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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:40 PM Original message |
Just what is a "fiscal conservative?" |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. What is a fiscal conservative? |
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Sammy Pepys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, for one... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Well, it's become a popular thing to say. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I think you have your wires crossed -- "fiscally conservative" is opposite |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:03 PM Original message |
"fiscally conservative" is exactly what Bush is. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
18. Bush may say he is a 'fiscal conservative', but he isn't -- |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. I don't know, but mostly they say they are socially moderate or |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. "what I really want to do is tax the poor and middle class and give their |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. In Canada it just means that you don't live beyond your means. That |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. many liberals are 'fiscal conservatives" - it means "pay as you go" |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. You mean conservative as in "forest conservation" |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I don't think anybody calls Bush a "fiscal conservative" |
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enid602 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. conservatives |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. Nowadays, I think that 'fiscal conservative' is an oxymoron. |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. I think that you have summed it up well. |
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joemurphy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. a mythical beast, much like the unicorn |
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Minnesota_Lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. These days it means borrow and spend like there is no tomorrow |
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Dave Reynolds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. I consider myself a fiscal conservative. |
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Justitia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. Progressives are fiscal conservatives to ENSURE the survival of social |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. a fiscal conservative.. |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. A fiscal conservative is typically tight-fisted with govt. "largesse." |
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KingM34 (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'm fiscally conservative |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-06-06 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
22. since it has been appropriated by the Repuglicans |
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