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Re:The Self-Employed Depression by mahmud on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:50AM (#650748)
What does political affiliation has to do with financial responsibility?
Re:The Self-Employed Depression by yummyfajitas on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @09:49AM (#650985)
Democrats tend to view the poor/needy as people who were unlucky. Redistribution is justified as evening out the results of chance.

Republicans (excluding the 'lefty christian' ones such as Bush [1]) tend to view the poor/needy as financially/etc irresponsible people. Redistribution is not justified, being mainly just a tax on responsibility.

The example given in this article supports the Republican view more than the Democratic view.

[1] I use 'lefty christian' to describe the ones who support both redistribution/social spending/etc, but differentiate themselves from Dems using christian nationalism.