The Wikipedia version is interesting. You will note that the primary basis for neoliberalism is "free markets", That is markets unfettered by government interference. Unfortunately free markets do not exist as such. What we have are multi-national oligopolies and monopolies that use government for their own purposes--corporate welfare. They then pull out the free market BS whenever a country tries to do something good for its people--social welfare.
The Democrats and Repugs are in this together:
In the American context, for example, economist Brad DeLong is a prominent defender of neoliberalism, although he is a Keynesian, supporter of income redistribution, and fierce critic of the Bush Administration. In US usage, neoliberalism ("new liberalism") is commonly associated with the Third Way, aka social-democracy under the New Public Management movement. Supporters of the US version of neoliberalism present it as a pragmatic position, focusing on "what works" and transcending debates between left and right, despite new liberalism's similitude to classical center-of-left economic policies (such as has been traditional to 20th century Canada). The overlapping of these usages can create considerable confusion. In international usage, President Ronald Reagan and the United States Republican Party are seen as leading proponents of neoliberalism. But Reagan was never described in this way in domestic US political discussion, where the term is most commonly applied to moderate Democrats like the Democratic Leadership Council.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberal 
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