«If by a fiscal conservative, one means a person who wants to reduce the size of government
through less government spending, lower taxes, balanced budgets and lower debt burdens, then Harper is clearly not a fiscal conservative.»
Not exact matches
The
government beat this projection by nearly $ 1.6 billion — by taking $ 1 billion from reserve, keeping
spending levels $ 600 million
less than projected, and
through $ 335 million of savings from lower than anticipated interest rates on
government debt.
He was a governor who, facing divided
government and a Democratic - leaning electorate, managed to produce a more or
less sustainable budget (overwhelmingly
through spending cuts) while maintaining core
government services.
If it is the case that not intervening would have led to a significant massacre within this week / fortnight, there is a pragmatic
lesser evil case for on balance supporting a not very well thought
through intervention (the US has clearly not
spent a long time doing this), and a stalemate, and then looking to the Arab League to mediate a political settlement over time in which the
government can't win by massacre.