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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
liberals, small l, not Liberals, capital L. It was not a partisan party comment.
People lost sight of the concept of fiscal conservatism, and it bit us in the ass.
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Conservatives are the ones that practically invented the idea of deficit spending as part of modern conservatism (see Reagan and Mulroney).
It's counter intuitive and somewhat ironic, but "liberal" and "conservative" don't really correspond to their literal and historical meanings any more - at least not in North America.
They both spend like crazy... they just spend on different things.