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To: TimF who wrote (323778)	1/31/2007 3:11:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577908

This is empirical substantiation for the old cliché that conservatives just don't care about the poor, right? Wrong. In fact, the data do not tell us that conservatives are uncaring; they actually tell us that conservatives are optimists. Conservatives are relatively untroubled by inequality, and unsupportive of government income redistribution, because they believe the American economy provides private opportunities to succeed. Now this is the biggest bit of horse puckey I have heard since Bush told us the Iraqis would greet American soldiers with open arms and champagne. First of all, we no longer buy the compassionate conservative crap. Over the past six years, conservatives have shown very clearly that they only care about themselves. Case in point.....when Gulf residents where struggling in the aftermath of Katrina where was America's #1 compassionate conservative? Strumming a guitar in San Diego trying to raise money for the GOP. Where was his compassionate Sec. of State....in NYC shopping for shoes. Where was his compassionate VP.....in his vacation home on the MD. shores. The first thing we've learned over the past 6 years about compassionate conservatives is that they are not very compassionate at all. And so, if and when conservatives think about the poor.......and I doubt they do very often......they are incensed that the poor are not taking advantage of all the opportunties available to Americans like the stock tip from Uncle Edgar last week that saw the stock jump from $60 to $70. Liberals are far more pessimistic than conservatives about the possibility of a better future for Americans of modest means. And that's because statistics show that people born in poverty tend to die in poverty. That's something conservatives never bothered to check out. Stop feeding me, BS, Tim.....I am not as gullible as I was six years ago.

To: TimF who wrote (323778)	2/13/2007 11:01:42 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 1577908

Interesting observations... Consider the evidence. While 92% of conservatives believe that hard work and perseverance can help a person overcome disadvantage, only 65% of liberals think so. This difference of opinion, contrary to the convention, is not because conservatives earn more money. In fact, lower-income conservatives are about twice as likely as upper-income liberals to say they think there's "a lot" of upward mobility in America. If a liberal and a conservative are exactly identical in income, education, sex, family situation, and race, the conservative will be 20 percentage points more likely than the liberal to say that hard work leads to success among the disadvantaged...