I'd count myself as a fiscal conservative and I'd certainly say that my biggest beef against the current government is that they are running up unacceptably large deficits at a time of relative economic strength.

Like it or not we're pretty much at the peak of a global economic cycle, it just isn't going to get much better than it is right now in the near future.  Quite the contrary history suggests we're only about a year 6 to 18 months away from the start of the NEXT recession.  If we're ALREADY running big deficits and have interest rates at emergency low levels at the peak of an economic cycle we're going to be a complete disaster case when (not if) the next recession does hit.