sounds like hypocricy to me.
2006-08-10 08:32:49 · 15 answers · asked by david c 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It depends on what you consider to be helping the poor.
Some might consider helping the poor to be giving them handouts. Others consider that to be a form of enslavement making them entirely reliant upon outsiders for their well being and one of these worst forms of human degradation, leaving them no opportunity for upward mobility.
Others might consider measures such tax cuts a great help to the poor. Tax cuts increase the amount of disposable income available in society. This means greater demands for goods in services, which leads to greater demands for workers which results in higher levels of employment and higher wages, including benefits such as health care.
Work also allows people to learn and hone skills which they can in turn market to other employers for higher wages, resulting a great deal of upward mobility.
Everybody wants the same thing, they just don't all go about getting there the same way. And, unfortunately, what is often the case, is that something will appear to be benign but will only in the end hurt those that were trying to be helped.
2006-08-10 08:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by dizneeland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know people that are democrats who supported Bill Clinton in his eight year term, and guess what, there situation never changed. Democrat politicians play into the hands of the poor like poverty stricken pimps. They promise the world to the poor so they can earn their vote, but the truth is, there isn't a whole lot either party can do to get people out of the ghetto. We live in a country where it's up to the individual to succeed. Now I know there are people out there who can't support themselves for good reasons and there are programs out there for them, but the poor who actually can work, it's up to them to get themselves out of the situation they are in.
BTW, I don't think we'll be seeing the poor in Iraq driving around in limos and living in mansions anytime soon. We are trying to put democracy in place so that they can have the same opportunities that we in America have. To be free.
2006-08-10 16:05:53 · answer #2 · answered by Conservative 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No no no no
They want to help the Poor Backwards OIL Companies do better by slapping a little Exxon and Halliburton on them!
I mean, imagine if an oil poor area like Massachusettes dictated what Texas and Alaska did with their oil and controlled them by force. That's just un-republican!
Therefore we got rid of that small minority guy Saddam and gave the oil back to the Kurds and Shi'ites who rightfully own it so they can exploit it and eveyrone else out there! That's the American Way!
2006-08-10 16:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Conservatives do care about the poor in America, but conservatives know the answer to helping the poor is not through more goverment programs. Goverment programs like welfare keep people dependent on goverment and thus enslaves them to goverment. Conservatives believe the proper way to help the poor is to teach them to help themselves not give them handouts. Children depend on others to live adults shouldn't depend on anyone except themselves to live. Don
2006-08-10 15:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by Don P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush's new budget cuts or eliminates141 programs for low income Americans to the tune of 65 BILLION.
His new budget makes tax cuts to the rich permanent!
Most idiots in this country do not have a clue about how supply and demand works!
The unemployed and poor are the buffer that makes that lousy system work!!
2006-08-10 15:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The poor in America vote Democrat.
2006-08-10 15:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So if I care about the poor in another country that make me not care about our own. What kind of crap is this. I guess a person is only allowed to care about ONE country. Is that it? or do you just need something to gripe about. If you are going to make something up why not make a good one. Geeze.
2006-08-10 15:42:41 · answer #7 · answered by bildymooner 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like hypocrisy becasuse it IS hypocrisy.
The poor have no cash value to republicans.What they really want is the Middle class,who pay most of the taxes and fight its wars mostly without complaint.But alas,the Middle class is dwindling,like middle class pensions are dwindling.They are running out of people to plunder.Hence they are running out of governmental control.
2006-08-10 15:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The poor in America are White Trash nobody likes them?!?!?
White Trash are a threat to middle America. Average working class people are so far in debt that they are only one paycheck from that doublewide. It creates a subconscious disdain for the poor
Go big Red Go
2006-08-10 15:40:53 · answer #9 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Conservatives are the biggest hypocrites in the world.
2006-08-10 15:42:11 · answer #10 · answered by courage 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋