Seriously? you think you're a centrist?
I would seriously like to see a much more fiscally conservative government, but I am pretty far to the "left" of the majority when it comes to peace and social justice issues, so I realize that exempts me from the "centrist" label. I wouldn't put you in that category either - and I'm not so sure about Otter - reaper, perhaps.
That's one of the problem with labels - they don't mean the same thing to everyone.
I too want to see a more fiscally responsibe Govt but unlike others I also get that the Govt does have a responsibility ain protecting the nation. It does have a reesponsibility in taking care of the people when they run into a bit of bad luck.
ya know when I hear these people talk I go. You cant want war without paying for the bullets.
This free market solves everything mentality is assinine. Just to show you how some of the free market people think. Some of them feel the Civil war was un-necessary because eventually the free market would have lead to the end of slavery. That may or may not be true I dont know. But my question is when? When would it have ended? My answers is simple every day we had slavery was a day too long. So it didnt matter of the free market would have ended it.
Free market doesnt solve all the problems nor will the Gov.
"I want to shrink the size of Govt so I can drown it in the bath water"-Grover Norquist...Well he got his wish in New Orleans 2005