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[RR1997]

"Being a fiscal conservative is not about slashing programs that help the poor, or improve health care, or ensure a social safety net. It's about insisting services are provided efficiently, get to only the people that need them, and achieve the desired results. Fiscal conservatives have hearts too – but we also insist on using our brains, and that means demanding results and holding government accountable for producing them.
To me, fiscal conservatism means balancing budgets – not running deficits that the next generation can't afford. It means improving the efficiency of delivering services by finding innovative ways to do more with less. It means cutting taxes when possible and prudent to do so, raising them overall only when necessary to balance the budget, and only in combination with spending cuts. It means when you run a surplus, you save it; you don't squander it. And most importantly, being a fiscal conservative means preparing for the inevitable economic downturns – and by all indications, we've got one coming."

-Michael Bloomberg, speech to UK Conservative Party, September 30th, 2007.

Bloomberg characterizes himself as a fiscal conservative for turning the city's $6 billion deficit into a $3 billion surplus.


Massive FQ

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

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I guess I'm a fiscal conservative, then. Freedom quote, even if I doubt this is what most "fiscal conservatives" believe.

[Kingpoleon]

FQ by HP technocrat.

If Bloomberg is a conservative in the U. K., count me a liberal Democrat. I thought they were a bit more like Scott Brown and Mitt Romney 1994.

[Antonio the Sixth]

FQ. I don't agree with the worldview at all, but genuine fiscal conservatism is certainly better than the GOP's shameless hatred of the poor and shilling to the rich and powerful.

[Intell]

Horrible, as fiscal conservatism means nothing.

[OSR stands with Israel]

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