Steve's barking at modern day conservatism and Liberalism

What's the difference between being a conservative and a liberal when it comes to what the government should do and what the government shouldn't do.
Now it's my understanding that the conservative movement in the United States Believes in as little government as possible while the liberal movement according to urban myth. The consensus belief that the modern conservative movement doesn't believe in a strong central bank, the original founding fathers conservative believed in a strong central bank and a strong central government and the liberals believed in just the opposite, my how things have changed in he last two hundred years.
Urban Myth of Liberals believe that  women has the right to chose conservative say no, right to life. Conservative belief that government should stay out of the lives of the citizens except when it comes to religion Liberals it is believed to be just the opposite. Now what can one gets from this except modern day liberalism and conservatism is inconsistency.