tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22913587.post8123183649933634181..comments2023-10-29T03:29:27.319-05:00Comments on North<br>Texas<br>Liberal: vote in the texas eprimary!Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00021020679332430458noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22913587.post-30703429459759543312007-11-07T07:36:00.000-06:002007-11-07T07:36:00.000-06:00DO YOU AGREE ??1. Taxes and Federal Budget: "Cutti...DO YOU AGREE ??<BR/><BR/>1. Taxes and Federal Budget: "Cutting tax rates in order to stimulate steady economic growth. This policy was not invented by neocons, and it was not the particularities of tax cuts that interested them, but rather the steady focus on economic growth." In Kristol's view, neocons are and should be less concerned about balancing fiscal budgets than traditional conservatives: "One sometimes must shoulder budgetary deficits as the cost (temporary, one hopes) of pursuing economic growth."[10]<BR/><BR/>2. Size of Government: Kristol distinguishes between Neoconservatives and the call of traditional conservatives for smaller government. "Neocons do not feel ... alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable."[10]<BR/><BR/>3. Traditional Moral Values: "The steady decline in our democratic culture, sinking to new levels of vulgarity, does unite neocons with traditional conservatives". Here Kristol distinguishes between traditional conservatives and libertarian conservatives. He cites the shared interest of Neocons and Religious Conservates in using the government to enforce morality: "Since the Republican party now has a substantial base among the religious, this gives neocons a certain influence and even power."[10]<BR/><BR/>4. Expansionist Foreign Policy: "Statesmen should ... distinguish friends from enemies." And according to Kristol, "with power come responsibilities ... if you have the kind of power we now have, either you will find opportunities to use it, or the world will discover them for you."[10]<BR/><BR/>5. National Interest: "the United States of today, inevitably ... [will] feel obliged to defend ... a democratic nation under attack from nondemocratic forces ...that is why it was in our national interest to come to the defense of France and Britain in World War II ... that is why we feel it necessary to defend Israel today."[<BR/><BR/><BR/>You might just be a neocon, which is not a bad word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com