If Republicans are against welfare and welfare bums that why do they love Corporate Welfare?
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They want you to think that someone else is getting an unfair advantage, when, if fact, they are.  The annual budget for defense is currently over $400 billion.  Companies like Boeing and Northrup Grumman make a large part of their income from defense contracts.  I worked for Boeing Airplane Company in the early 1980's.  I worked with high school graduates who earned over $7 an hour.  American commercial airplane manufacturers complain that Airbus has an unfair advantage because it is government subsidised.  But a large part of Boeing's revenue comes from defense contracts, which are highly lucrative.
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The Democrats want to take all of your money away from you, and give it to undeserving people either through useless social programs; or as grants, to people who donated to their election campaigns, to build the infrastructure for these social programs.\n\nRepublican want to take most of your money away, and give it to corporations in the form of corporate bailouts and corporate grants to perform public services.\n\nThey are both bad, but at least the Republicans will leave you with a little bit of money to live on.
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Republicans are for tax cuts for the wealthy, for the death penalty, less regulation for big business, keeping the minimum wage low, for the government to not help poor people if at all possible, pro military, anti universal health care, etc....\n\nDemocrats are for the working people, for the wealth to pay their fair share of taxes, business regulations to protect the working people, raising the minimum wage to a fair level, health care reform, to stop being the policemen of the world, etc...\n\nThe wealthy now have the lowest tax rates since the early 1930's the the Republican government wants to cut their taxes even more.  Meanwhile, we have the biggest national debt in the history of our country! Does that make any sense? (rhetorical question)
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Because Republicans believe people should work to better themselves, while Democrats have no problems living off handouts.
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Why are republicans money hungry idiots, willing to sacrafice Americans lives in order to make their pockets fatter?
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On social issues, Republicans are like introverts, they put themselves and their families above everyone else and don't think about how we have to work together as a society without it falling apart at some point... Democrats are like extroverts, caring about their own families, but also caring about other people, that might be why you always hear Republicans say things like "you feel too much for criminals" etc... There is probably some place in the middle that would work the best, you can't help everyone because not everyone wants to work, but you also can't force people to work for low wages like this administration does, just so some families can get richer... I might have voted for the old Ronald Reagan type of Republican, but this Nation has been way too far right for a lot of years... My opinion is that we need to let people see they can actually make something out of their lives if they work for it, and stop breaking apart our families, because the next thing to go is our nation... 8 million people in our prison justice system proves that we are out of time (it was 6.6 million about 5 years ago, I extrapolated)
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Money  for nothing and the drinks are free.  Lazy and stupid.  And liberals fight laws limiting welfare.  \n\nKeep working, millions on welfare are dependant on you!  \n\nSilly liberal, paychecks are for those who WORK!
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I wouldn't say that is 'Corporate America', but the republicans/Conservatives  who use that propaganda, even though both corporate and Conservatives want an unchecked, uneducated cheap labor pool.\n\n Not poor but middle class.
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because republicans realize that for this country to be successful and lead the world and move humanity ahead, that business has to be good and not taxed to death like our socialist democrat brothers would have you believe...\n\nhow did society ever make it without leaders who were pro-business...???
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The way I was explained that is that Democrats believe in welfare and other government aid but are usually more open-minded to towards social issues (like gay marriages). Republicans are more about people working hard for themselves without government aid (Capitalism, laissez faire, basically allowing companies to do what they want) but are less open to social issues.
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Mostly naive! They really don't have the ability to look beyond the problem. If they see someone hungry they want the other tax payers to rush in to feed in NOW..they won't look at why is he hungry? They want to treat the problem without looking at the source. Someone doesn't have health care...let's have a government run health care so everyone can enjoy free health care. Does someone not have a great job that pay's well...let's give them food stamps and more government based give aways..besides it's the evil rich who did thing. They want happy stamps..not the right to persue happiness.This is the reason the highest ranking Democrat is county dog-catcher. They mean well but they haven\n't a clue!
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Here's the problem I have with the "Neo-Con" mentality:\n\nThey are against teaching about birth control, against abortion, and against helping single mothers who didn't use birth control or get an abortion.\n\nThey seem to forget the most sweeping welfare reform of the last 30 years was signed into law by a Democrat. The "welfare-to-work" program gives people a chance to get off of welfare by helping with their education and child care. Republicans love to throw around the "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he eats for life" line, but then don't want to give him enough to survive until he can get to the "river".\n\nThey seem to forget the line in the Preamble to the Constitution about "promote the general welfare". Let me break that down:\nPromote-to contribute to the growth or prosperity of \ngeneral-affecting the whole\nwelfare-the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity\nWe have a responsibility to "contribute to the growth or prosperity of everyone". We are responsible for everyones "good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity". I donate time and money to charities, work at soup kitchens, and try to help those less fortunate than I.\n\nThey claim to be "good Christians" and then turn their back on those who Jesus said to help the most.\n\nI am a moderate, but call myself a liberal when I see how far off the deep end a lot of conservatives have gone.
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Republicans as a group don't "hate" poor people.  It's just that the needs of the poor are sometimes overlooked as the politicians are granting favors to their corporate friends.  It's easy to understand when you remember that there weren't any poor people who donated $10,000 to Mr. Bush's campaign fund.
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Looks like you already answered your question. Sickening isn't it?\n\nGalaxy500: Hey slick, could you please explain for me just how an increase in minimum wage makes people want to stay on welfare?\nThis should be a real hoot.
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I am a Republican, because I believe I should be able to keep the money I make.  I should not be expected to support anyone who doesn't work.  Plus I am from a state whose economics are based on oil, coal, gas, etc. which is supported by the republican party.
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IF THEY DO THEY ARE SOMEHOW MAKING MONEY OFF IT WHICH WOULD MAKE THEM A REPUBLICAN
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It is a typical act of a republican adminastration. They completely disregard safty and are not environmentally freindly. Favoring business and the very rich in all decisions.