Political Quiz

[Hunter94]

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Here are mine:

Conservative/Progressive score: 5

You are a social moderate. You think the progressive movement is overall well meaning, but sometimes it goes too far. On issues like abortion and affirmative action, you see the negatives of both extremes on the issue. You probably value religion, but at the same time you think it should still stay separate from the government

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 7

You are a Moderate Capitalist. You support an economy that is by and large a free market, but has public programs to help people who can't help themselves or need a little help. Pretty much you believe in the American economy how it currently is.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 6

You're a Moderate. You think that we all have certain inalienable rights that must be protected, but that sometimes laws need to be made to protect the majority's lives or quality of lives. You might think that the 2nd amendment isn't necessary anymore because letting everyone a gun is extremely dangerous to the community. You might also be against illegal drug use or public pornography because of its possible harmful effects to society. <--- The bold text is wrong. =)

Pacifist/Militarist score: 4

You're a Moderate. You think that in very rare occasions, the United States should invade a country in order to make the world better by spreading democracy or ending a tyrants rule. You also think that defense is very important, and we shouldn't lower the defense budget. You think that, while the Iraq War probably was a mistake, that we can make the world a better place by sticking with it and spreading democracy in the middle east.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Moderate

[Madslash]

Conservative/Progressive score: 7

You are a social moderate. You think the progressive movement is overall well meaning, but sometimes it goes too far. On issues like abortion and affirmative action, you see the negatives of both extremes on the issue. You probably value religion, but at the same time you think it should still stay separate from the government

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 9

You're a Social Capitalist, you think that, left to its own, Capitalism leaves a lot of people behind. You think that Health Care should be free to all, that the minimum wage should be raised, and that the government should provide jobs to all that are capable of having them. You likely hated the Bush tax cuts, and believe that the middle class has gotten poorer, and the rich have gotten richer over the past several years. The far extreme of social capitalism is socialism.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 9

You're an Authoritarian. You believe that that, left to their own, many people will do immoral or harmful things. You despise drug users, pornography, violence, and all other things that you consider immoral. You also think that security is often more important than protecting rights. You think children need to be protected from seeing these things so it doesn't warp their minds, and that the will of the majority sometimes is more important than the rights of the minority.

Pacifist/Militarist score: 4

You're a Moderate. You think that in very rare occasions, the United States should invade a country in order to make the world better by spreading democracy or ending a tyrants rule. You also think that defense is very important, and we shouldn't lower the defense budget. You think that, while the Iraq War probably was a mistake, that we can make the world a better place by sticking with it and spreading democracy in the middle east.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Democrat

Sounds mostly right to me.  :nice:

[Joseph]

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 7

You are a Moderate Capitalist. You support an economy that is by and large a free market, but has public programs to help people who can't help themselves or need a little help. Pretty much you believe in the American economy how it currently is.

The current American Social Asistance programs are inadequate. The statement contradicts itself in the sense that you believe in social programs to help people yet the current American society has very few social programs to help people or rather it is better expressed to be existing social programs do not sufficiently help enough of the population  relative to the need, amount of programs and population. Additionally legislation (Ie melinium copyright Act) or the patriot act infringe upon the rights of the countries citezens which is counter productive and can be regared as "negative" social programs.

Additionally, the United States may be regarded as the definition of capitalism (not technically, but policy wise). The United States (US) has free trade agreements or reciprocral trade agreements with several countries which prevent tariffs. The purpose of the policies is for American corporations to set up shop, or rather create factories and out source labour or sell products in less regulated or even deregulated markets in order to create more profits for it's share holders, contrary to the greater economic good of the country, I'll explain this later. In almost every developed country American corporations (IE Coke, Pepsi, Exxon Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Macdonalds, Walmart...) engage is reciprocral trade behaviors that encourage profits domestically (in the US); however the US will place quotas and restrictions on countries who threaten competition domestically with superior products (IE foreign vehicles) or tariffs (Canadian lumber for example, yet the tariffs vary due to various situations, but for simplicity World Courts ordered the US to pay back over 100m in tariffs charged therefore they tariff although this is debatable its not the point)

Now, whats so bad abou having your own corporations going abroad to bring back goods and services home to you for less? Well, it appears good, but what will eventually happen is because so many goods are not produced domestically the country can't support it's own population by self sufficiency and it's GDP or ecnomic growth is hindered. An example of this could be the service sector, the Good A industry (the type of good is arbitrary, all that matters is it is produced abroad). In this industry the product is sold in the United States, Americans consume the product so they therefore import is as it is not produced domestically. As a result of this the Marginal Mropensity to iMport(MPM) increases  which means that GDP will fall (recall, GDP can be summed up as Domestic Consumption + Net-Exports (Exports - Imports) + Government Spending + Investment). Because MPM increases and because more goods are being imported fewer goods and services will be produced domestically which will reduce consumption, exports and investment (people import, therefore money is not spent locally, people invest abroad therefore less money is invested domestically.)

As a result of this, GDP is lower than what it can be, but one may argue well the Average Total Cost (ATC) is lower and consumer/ producer surpluses are greater so what is wrong? Well, suppose that rampant unemployment  hits (alot like now) people will continue to import which will devalue the currency (in a nut shell, If your Imports > Exports then your currency will fall due to the amount of your currency supplied relative to demand). Since the currency devalues your GDP will devalue relative to that of other countries which means that your country effectively becomes more poor.

In the short run (the time before the long run) the country will do well, but in the long run  economically the country will suffer due to a lack of goods being produced domestically and over consumption of foreign goods reducing GDP. The current American economy in my opinion is at this state presently and is completely contradictory to what your statement implies. From what I've said, the American Economy isn't truly free but more or so Neo-Conservative if you will. The majority of the consumer surpluses do not go the lower 90% of the population income wise, but rather to the top 10% which defeats the purpose of free trade. So you agree with thatÉ