What are the differences between Republicans and Democrats?

[FreedomFighter]

I am a libertarian.


Republicans are interested in sticking to the values and standards of the Founding Fathers. They recognize that more Federal goverment control leads to greater inefficiency, higher costs, and the loss of individual freedom. They believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Democrats support big government. They think its better to have centralized control, even though history demonstrates again and again that more goverment control is not good for the individual citizen. They want to be taken care of and believe that poor people will be helped most from receiving government handouts. Unfortunately, it is systems like welfare and health care reform that are leading to the decline of quality of life for all Americans. Rather than bringing the poor up, it just brings everybody down.