Are Democrats Northeast elitists or poor, uneducated welfare people?
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Joke question right?\n\nA few studies examining wealth in our nation and all have concluded the blue (democratic) states contain over 70% of our country's wealth... with the majority of that wealth in the New England states.\n\nBtw, a similar study blows the Republican argument that the majority of welfare recipients are democrat. This has turned out to be absolutely false. \n\nWhile a lot of poor whites and blacks in the South are on welfare and about half are democrat, the MIDWESTERN states of this country has an enormous welfare recipient rate with 85% of those recipients being Republican and white.
322594
Yes, the "Great Society" where income is redistributed to "help" people by making them dependent on the government, and in turn, dependent on Democrats who continue to raise taxes, create new taxes and give it out to others, creating more dependent people insuring that more Democrats will get elected. That's how they held power in the House of Representatives for more than 40 years.
906152
i completely agree. democrats are very uneducated when it comes to whats right for our country. i personally dont want to pay taxes for people who could work for themselves. we shouldnt give welfare to people just sitting on their butts. welfare should be earned through a steady job... and pay. and how is it bush's fault for 9/11. he hadn't even been in office for a whole year. did you know that what happens in one presidents' term is a reflection of the president before him/her? because clinton was too lazy to do anything... we are in this predicament with the middle east. and it is important to be in iraq. sadaam was like hitler. he murdered 500000 of his own people. we needed to get him out of there before he massacred anymore people. we are helping the country recover. it took more than a year to build rome.. so being in iraq will take a little while. \n\nim embarrassed that democrats are in control of congress. and im also afraid of how downhill we are going to go with democrats leading us.
24147
Hey thanks a lot. Its awfully nice of an enlightened liberal like you to make such a silly generalization. Not all republicans are rich, or white. No more than all democrats ar poor, or black, or gay, or whatever. We are all just people. Once we all recognize that, maybe we can put aside our petty differences, and make a real change for the better.
922266
Yes ; the Democrat Party is not being represented adequately . Most democrats do not loath our military . I can see that the left wing radicals are slowly trying to bring the democrats to communism ; and perhaps all of America .  If you look at who their heroes are ( and it's not America or our Military ) , you will find many communist ties . John Kerry , for one is honored in the War Museum in Ho Chi Minh, as a hero who helped them win the Viet Nam War AGAINST AMERICA . Kerry is a poor representative of anything American . I heard a little boy asking his mother about what Kerry said ..and then he said , " Mommy, is he an American "?
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This is an excellent question that would take me a few paragraphs to answer but it is late so I will try to summarize.\n\nIn brief, it has to do with being uneducated and easily manipulated by propaganda that targets their downcomings and prejudices.\n\nBelieve it or not, Rove has been quoted as using prejudices to manipulate votes of the poor. \n\nYou see, it is like this: if you can keep the poor ppl angry for being poor then they want to blame someone... then you convince them that the liberal socialist democrats just want to use all their hard earned tax dollars to pay for the 10 kid black family on welfare... things like that.\n\nReality is that more white poor on on welfare... it is because of the midwestern states.\n\nAnyways that is only one example but the bottom line is that their prejudices have been manipulated. Btw, I know this from first hand experience having been raised in a bigoted, Southern Repoublican family.\n\nI wish we could sit everybody down that makes under $250k per year and make them watch congressional debates of that past 15 years... they would see that it is the democratic party up there in Washington fighting for them, not the Republican party.
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LOL!!  That's a great point, I hadn't read those statistics.  I guess it's 'cause the Lib's have made a smoke and mirror's campaign suggesting that they fight for the "working man", and since the vast majority of the population makes less then 70K per year, that's who the Dem's try to appeal to.  It makes them look good I suppose to bash people like me, who put themselves through school, worked hard, and now has a job well above the national average.  It's a snow job.  I've always thought that the major distinction between Dem's and Repubs is that Repubs believe it's the governments job to create and sustain a country where you can achieve happiness, while the Dem's of today believe its the governments job to try and provide it.  If you work towards achieving your own happiness, I think you often fall into a higher tax bracket because of your ambition and work ethic.  Good question, thanks!
591899
I don't know about registration, but they vote about 92% Democrat, which is why both parties ignore them.
147812
clinton had TANF reform, and helped to get people off of welfare.  \n\nVote Democrat!
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Repuglicans like to lift the top box. They assume that all the boxes will follow, democrats lift the bottom box and all the boxes move. It really is that simple. For those of you that are talking welfare reform, where were you when Clinton did it. He started the welfare to work program. In Michigan you have two years to get to work and four years lifetime and you are on your own. None of you blink about spending 10 billion a month on a war that should have never been. To bad that repukes are so indifferent to the poor, because the are just an illness or a lost job away from joining the corp.
1050265
It is probably those dumb democrats, they don't seem to understand crap.
818089
Democrat because I believe in helping the lower and middle classes, not rich people and big business.
1002852
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!
790765
Bless you.\nAfraid that a lot of Democrat Voters have no idea what goes on in this country.  Many of them don't work and don't pay taxes.\nMany of them are doing good just to know what state they live in.
1024799
Well, more Democrats than republicans go to college....fact.  Therefore, more Democrats can think critically than republicans...fact.  Therefore, it makes sense that Dem states do better on IQ tests because it tests critical thinking skills.  funny.  I'm a socialist and I scored a 155.
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The republicans cater to the wishes of the wealthy. At the expense of the poor. Reverse Robin Hood.\n\nThe democrats cater to the middle class and the poor which is good, but they also include deadbeats who are too lazy to work, and  irresponsible people who have seven children and live off the government.\n\n\nRepublicans don't care if jobs go overeseas because their closest associates will make money.\n\nDemocrats don't care if your tax dollars go to wastefull programs so long as the money is spent in their district.\n\n\nRepublicans put restrictions on research that could cure diseases and injuries because it 'MIGHT"  be immoral.\n\nDemocrats encourage irresponsible sexual encounters by promoting abortion rather than behavior that is moral.\n\n\nIf you can't tell both parties disgust me, I voted independent or green party for every candidate. We need to shake up the whole system and start fresh.
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The ignorance in your question actually answers this question... because the lower income Republicans are weak-minded and fall for propaganda easily.\n\nGetting a low income Republican to vote is easy... all you have to do is convince him that the blacks and gays are wanting equal rights and want to live off his hard labor. \n\nThe low income ones are manipulated by prejudices.\n\nExamples, how many times to you hear Republicans on here do you hear comments about democrats living off welfare. Would it surprise you to learn that there are more Republicans on welfare than Democrats? It is because of the increase in job loss of the midwestern states that are all Republican.