rjd970
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If you want to get into a semantic debate, have at it. Both myself and plenty of my friends consider ourselves social liberals (hell, I live mere blocks away from Cambridge). While some also consider themselves fiscal liberals, they distinguish spending from non-intervention. Spending goes on the fiscal liberal side; non-intervention goes on the social side. There are certainly some social liberals who are also fiscal liberals. However, being a social liberal is not a logical correlative to being a fiscal liberal. These are independent and distinct notions.
Agreed. I'm socially liberal...keep government out of my personal decisions in the bedroom and how I make moral decisions regarding a number of things. But I'm all for small government and fiscal conservatism. Liberals and conservatives tend to get a lot right on different issues, it just seems neither get everything right.