Why do people keep saying that?
2007-06-25 07:32:39 · 18 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Most of the people that say that sort of stuff are engaging in baiting.
2007-06-25 07:35:47 · answer #1 · answered by Cribbage 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
During the Reagan administration it was popular for the new Conservatives to complain about all these lazy bums that were living off welfare. As long as they didn't do anything about it they could demonize liberals as people who were wasting tax dollars on thes lazy welfare chiselers. During the Clinton administration welfare was reformed so that able bodied people got cut off if they didn't have a job. This was during the boom years of the Clinton administration and there were a lot of high tech and service jobs. When neocons say that liberals don't work they are stuck in the past. That is an old stereotype from the Reagan years. Neocons have always gotten away with generalizing and stereotyping liberals. Rove takes it to a ridiculous extremes. People are waking up to this. The word liberal now has positive connotations, while even Conservatives. consider the label neocon an insult.
2007-06-25 15:10:43 · answer #2 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably a matter of applying the economic doctrine of rational, self-interested, decision making to the liberal tendency to support entitlements. If liberals are rational, and, if they support taking money away from the wealthy and the employed to give to the poor and unemployed, then, logically, they must be poor and/or unemployed.
Obviously, there are some flaws in that reasoning. One is a failure to account for the altruistic impulse. Another, of course, is attributing rationality to liberals. ;) I'm sure there are others.
2007-06-25 20:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conservatives don't believe that Liberals don't work. What they believe is that with high taxes and a system of public spending that goes way beyond a safety net, that the incentive to work hard and produce is weakened. I know some liberals who work very hard, their flaw is just that they want to spend my money as charity instead of their own.
2007-06-25 15:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by fuchumain 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've been a liberal all my life and worked since I've been 16
Most of my friends are liberals and ALL have jobs
Thats just crap coming from people that like using scare tactics to get you to "vote for the republicans or the non-workers will get you money"
Politics at its worst, something you'll hear a lot from the so called conservatives. (if they were conservative at, we'd still have the surplus of cash that the former President gifted them with, instead we have the largest deficit in the history ofthe USA)
2007-06-25 14:40:47 · answer #5 · answered by Deidre K 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It's a generalization,a caricature.It's a form of playful demagoguery.It can be used hateful but that's not always the case.
Liberals have theirs.Like saying all conservatives are chicken hawks
2007-06-25 14:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I work and volunteer (in quite a dangerous area).
Guess they don't mind insulting people.
ps) if there isn't full employment - isn't it the fault of bush and the government, and why is it fashionabe to attack the economic victim of all this?
It is all severely sick and twisted frankly.
2007-06-25 14:40:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
obviously most do. I suppose its because in general liberals seem to push the welfare state and socialistic programs.
I am sure not all do but many do.
2007-06-25 15:08:45 · answer #8 · answered by sociald 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stereotypes and unwarranted generalizations are the first and last resort for the intellectually deprived.
2007-06-25 14:37:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
I've lived in DC for nearly 20 years and have never heard anyone say that.
2007-06-25 15:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋