Is being pro-capitalism a conservative position?

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Libertarian is neither conservative nor liberal.
Besides, homophobia itself is not definitive of a persons politics.

1. I stated in the post "These numbers could be off considerably, however ..."

2. We would be amiss to only count "workers", because some people who don't work may still receive social security, pensions, unemployment, or welfare. We would still count a retiree getting a pension as a "middle class person"? We would still count a retiree getting social security and a small pension as middle class ? We would still count retirees living off of investments and welfare as middle class ? We would count some unemployed people middle class too. It is possible that a Walmart worker, earning $15,000 supplemented by welfare would be middle class too ?

In 2011, 58 million Americans received monthly social security checks.
36 million Americans receive pensions

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/politics/ ... -security/

3. Unless you provide a definition of what it means to be "middle class", then you have no basis to say the numbers are wrong.

Capital as a store of wealth, is indispensable in the modern world regardless of ones political views.
'Capitalism' in this sense is neither liberal nor conservative, it is a fact of life.

So true, without Capital, and the fractional owners through 401Ks , we would not have employment, pensions, of taxes for liberals to want to spend.

Produce, save or consume, the basic question. Do we invest our wealth and knowledge in the future, or do we put the future in debt?

The easy answer is tax the unborn. Not getting a vote, the future loses.

"Conservative," and, "Liberal," are relative terms that cannot be properly understood outside the context in which they are being used.

The terms have become calcified in American political parlance, where they have been lumped together to cover a wide range of issues, and in the process have become increasingly detached from individuals' political self-identity.

In simplest terms, conservatives tend to a political view that says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Whereas liberals tend to a political view that says, "if we tinker with this, it might work better." Neither is, alone, a satisfactory means of governing a complex nation, and a balance between innovation and caution is always necessary.

But these simplistic notions of conservatism and liberalism often lead to contradictory results in individuals. A person may be a social liberal, a judicial liberal, but an economic conservative. Alternatively, another may be a social conservative, but an economic and judicial liberal. All permutations are possible.

And even if we confine the original post to a question of economic conservatism/liberalism, we still must understand that in context. An economic conservative in the United States is a very different creature from an economic conservative in Sweden, in Brazil or in China.