Ok, fine then I'll give you a response but this is getting overly political.

Education is not supposed to be federally funded according to the constitution. It is a state issue.

Defense IS a federal function and my tax dollars should go toward it.

The point of having a document that spells out what the federal government can and can't do (and by the way, if it's not as up to date as you like, they have conveniently built in an amendment process so you can change it instead of ignoring it) is so that the representatives have some legal basis to make their funding decisions on. Just because a rep here or there likes a specific issue should not mean it gets funding from federal tax dollars. They have to prove it's ok under the constitution. As for each of the other issues you mentioned, I can argue them but this is not the forum.

Finally, if people are so fickle in their principles that they choose to ignore them because it's currently benefiting them at the expense of everybody as a whole, we are screwed and that's exactly why we are where we are right now. I choose to support ending EAS not because I dislike the industry I work in but because I don't change my principles simply because doing the wrong thing is benefiting me at the time.

I have a sound reason for the things I support so I don't appreciate being attacked. Political discussions tend to end up this way though.

Now, we can all prepare for this thread to be locked...