Do democrats want Americans to be wealthy?

Question

For many people, the biggest draw to the democrat party is the promise of free hand outs. If democrats have a huge base of people due to their worthless social programs, what is their incentive to bring people out of poverty? If a party is "for the poor" how can they help you become rich? Do their policies ever help poor people become wealthy, or just give them enough hand outs to keep them alive until the next election?

superpolitics, i have the right to the pursuit of happiness, don't i? what if wealth is what makes me happy? can i not get that with the democrats? or do the democrats hold me back because they know how many problems wealth can cause a person? i appreciate them looking out for me...kind of like a parent

Answer 1

It is so hard for me to understand why in the world do wealthy people stay in the Democratic party. The first reason I came up with, is that they want power. If you can be the party with power and keep poor people poor, then you can continue to wield your socialistic agenda.

Will there come a day when the welfare class starts thinking for themselves and shake off the oppression of the socialistic democrats?

As long as the welfare class stays ignorant of the power agenda over them, they will continue to follow their leaders, just like a flock of sheep.

Answer 2

The only thing I like about the Democratic Party is their hands-off-my-life-decisions approach. I don't think the government should be able to have any say in who can or cannot get married, and they certainly shouldn't have the right to tell a woman what she can do with her body. That being said, their social programs make me sick. They create special classes of people, hook them into the system, and blame it on the Republicans. We are not a communist society, so there should be severe limits to the redistribution of wealth. Welfare should be limited to people who fall on hard times due to unforeseeable circumstances. It should not be used to bail out some idiot who doesn't have the willpower to keep her legs crossed or the common sense to use birth control, who has six children that they never were going to be able to afford in the first place. You want to help solve that problem? Stop catering to them, and make them find a job. Social programs are largely failures. Scrap them and start dealing with the source of the problem: education. We are basically borderline retarded in comparison to most other fully-developed nations. How can things get better if the poor don't learn how to lift themselves up?

For the record, you're right, you do have the right to the "pursuit of happiness." However, you have the right only to the pursuit itself, not the happiness.

Answer 3

I don't like the tone of your first statement. I have been a Democrat probably longer than you have been alive and have NEVER known anybody join the Democratic party for handouts. Be sure and tell the Social Security Administration No thank you when you are old enough to receive it. Since it is a social program which you don't approve of you should not accept it. If you lose your job do not apply for unemployment as that is a socialist program too by your definition and if you are hurt on the job, buddy you are on your own. After all the workman's compensation is Socialist and since you are opposed to socialist programs you should politely decline. While you are at it make sure you have a well on your property because if you are getting water from a reservoir chances are it was built by the WPA and that is socialist too. Well, moneybags, I gotta go. Good luck to you.

Answer 4

You are out of touch with the way the welfare programs of today are administered. Many, many programs available to help people now are accompanied by the necessity to repay the aid. If you allow all the wealth to go to the top 10% of the population, and the rest struggling from paycheck to paycheck, what kind of a country do you have?

You must have a middle class to keep a democracy and support capitalism or you will end up with socialism. There is a delicate balance there. This is especially true since outsourcing has become so prevelant in our country. When most of the population can't make ends meet, you will end up with a socialist government. The top 10% will not be able to prevent this. Who can afford to go to college these days when you are paying for it the rest of your life and may not even be able to find a job that pays enough to repay the loan?

You have drawn a black and white line between wealth and poverty. You are excluding the middle class in your thinking.
You are confusing the welfare of the 60's with the programs the democrats of today have in mind. Welfare was overhauled during the Clinton administration and nobody wants those old 60's programs back. Then people could live better on welfare than by working which is completely wrong.
Rewarding laziness is not what democrats want either.

Is making a college education affordable a way for lower income people to leave poverty? Is helping people to get medical insurance a way to help lower income people to leave poverty? Your ideas of the democratic party are biased and not well thought out. Things are way out of balance in our country right now and need to be corrected before it is too late.

Answer 5

I don't think that Democrats want EVERYONE to be rich, nor do we desire to implement "worthless social programs". I believe we want to help people to better themselves, to help the poor, sick, disadvantaged but also to better the system we have in place now. You seem to be under the impression that Democrats are a "free handout" party and nothing could be further from the truth. While Democrats come from all walks of life their main resolve as pertains to government is to help the citizens of this country to aspire to something better (not richer), to have a government that cares about the individual and to protect our ideals.

The fact still remains if you want a better life, YOU have to go get it. Get the education that will lead to a better job, get the health insurance that will benefit you and your family and make enough money to set some aside for your old age. Those are not free handouts, they are your duty or responsibility, if you so desire.

Answer 6

sounds like you need a reality check. the dems and liberals want to tear down the middle class in this country and only have them and the poor and with government hand outs they can keep you poor. government is not and should not be involved in the redistrabution of wealth. if you buy into the fact that the govenment owes you and that you want the handouts instead of making your own way well they win. it is called socialism or simply put thay want to control everyone from the cradle to the grave one flaw if everyone is on the government dole how do they pay for it all? instead of expecting the government to take care of you should be trying to keep the government out of your life and to reduce not broaden it.

Answer 7

Not counting themselves, or the Hollywood crowd, they would want everyone to earn the same amount of money. If someone earns too much tax them until they make what everyone else earns.

Better yet go on welfare and the Democratic government will provide an income (i.e. welfare check) of the amount that the average working person earns.

Another way to get free money is to start a "special interests" group. Just make sure that the group's agenda is liberally oriented.

And if you're poor, hire Edwards to make a speech on poverty. He'll do it for a measly 55 thousand dollars.

Answer 8

The Democrats are a capitalist party and, as such, they have no interest in lifting people out of poverty.

Great wealth doesn't come out of thin air. It is created by the raping of the working class. Wealth creates poverty. In a world dominated by capitalism, 42% of the people live in abject poverty on less than $2 per day. That percentage doesn't include the large number of people in the leading capitalist nations who earn more than $2 per day yet still live in poverty. These are the very people upon whose backs the success of capitalism rests. If those people were treated fairly and provided a living wage, profits would collapse and so too, would capitalism.

The line in the sand isn't between Republicans and Democrats. They are both on the same side. The line in the sand is between the working class (left-wing) and the wealthy elite (right-wing) whose interests are diametrically opposed. The capitalist gets richer and richer when workers work longer and harder for less and less.

Answer 9

I know Democrats don't want people to live in poverty.
I know Democrats resent it when the CEO of a corporation makes $200 million a year while their employees health benefits are cut due to the "high cost of health care".
By the way, Matt, aren't Republicans the party of "cheap labor". Obviously you can't get enough cheap labor, so Bush wants to start importing it.
Do republicans want all people to be wealthy, or only themselves?

Answer 10

Democrats want Americans and America to be HEALTHY. It's most likely more important to most Dem's than wealthy.
I don't care if you want to be wealthy. Most of us would like to be at least comfortable.
You are wrong to consider the help people get, "hand outs". Social programs are used by dems AND republicans. Some day you may need some help. And even though you're not a democrat, I hope you'll be able to get the help you need.