Poll Shows Most Republicans Think People Are Poor Because They Don't Work Hard Enough

[ProSense]

Poll Shows Most Republicans Think People Are Poor Because They Don't Work Hard Enough

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Findings released Thursday by Pew showed that...Fifty-seven percent of GOP voters said that a person is rich because "he or she worked harder than others," while just 32 percent attribute it to advantages they enjoyed. The results are almost completely flipped among Democrats.

Overall, 51 percent of Americans said that people are wealthy due to advantages in life, while 38 percent said it had more to do with hard work.

Pew also found that 51 percent of Republicans believe that people are poor due to a lack of hard work, compared with just 32 percent who attribute it to circumstances beyond their control.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republican-voters-pew-income-inequality-poor-rich

Wonder why?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017147274

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[sorefeet]

1. Hard work has put me on disability

5 years ago, well before my prime. But the kiss ass supervisor who doles out the hard work from the seat of his air conditioned office is still going strong. Making more money now and putting more in his pension and SS. . My mother worked 18 ours a day for 50 fucking years and is far from rich. In fact SS only. Every HONEST hard working person I know who has worked 30 or 40 years is worn out and NOT rich.

[Scuba]

2. They also believe in angels, exorcism, black helicopters and Sarah Palin.

[B Calm]

3. LOL +1

[Purrfessor]

7. And that a man born in Hawaii is not entitled to be president...

while a man born in Canada is entitled.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Love how the only dummkopfs in this survey are them.

Whenever I think about getting in the mud with these people, here are my thoughts:

"These people believe in a 40 year failure known as Trickle-Down economics. These people live to suppress women and poor persons. Swaths of these people are likely creationists. This table is likely more reachable than they are."

[ProSense]

5. Yup. n/t

[JaneyVee]

6. I know a lot of rich people, none of them have ever worked hard in their life.

They actually avoid hard work like the plague.

ETA: the poor people I know are the hardest working people I've ever met in my life.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. Some wealthy people I know have worked hard, but then so have far more

of the non-wealthy. It'a hard to fathom the depth of ignorance required to believe that everyone who works hard gets rich.

[rustbeltvoice]

8. excuse the ad hominem:

And reason, and history shows most Republicans to be ignorant, mean-spirited, dishonest, or a combination thereof.

[Enthusiast]

10. Most Republicans are victims of propaganda.

They believe the Fox "News" lies. End of story.

[ProSense]

11. It would be great

"They believe the Fox 'News' lies. End of story. "

...if it ended there, but as the graphic in the OP shows, it doesn't. The people they vote into office control half the legislative branch.

[spanone]

12. blatant ignorance on display....proudly displayed