Why do republicans seem to think everyone who has money had to work for it?

Question

Don't they take into consideration the hand me downs. Seems like a lot of the wealthy didn't have to do squat for it. Why do they like to defend worthless people like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, etc.. Seems if they didn't have daddy's money they'd be on welfare and the reps would be constantly whining about giving them handouts..

I don't care what their politics are.. It's the point of it. They're worthless..

kathy_is_a_n... - umm, right.. I would want them taxed just like everyone else.. I'd never say they should be exempt..

Society panders to the rich.. I could live just off what they make from interest. It's easy for them.

It's more the point that they ridicule the poor as being worthless, but say nothing about the rich who are in fact worthless.

Grandma Susie- This has nothing to do with me.. I don't expect anything, but I do see the need for others to. It is possible to care about providing for the poor, even when you are not...

Answer 1

I totally disagree with you. I know a few republicans and most of them have 'old money', that was inherited. Republican views on the tax system support this. I also don't think they defend 'worthless people like Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie", etc. I think they defend each other, meaning... people who have conservative views and money. (I think vocal Republicans speak out against celebrities like Hilton and Ritchie because Republicans stand for the religious right. To them celebrity culture is ruining what is or should be 'good and right' in America - to a certain extent.) (You can see examples of this lack of separation of church and state in Bush's policies.)

In my personal experience, the people I know who do jobs that serve the public, i.e. police, fire, teachers, etc., are all democrats. I think this is especially true of people who work in low income areas, whether it us urban or rural. I think that's because republicans don't seem to care, or act like they care, about people living on the opposite end of life. I also don't think that most Americans understand what it is like to live low income, in the city or country. I think if more Americans were exposed to that, they'd vote Democrat, because they're the only ones who truly and consistently make an effort to aid and work in the best interests of those who are not 'wealthy' or even upper middle class.

America is majority rules. It's a shame though, with the recent election that meant that NEARLY half of Americans didn't want Bush. That has created a serious problem in America.

If I go back to your original statement.... the republicans I know (who are actually in my family) are so wealthy that they can do or buy anything. They get surprised when other people don't or can't. I'll admit that I am a teacher and I don't make a lot of money. I get pretty frustrated when I go to my Uncle's house and there's another new car in the drive way because he got sick of his land rover, or Mercedes, or corvette. I wish I was able to 'get sick of things' like that.

sorry about the ranting....

Answer 2

Actually, of the "Over $1 million a year" crowd, almost all of them are from old money. Very few people "break in" to the top money bracket.

And what does the Hiltons being democrats have to do with the question? Try reading before spouting out nonsense that just makes you look like even more of an idiot than you already are!

Here's a little bit of statistics for you.

Median Annual Family Income (50% make more, 50% less) can be represented by a stack of new $100 bills 1.6 inches tall. At the 90% mark (90% make less, 10% make more), this stack of bills is about 3 1/2 inches tall. at 99%, this stack is just over 1 foot. At 99.7%, the stack is about waist high (40"). At 99.9% the stack is 30 miles tall. Of this 30 mile tall group, over 95% are old money, not new money. New money makes up the highest percent in the 90% area, still only in the mid 30%'s. And a majority of the new money people in this crowd came from upper-middle class families. Don't believe me? Do some research.

Answer 3

Bush grow to be talking approximately this and the left wing whined and mis-represented the belief sufficient to close the belief down, even however usa needs some intervention contained in this technique. we are actually paying out greater desirable than we are taking into the account, and we owe some $fifty 3 Trillion in advantages to the infant boomer era with actually no longer something interior the financial business enterprise. i'm confident that no remember what the Republicans do, that they are going to truly demonstrate the belief to usa, as adversarial to the same old Nancy Pelosi ideology that they ought to "bypass it to work out what's in it". Bush's plan wasn't a million/2 undesirable, it only have been given undesirable exposure via the lib media. we ought to kick the government interior the a$$ to lead them to do what the electorate of this usa go with (via vote casting out the hacks) and then start up getting human beings to vote for reasonable measures that have a minimum of a few good indictions or historic backing with an honest probability of working.............incredibly than the Obama administrations plans to easily throw greater taxpayers money at it and need it is going away.

Answer 4

I wouldn't defend Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie against a dog attack. The are morons who don't deserve what they have.

On the flip side, look at what Hilton has done. She's taken her idiotic, I'm-stupid-but-I'm-cute reputation and turned it into a successful, multi-faceted business involving perfume, cosmetics, modeling, and music and she now earns several million year on her own.

Answer 5

you got a burr under your saddle because you hate rich people. Republicans don't defend these girls, why do you think so? Those little gals are obviously liberals not Republicans. I am a Republican, I work for what I have. I hear another guy carry on just like you do. He is a doper, a lazy bum, won't work at a regular job much over two months, blames everyone else for his failures, and lies like a dog. Ya'll could be twins.

Answer 6

I don't know know any Republicans going out of their way to defend Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, etc. However, I also don't hear any Democrats going out of their way to criticize the likes of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, etc., who haven't earned any of their wealth either.

Answer 7

The Hiltons are Democrats...Nicole Ritchie is a Democrat...

Can you do some homework first in this big place we call the internet before you come out and try to ask a question?

Answer 8

I don't think many Republicans think that. They have money so pretty much know where it came from. What they want to do is keep it and not give it to the government to spend on 1000 dollar hammers or toilet seats,programs to study the sex life of a beetle. Paying well fare to 3rd and 4th generation recipiants things like that.

Answer 9

Paris Hilton and those hand me downs are represent a very small portion of the wealthy.

Answer 10

That's a very small portion of rich people. Most rich people earned their way there. There are only so many Kennedys, Rockefellers, Gores, etc who inherited wealth. There are more people like Dick Cheney and, yes, even Pretty Pony John Edwards, who earned their wealth.