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Are You Left, Right, or Center?
Shape D.:
Economic Left/Right: -2.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21
mr.Curmudgeon:
ROFL. All these Chad clones are cracking me up.
--- Quote ---"More right issues than left, but on the surface some of my views could be viewed as leftism."
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You're as righty as I've seen on this board...What views do you have that could be viewed as left-leaning? Seriously, I think you're pulling my leg...
mrC
Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79
**This puts my almost *exactly* on the opposite end of the spectrum from Boy-King Bush. No wonder I hate him so much.
Grasshopper:
There's an interesting quiz on that site. Guess who said this:
To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.
I'll give you a clue. His surname is Bush.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 03, 2005, 04:04:05 pm ---You're as righty as I've seen on this board...What views do you have that could be viewed as left-leaning? Seriously, I think you're pulling my leg...
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There are a lot of things I'd like to see done. I'd like to see better programs for helping single moms on welfare receive training and education so they can become self sufficient enough to support their kids. I'd like to see more training programs in general for things like adults who are computer illiterate. I'd like to see better shelters for abused women and children as well as a vastly improved DYS system so less neglected children fall through the cracks. I'd like to see better subsidization of health care for children who don't have insurance.
Basically, I'd like to see better programs to help those who NEED it. No able bodied adults without children should ever be on welfare. The right leaning part of my approach is that I don't consider open ended financial assistance helpful. I've seen the welfare system firsthand and it actually punishes those who try to elevate themselves once they're in. It's designed in such a way that it traps families so they can't get out. These people need to be taught ways to support themselves, not supported by the gov't. Sure, they may need some financial support in the short term, but if they are willing to do whatever it takes to learn the skills they need to be self sufficient, I have no problem with that.
I have a good amount of ideas on how to overhaul the system, but the problems with my approach is that while they would be for the common good, they likely would not be electable ideas.
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 03, 2005, 12:52:44 am ---I'm curious as to what issues you've taken a left-leaning stance on? To me you come off as a conservative in moderate clothing.
I get the sense your claiming "center" so you can appear to be unbiased, but in my discussions w/ you, you've taken a right-wing stance a vast majority of the time. That would put you on the right end of the spectrum.
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--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 03, 2005, 04:04:05 pm ---mrC
Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79
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Now I know Why you think I'm a Righty.