+- Twitist Forums (http://twitist.com)
+-- Forum: General Social Media & Marketing Forums (/forum-8.html)
+--- Forum: Social Marketing (/forum-10.html)
+--- Thread: Is socially liberal and fiscally conservative the best idea for America? (/thread-43823.html)
Pages: 1 2
Is socially liberal and fiscally conservative the best idea for America? - Gurt - 11-19-2012 02:35 AM
If not then explain why. If yes explain why. Thanks!
Also what do it mean to be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative?
That's their own choice if they refuse to work. Nobody made them not work. I say people out of work get forced to work.
- Schiffy! - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
That's exactly what I think. PS "Lies about me", one of our policies would be reducing our military influence around the world. So there would be TONS less military spending.
- quietcannon379 - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
That's what young people say because it makes them think they're "picking and choosing" the best parts of both parties and being independent. If you're still voting to cut taxes on the rich and refuse to cut military, then you're still an idiot.
- Happytramp704 - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
It's what most people are, but many people are so partisan that they feel compelled to defend their guy no matter what he or she does.
- Let There Be Love - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
No.
Fiscal conservatism doesn't work... in a crisis wherein we fall into a liquidity trap, you have virtually interest-free money to borrow and you know for sure that it will offset aggregate demand, increase output without the interest rates to go higher, all the while being certain it's your last resort option since monetary policy will do nothing -- this last one explains why, despite yelling like morons, right wing nuts can't seem to get the Fed is not in a position to increase the price levels.
Austerity produces a contraction, that you like the idea or not. On the short term, especially when the loan is very affordable, you have all the interests on Earth to take that damn money and spend it. On the long term, you need to think about cuts to reduce your debt, but it shouldn't be a problem for a government like the US government who could very well double it without being in trouble.
- Educated Liberal - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
Probably - but how would the "people that refuse to work" get by in life?
- Bat Guano - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
Doesn't that mean "get everything you want, but then refuse to pay for it?"
THAT'S HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS
- Greg W - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
As soon as "fiscally conservative" does not include $680 BILLION in so-called "defense" spending.... yes... absolutely.
- fightforlove - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
That's called being a rockefeller republican (or libertarian if you take it to the extreme). It's exactly the reason we have all this economic debt and social denigration. You combine laissez-faire capitalism with social liberalism, you get the result: a generation of lazy spoiled brats, ugly, ill-mannered fat girls and boys who don't know how to become men. Makes me wish Germany and Japan had won WW2 and then we'd be living in the opposite: a fiscally liberal/protectionist, socially conservative society of hot-rod mercedes-benzes and cute japanese girls who know how to cook.
- crash.override - 11-19-2012 02:43 AM
Not if "socially liberal" means that we just continue with business as usual with government spending especially on entitlements. These are the single biggest drivers of our national debt, but liberals cry that any "reform" really means that we are trying to get rid of those programs altogether.