasoning behind it. I would like to see the government be smaller and more fiscally sound, but I can't see that it is ever going to happen. Republicans aren't conservative, they just want smaller government so it stays out of their way and less taxes so they can keep more of their wealth. That is the crux of Republican conservatism. The irony is that they are the ones forcing the government to get bigger. If greedy corporations would do the right thing and pay a living wage and a pension, or enough to actually let the employee contribute a generous amount to his own retirement plan, social security could be smaller. If medical wasn't so obscenely expensive, pharm so greedily overpriced, and insurance and hospitals so heavily laden with administration, insurance costs would probably fairly reasonable. If the corporations didn't have to spend so much lobbying the government, the government wouldn't have to spend all their resources dealing with corporations and could focus on running America. I guess I just see corporate America standing in the way of conservatism.