Only 28% of Americans Agree With Republicans That the Poor Are To Blame For Their Poverty

[babylonsister]

Only 28%?

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/18/28-americans-agree-republicans-poor-blame-poverty.html

Only 28% of Americans Agree With Republicans That the Poor Are To Blame For Their Poverty
By: Jason Easley
Friday, April, 18th, 2014, 10:11 am


Chalk this one up as another GOP fail. A HuffPost/YouGov poll has found that only 28% of Americans agree with the Republican people that poor people lack work ethic.

The poll found:

Among all Americans, 44 percent said they think poor people are poor mostly because of a lack of opportunities, while only 30 percent said it’s mostly because of their individual failings. More specifically, 47 percent said poverty has to do more with the fact good jobs aren’t available, while only 28 percent said it’s because poor people have a poor work ethic.

Likewise, 52 percent said most wealthy people got where they are primarily because they had more opportunities, while 31 percent said the wealthy just worked harder than other people.

Republicans have been just trying to justify massive cuts to food stamps, unemployment benefits, and any other program designed to assist the non-rich on the basis that people who are struggling only have themselves to blame. They also justify tax cuts fo the rich based on the myth that rich people work harder, and are more deserving of their success.

People who live in the real world know how it really works. Most people who are wealthy got more and/or better opportunities than others. This doesn’t mean that they didn’t work hard for their success, but it does mean that they didn’t work harder, and are somehow better human beings than everyone else.

Republicans can bend, shape, and twist things in any way they want, but they can’t escape the basic reality. President Obama talks about creating opportunity regularly, because he knows from his own experience that a quality education, or getting into the right training program, can provide a path to success. Opportunity is a game changer.

The GOP is trying to sell America on the Koch vision of opportunity for none, but the American people aren’t buying what they are selling.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. It's just crazy-making

that the public at large agree with liberal positions on just about everything from climate change to poverty issues to reproductive choice, and Republicans still keep getting elected.

It makes you want to box the collective ears of the citizenry until they get it right about the connection between their votes, their beliefs and their values.

[davidn3600]

5. Religion, abortion, guns, and gays are the reason the GOP keeps winning

The GOP voters are willing to vote against their best interests because they don't trust the Democrats on those wedge issues.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. But most people are for gun control, reproductive choice, and LGBT rights, aren't they?

Wikipedia:
A Washington Post/ABC News poll from February–March 2014 found a record high of 59% of Americans approve of same-sex marriage, with only 34% opposed and 7% with no opinion. The poll also revealed that 53% of the population in the States that currently do not allow same-sex couples to marry approve of same-sex marriage. 50% of respondents said that the United States Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry the person of one's choice, regardless of that persons's sex or sexual orientation. 41% disagreed, and 9% had no opinion.[15] The same poll also found that 81% of people found that businesses should not be allowed to refuse to serve gays and lesbians. 16% disagreed, and 3% had no opinion. 78% thought that gay couples can be "just as good parents" as straight couples, while 18% disagreed and 4% had no opinion.[16]

[babylonsister]

8. Because they're sheeple and willfully ignorant.

There's faux and an abundance of r/w radio; they listen and vote according to what they're hearing without the benefit of different pov's, even when it's against their best interests.

[bamacrat]

2. Isn't it kinda sad that 28% of people blame the poor?

I mean yes there are people with no work ethic who game the system, benefiting only themselves. There are also poor people with those same attributes.

[malthaussen]

3. It is and it isn't.

In most polls in the US, 33% of respondents are stark, staring mad. So 28% is 5% better than that.

-- Mal

[Bandit]

4. I bet the same amount back the USA using Torture or believe Republican policies are good

for the economy. They are just not tuned into reality.

[City Lights]

7. The diehards.

The GOPee can count on support from 28% of the populace under any circumstance. In their eyes, the GOPee is never, ever wrong.

[KamaAina]

9. There's that 28% again

that's the same percentage that thought Bush* was doing a good job, deep into his second "term".

[whateyethynk]

10. A Special Bible Message for the GOP and My Journey Back to Where I Started

"No" on raising the minimum wage?
"No" on expanding Medicaid in (most) red states?
"Yes" on reducing access to food stamps?
"No" on tax reform that would see the rich pay their fair share?
"Yes" to the belief that poor people are poor because of an in-bred "cultural pathology" that makes them unwilling to work as hard as their "betters?"
"Yes" on thinking we should be the boss of the world and that war on our terms is the answer?
"No" on student debt relief?
"No" on an extension of unemployment benefits?
"Yes" to the belief that conservatives know more about what God wants and He wants them to say"No" on science?

Why, yes, the Bible does have something to say about that:

Full article w/ Sodomite quote from book of Ezekiel @

http://whateyethynk-politics.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-special-bible-message-for-gop-and-my.html