>>Fiscally, we're running record deficts. I understand the argument that "we're at war". War, however, is a time a shared scarifice. Yet we've got a tax cut during this time. This is the first time in the history of this country (and maybe the first time in the history of civilization) that a tax cut has been implemented in time of war.
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>Yes I hate the huge deficit we have now..... but I think it will get better soon.

Dean,

I hope so too. However, this nonsense about the "Social Security Crisis" and privatizing it to fix it, will only add to it. Guess what? There's no "crisis". Social Security is solvent through 2038 at 1.6% growth (worst case scenario) according to the Congressional Budget Office. Of course, at that rate, the stock market will tank, along with people's retirement accounts.

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>>Next we get to social issues. The government wants an admendment to the consitution say that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. While I'm most decidedly hetrosexual, what business is it of the government's to decided that the sexually of two adults should be a determining factor on their civil rights and priveledges?
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>I really don't care either way on this. Except to say that if/when it is "legal" for homsexuals to be married, it won't open a pandora box for other types of relationships.

I don't think that there's any "Pandora's Box" to be worried about
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>>In terms of the size of government, do people realize that under this administration we've seen the largest expansion of government since the 1960's?
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>I think most of the expansion is due to the creation of the "Home Land Security" agency, which the 911 commission and most of the democrats endorse.

As a matter of fact, a Democrat, Max Cleland from Georgia (who lost two legs and an arm in Viet Nam) was the designer. Of course, when he refused to vote for the bill (because of some of the unnecessary expeditures attached to it), when he came up for re-election, he was linked to Osama bin Laden in ads.

9/11, however, might never have happened if the current adminstration had heeded the warnings of the previous.
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>>Finally, in terms of the environment, this administration isn't doing anything to "conserve" it.
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>What would like to see happen on this area? What have the Bush administration done to harm it?

Try the weakening of the "Clean Air and Water Act".

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>>So would someone tell me why I'm a "liberal"?
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>I think you're a liberal-conservative, a la Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What should I say here? "I'll be back"? or "Talk to the hand"?:-)