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Thread #113372   Message #2410323
Posted By: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
11-Aug-08 - 04:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Liberal/Conservative Definition
Subject: RE: BS: Liberal/Conservative Definition
A Fiscal Liberal in the mold of FDR. Uses deficit spending to stimulate the economy in bad time in the hope that it will turn around.

A Fiscal Conservative like Herbert Hoover will decrease spending in hard times thus making hard times worse.

As far as I can see, there have been no Fiscal conservatives since Hoover.

Though Clinton at least produced a surplus, which the Republican Congress immediately tried to spend on earmarks, programs and tax cuts. Had Bush tried to cut the debt, he might have been able to call himself conservative.