Who are the fiscal conservatives? Republicans or Democrats?
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Liberals have consistently increased spending less than conservatives over the past fifty years.\n\nAdditionally, over 90% of the national debt has been created by conservative presidents pursuing conservative policies.\n\nThe last balanced budget we had was Bill Clinton.  Before that, I believe it was Carter.\n\nTherefore, it seems clear that the term "fiscal conservative" is actually an oxymoron.  \n\nThe facts are clear:  the true representatives of Fiscal Responsibility are the liberals.
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well there is not much differance/ Dems are for welfare for the poor and starving and the middleclass working man. Repulicans are for welfare for the RIch and not paying taxes even if they have to put all the dept on to there childrens back. \nIt used to be republicans were for fiscal responsibility they just want to elimate the bill of rights establish a state relgion and bring back slavery. I say this because that is what they say they want to do listen to them.
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I'll do my best.  Republicans favor a small, inexpensive government and, therefore, lower taxes, as well as a strong military.\n\nDemocrats favor a large government that will collect higher taxes and dole out governmental support, and they prefer a small military.\n\nIn a nutshell, that's it.
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Democrats are liberals and they like gay marriages and abortion.\nRepublicans are conservatives but they like war just like the invasion of Iraq.
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Democrats.  As the one writer notes, they do want to give money to the poor.  However, they are also far more likely to fund the things that give middle-class folks a chance to move up the ladder:  education, roads, security nets for the unemployed, environmental protections, etc.  The Republicans have spent their last few years in power tearing down the economic infrastructure of the nation in order to fund tax-cuts for the ultra-rich; eventually that will cost us a lot more money than actually paying taxes to maintain what it's government's job to maintain.
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conservatives are made of the ignorant and the greedy. they have tricked poor people into paying for their wars and tax breaks.
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REPUBLICAN-The Republican Party is the more socially conservative and economically libertarian of the two major parties, and has closer ties to both Wall Street (large corporations) and Main Street (locally owned businesses) than do the Democrats and less affiliation with labor unions. Republicans have a strong belief in personal responsibility, limited government, and corporate entrepreneurship. Republicans generally oppose gay marriage, oppose abortion, and oppose embryonic stem cell research.   center-right wing\n\nDEMOCRAT-The party has favored farmers, laborers, labor unions, and religious and ethnic minorities; it has opposed unregulated business and finance, and favored progressive income taxes. In foreign policy, internationalism (including interventionism) was a dominant theme from 1913 to the mid 1960s. In the 1930s, the party began advocating welfare spending programs targeted at the poor. Since the 1970s, environmentalism has been a major new component.\nIn recent decades, the Party advocates civil liberties, social freedoms, equal rights, equal opportunity, and a free enterprise system tempered by government intervention (what economists call a mixed-economy). The Party believes that government should play a role in alleviating poverty and social injustice, even if that means a larger role for government and progressive taxation to pay for social services. They support gay marriage, abortion, and stem call research.\n\nLEFT-WING-In politics, left-wing, the political left or simply the left are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of, to varying extents, socialism, green politics, anarchism, communism, social democracy, progressivism, American liberalism or social liberalism, and defined in contradistinction to its polar opposite, the right. The left often works to eliminate high levels of inequality.\n\nRIGHT-WING-In politics, right-wing, the political right or simply the right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of monarchism, reactionism, conservatism, the religious right, nationalism, fascism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics.\nThe right advanced capitalism, whereas the left advocated socialism (often democratic socialism) or communism.\n\nLIBERAL-Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. Liberalism has its roots in the Western Age of Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought. Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights. It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, free public education, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected. In modern society, liberals favor a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed.\n\nCONSERVATIVE-Conservatism is a political philosophy that necessitates a defense of established values. Since different cultures have different established values, conservatives in different cultures have different goals. Some conservatives seek to preserve the status quo, while others seek to return to the values of an earlier time, the status quo ante.
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Neither, the closest I can muster is libertarian (socialy liberal, fiscaly conservative).\n\nVote independant, the two party system has failed, stop the corruption.\n\nand to those who say liberals are more like comunists... both liberals and conservatives are closer to comunisim than libertarian. Lest we forget the deffinition of a comunist... a social conservative, fiscal liberal.\n\nIt seems to me most americans now-a-days meet this definition (comunism), and are afraid of freedom.
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Conservative Democrats.  They are not aware of how conservative they really are.  I want the liberals out of the Republican party.
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Democrats are people who like to help all people, especially the working class and poor.  Republicans like to cater to big business and extremely wealthy people and drop programs to help the needy.
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Liberal Democrats, definitely. There's no way a conservative would dress like that.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.  The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. \n\nSeriously though, the Democrats are the party that believes: The national government has a central and positive role to play in bettering the lives of all Americans.\n\nWhereas the Republicans believe that business, if left alone, will govern the market, control the people, and reach a natural balance between the haves and needs of society.\n\nIt's the balance between these two that makes our country strong.  Too much of either one and you have the government growing in size (Democrats, historically) or completely ignoring problems that are directly caused by business (Republicans, historically).\n\nThe last few years have been very different for the Republicans.  They've moved from a conservative base to one not quite comfortable to most Americans.  Whereas the Democrats, who were historically liberal, moved closer to the middle.\n\nThe problem with this is that a liberal is always an ideologist and a conservative is not.\n\nA conservative with an ideology is either on the way to being a liberal or a neoconservative, depending on whether that ideology favors isolationism or greater inclusion.\n\nThe neoconservative who is successful in pushing their ideology will eventually become an authoritarian.  They will then immediately feel the recoil from a public who is, by nature, ideological. \n\nThat is what happened this week.\n\nI believe that the Republicans will once again start being conservative and that the Democrats will start to move back towards their historical liberal ideology.\n\nHope that helps!
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The Republican Party aka the GOP (Grand Overclass Party) are minons of the rich and powerful.\n\nThe rich don't like to give their money or influence to anyone unless of course its makes them more money. They also like to use other people's money (our tax dollars) to benifit themselves not the poor or powerless. \n\nSo the term compassionat conservative is just more bull shit those Republican assholes are trying to use to hide their selfish nature. \n\nBush and the GOP...conservatives my ass! Conserve means to protect and not waste. These sons of bitches are doing anything and everything BUT that! \n\nConservative is the biggest bull shit lable I have ever seen in my life. These minons of the rich and powerful also coined the term liberal and that's horse shit too.
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For a REAL answer...Republicans generally tend to want the power to go to the states and don't believe in big government (hence the tax cuts).  Democrats generally DO want lots of federal power and believe that government-sponsored programs will cure everything.  Obviously my answer is biased too, but at least I put some thought into it.  Also, Republicans tend to be much more conservative in their moral views than Democrats.\n\nOne more thing- Both parties are made up of the rich and the poor.  Hollywood tends to be Democratic (uber rich), and people who USE government programs (uber poor) are also usually Democrats.  Republicans are made up of uber rich CEO types as well as working class people who just want to be able to use their money the way they see fit rather than have the government support the afore mentioned group of Democrats.\n\nI can't stay away from this thread!  3rd time today...I'm a teacher in a public school- not at all rich...and I'm Republican.  So it's not all about rich people vs poor people (as I mentioned above).
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Some conservatives are Republican and some are Democrats. Since we have only two major parties, the reasons behind why a person chooses a party over the other can sometimes be baffling. That's why they say that there are conservative, moderate, and liberals in every party (and some fanatics and extremists, too from each of those three). The two parties do their best to represent all the members within. A person may be a social conservative, but an economic moderate and choose to be a Democrat because the economic issues hold more importance than social issues, or vice versa they may choose to be Republican because social issues are more important. You can have a socially liberal person who is also economically conservative and very moderate on other issues who due to their conservative stance economically chooses to be Republican. Or because of their very liberal social views will choose Democrat, or will choose neither because the issues that are important to them aren't strongly emphasized either way by either party and will register as independent (my sister being a good example)
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Repubublican is right wing i.e. Conservative and the Democrats are more left wing i.e.Labour
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A conservative usually tries to keep the system the same. A liberal tries to change things. Generally Republicans tend to be conservative and Democrats tend to be liberal.