I walk the Line

Yeah, so as a self-proclaimed middle of the roader, and Libertarian, i thought it would be interesting to take some of the political quizzes available on the internet. The facebook application has a needle like a gas gauge from Liberal to Conservative and Moderate in the middle. My tank is a little more than half full (barely over on the conservative side). i tried taking another one at this site and got this result (picture left), which also may be inaccurate. On the plus side, out of Stalin, Hitler, Thatcher, Friedman, and Ghandi, i am by far, closer to Ghandi. Yay? i'm wondering where i can find a decent political compass tool without the seriously loaded questions and obvious personal political agenda of the person creating it. Any thoughts? In the mean time, i'm going to try to compile a list of what the government should and should not have their fingers in. After all, the founding fathers were the leaders of a people who were under-represented, overtaxed, and worried about protecting their local authority from a government thousands of miles away and unfamiliar with their local needs (sound familiar?). The Constitution and Bill of Rights are about protecting freedoms FROM the government, restraint, rather than allowing the government as much power as possible. The following is not comprehensive, but simply highlights the most pressing needs.

FEDERAL Government should be allowed [limited] access in the following areas:
Interstate road systems
A standing Army (and navy, marines, air force, etc)
Mail Delivery
Environmental Protection and Parks

STATE/Local Government should be allowed [limited] access in the following areas:
Police and Law Enforcement (Including Criminal and Civil Courts)
Primary and Secondary Education
Gun Laws
Marriage Laws

Stringent Limits placed on:
Domestic Surveillance (There must be oversight)
Hiring and Firing Practices (The Constitution already provides for the protection of all persons of any Gender, Race, or Creed to be given equal opportunity, but does not grant equal access, much less over representation. Gender, race, and creed should not be allowed consideration for hiring, firing, or acceptance into any school or program and should not be valid application questions under this statute. Organizations should be held to this in all ways and any preference given to any person for these reasons should be prosecuted as unlawful and unconstitutional)
Classified information (Such information must be overseen and labeled for declassification within a reasonable time, 20 years at the longest)

No level of Government should be allowed to regulate or fund:
Charitable Organizations
Campaign Finances

At all levels, additional tax levies should be brought to referendum for a direct vote. "Temporary taxes" must have time tables attached for when they will be no longer legal.

Andrew Shepherd, the Democratic president in The American President, said it best, "America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad."
He goes on to say, "it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say 'You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.'"

So decide if this country really matters to you at all and if the freedom you enjoy is bought by your daily citizenship, some one else's citizenship with a viewpoint you oppose, a soldier fighting in a country that you oppose him being in, but didn't vote in the last election? If you read this far, you must care about this country. Go do something about it.