What are the coservative and liberal stances on the economy?

I am all too familiar with liberal/conservative stances on social and foriegn issues...such as military spending, lbgt rights, abortion.





I want to know how they stand on economic issues.What are the coservative and liberal stances on the economy?
Which conservatives did you have in mind? The fiscal conservatives or the social conservatives? The honest conservatives or the greedy rascals?





The big business conservatives who claim to want smaller government but demand their congress-critters get them special contracts, special subsidies, special protection from free trade?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/





Or the old style conservatives who warned against the excesses of the military industrial complex, who really do want to cut pork from the Federal budget, etc.?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-in鈥?/a>





Did you mean the conservatives who want free trade so they can get their raw materials in more cheaply


http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=鈥?/a>





or the conservatives who want their industry protected by tariffs and quotas?


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/6鈥?/a>





Do you mean the conservatives who claim that any business should be allowed to fail or the conservatives that succeeded in getting the federal government to use our taxes to bail out the savings and loan industry:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and鈥?/a>





major Wall Street institutions after the the sub-prime bubble burst:


http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/16/b鈥?/a>


http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/鈥?/a>





etc.





Were you interested in the stances of the honest conservatives, such as Warren Buffet, who told Arnold Schwarzenegger that California property taxes should be raised


http://www.capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?I鈥?/a>





or in the stance of people and politicians whose answer to every economic issue is either ';no new taxes'; or ';cut taxes'; - Schwarzenegger immediately fired Buffet from his position as advisor. (It seems clear to me that one reason that Russia was able to invade Georgia was that it knew that the U.S. was low on troops - all we have are committed to Afghanistan and Iraq - so the U.S. couldn't do anything. And how much of this is related to scrimping on military spending?)





The ones who can add and recognize that the Bush administration budget proposals and what McCain promises to do with the budget just don't add up, or the ones who can't and so accept the lies?





In case you haven't figured it out, there are conservative stances on the economy that I applaud, but they are not those of the politicians currently running for office or most of their supporters.





As for the liberals, their stance is less complicated. They want more money for the poorer people, which makes good economic and good social sense:


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/busine鈥?/a>





But many also want the benefits of free trade (lower costs, more U.S. exports, etc.) without the costs. Anyone who wants something for nothing is dangerous.


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article鈥?/a>





They certainly want to raise taxes on the rich, but have been exaggerating just how much is available from that well (their numbers are closer to adding up than the conservatives, but they still don't quite add up)





In between, there are a few moderates left. For example, Bill Clinton was all in favor of free trade and was willing to pay for the costs, but was (and is even more so now) on the conservative side of the Democratic Party on this issue.