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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	architect's core beliefs
	Date:	3/27/2009 7:52:52 PM

OK then, that is an interesting set of core beliefs and I'm OK with the Jimmy Carter vote rationale, especially given the times. As for your other beliefs I am surprised that the one issue about McCain overruled all the other core beliefs. I am of the opinion that Obama is at odds with almost every one of your beliefs except maybe the religion one.

I do have a question for you about number 2. When government uses "public sector money" to take up the slack where exactly does that money in the public sector come from? Since government creates nothing I think you would agree that the money is either taken out of the private sector in the form of taxes or is printed (ie, government debt that increases the deficit or worse yet they simply print it causing hyper-inflation). It seems to me at least with the current economic crisis that government was the problem (CRA/Fannie/Freddie) in distorting the markets and is not the solution (and I am completely and intentionally ignoring which party was at fault).

As for religion simply guiding your personal life would it also be fair to say that the government should not dictate religious beliefs or force a religious person to go against their beliefs? Or is it a one sided equation?

I think most of us would agree with your guiding principal about the use of military force. I know I do. But you act as if your opinion about the threat posed by Iraq was evident to all back when the war started. Recognizing you don't believe this to be the case, and in fact it may not be, isn't it still conceivable that the administration after having looked at all the intelligence believed that Iraq posed a threat? Isn't it conceivable that the administration relied on the very same intelligence that so many Democrats in Congress relied upon when they supported the administration before the politics changed and they no longer supported it? I know you don't believe this is true but isn't it at least conceivable?