I think you're unintentionally using a straw-man argument here... You could pretty much do a search-and-replace to take "fiscal conservative" to "social liberal," and you'd have crafted just as tight an argument against a side I suspect you agree with much more.

I think the problem here is not that one or the other of these broad movements is somehow deeply flawed, but rather that the government today is structurally biased against any but the largest, most short-sighted concentrations of power. Most of the folks I know who would describe themselves using either the label "fiscal conservative" or "social liberal" tend to have nothing but disdain for the opposing side, despite the fact that both have a common interest --- restructuring government such that their voices can be better heard. (Actually, I think that their goals are largely compatible, but that's another story.)

It saddens me that there is less cooperation on this front, since the real enemy here is the concentration of power in the hands of the few, and the corruption and ignorance it engenders..

Let's get something straight here: fiscal conservative hardly equals bad. It simply means being responsible with the money that we do have. Or, rather, it should. We also need to clarify what KIND of corporate welfare we're talking about here. Are we talking about the kind of corporate welfare that allows Wal-Mart to open up a store without paying property taxes for 5-10 years? You're right, that's bad. Or are we talking about a corporate bailout that allows thousands to keep working, who otherwise would be put on the dole looking for government assistance in the form of subsidized housing, food stamps, medicaid and a host of other government programs which will drain us more in the long run?

Also, the idea of tax breaks for companies attempting to go green is a great idea, especially if that's the final push that allows these companies to be environmentally friendly.

I say let's be financially conservative and wipe out ridiculous programs like the helium reclamation program ($7 billion at last count), the marriage initiative ($1.5 billion) and other such pointless programs that do nothing to make this country great. I say let's be fiscally conservative and wipe out pointless pork projects like the bridge to nowhere, and spend that on REAL welfare reform. Like the kind where we teach a man to fish instead of giving him fish, and tie welfare payments directly to children's school performance. Let's make the poor strive to not be poor anymore instead of just expecting the unattainable. If companies in this country are expecting bachelor's degrees just to get in the door, shouldn't we be making public college educations free so that we're not saddling our future generations with debt before they even get into the workforce?

If fiscal conservatism truly equals fiscal responsibility, then we really have no other choice but to implement plans like these.

Okay, I'm done ranting now.

The longer we wait on chopping 30-40 percent ACROSS-THE-BOARD in federal spending, the worse it's gonna hurt when they finally decide they HAVE to do it. Right now, it's elective surgery, the longer they wait the more likely it'll be a life-saving amputation as with a gangrenous limb.
Even at that rate, it may be too late, in my view, and right now we're faced with a Congress That Can't Say No, having wilfully submitted their signatures on a debt increase to the lofty sum of some $9 trillion dollars in red ink. Divide your 9 trillion by the 280-some-odd million people that live in america: That's about 30 grand per person, including granny, there.

We know where the pork is going, but who's going to bell the cat, who's going to call down the Pentagon as a tax dollar black hole? Bluntly spoken, granny's ALREADY been cut, she's 2 steps from living in the street so some fat lifer can get a bonus check. The pentagon is going to have to get involved in the budget-cutting necessary to bring things back into balance, but to hurdle that obstacle first there's going to have to be an open discussion on corruption in Congress, and good luck on that one...