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Obama's Fiscal Conservatism

By The Daily Dish
Jan 5 2008, 2:49 AM ET

A reader writes:

In Reference to this question:

What specific changes in law, society, or polity, if any, that Obama supports do you also support?

Spending and borrow is also something that you have brought up in the past. Obama is the man who created this web site, with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, so we the people can know where our tax money is going. Its not perfect but its a step towards transparency that no one else in the race has even begun to match.

I hate the government, as a good Ron Paul supporting classical liberal should, but if we must have one I at least want to keep a close eye on it, and this helps me do just that.

PS: Obama worked with Tom Coburn, far from an ideological equal, and pushed it over the 'secret hold' placed by Stevens and Byrd.



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