Okay...I will bite...I am a "rich" democrat

while not bill gates/walton rich

spouse and I make good money

Still I am a democratic member


money doesn't change morals

:)

Hillary and Obama.

but why not for Edwards and Kucinich? :shrug:

Coming on DU and admitting something such as that.

Probably get you put on 50 'ignore' list.

What the hell could you possibly know about the downtrodden and disenfranchised?

Thanks for the post, greenbriar.

made it clear that folks here know a lot of wealthy dems. Not sure what your point is.

I laughed, anyway.

Money SHOULDN'T change those. Good for you, Greenbriar!

TC

It's funny, though, how much of my income goes to progressive causes while friends of mine who have millions give very little. Who was it who complained about the poor financial support from progressives? They were right.

:eyes:

That came up here a little while ago.

where you don't know the rhetoric you support doesn't help the people you think you're helping.

stereotype.

I saw my mother turn into a Reagan Republican the richer my parents became -- and my dad made a lot as a surgeon. He staunchly remained Dem and had the biggest heart of anyone I know.

I was at their house once when someone campaigning for Mondale came to the door and asked in a weary voice "who will you be voting for -- Reagan or Mondale?" I said "Mondale!" She looked stunned, literally stepped back and looked at the house and said "it seems that everybody whose house is brick is voting for Reagan, and people living in houses of wood are voting for Mondale. You're the first brick house for Mondale I've come across."

I know Biden -- and others -- have said essentially that the "rich" (paraphrasing) want what's best for the people and country, too; that they never ASKED for Bush's tax cut for the wealthy.

I'm currently poor, poor, poor, but I've been rich, rich, rich and I've always held the same values. You're a credit to the party and to your tax bracket!

Carry on!

:toast:

change morals. I have a friend who doesn't have to work yet she is liberal on some issues and not on others. On the whole she is more of an economic liberal and a social conservative (it's the abortion issue).

like it or not, most people will follow their own self interest and it takes a strong person to look at the greater good

i salute you and any others like you for your intrinsic decency

however we are all aware that a certain % of the population is only out for self and their morals change w. the wind

that's the type of "rich" people that some of us are attacking

not you, not clinton, not soros, etc.

the sociopath rich is what concerns us, we as humans are not that far from the apes, we share 97% of our genes with the chimpanzee, and a great % of people ARE easily changed by "what's in your wallet?"

you are more highly evolved and that's cool, but we're looking at those who didn't evolve too

I have been at both ends of the spectrum. Never homeless, but jobless with a family and no insurance. Now, through a stroke of fortune, I am a multi-millionaire, but I have been here at DU since 2001. I have been a democrat all my life, though my folks were fence-sitting republicans (after two terms of Bush, they're back on the fence).

I guess I always saw the democrats as being more "people oriented". I have never had to go on government assistance, except unemployment for 6 months, but that makes one appreciate the social programs for those that have not. I do not condone laziness, but I know how hard it is sometimes to find a job when the economy in your town/region tanks. The food stamp program is fraught with fraud, yet so many of those people's lives depend on it to put food on the table. I will always be a giver as long as I am able. I have already pulled a couple of people out of dire situations and helped them get back on their feet. It's hard to watch a buddies kids go without just because daddy can't find work or some catastrophic event changed the course of their lives.
I have life=long friends, the kind that would stand beside you in battle or share their last can of soup with you. You can't buy that, you earn it.

Thats when you start to see most corruption. People get use to a lifestyle and when they think they might lose it they will often pull all kinds of crap to keep their money.

is rich Democrats who don't think they're rich, and will tell us this every now and then. (You know, the posts that try to tell us things like, "yeah, I make well into the mid-six-figures each year, but that's nothing, that's peanuts compared to the REAL rich - those multi-billionaires who run our economy and/or government. So sure I may not work for $10 an hour like you, but in the big scheme of things, I'm an oppressed worker just like you! Solidarity forever!")

Or rich people (Democrats and otherwise) who forget that they are rich -- maybe start a thread to make mention of a religious message they got on a store receipt, not realizing that most people will be rather more shocked and/or amused to discover that the thread-starter just blew $200 on, like, three bras!

>most people will be rather more shocked and/or amused to discover that the thread-starter just blew $200 on, like, three bras<

Everyone commenting here has some kind of access to a computer, no? How many own their own?

It's amazing to me that there are people here who can't wait to judge the buying habits of other posters, and sure don't share their own to be scrutinized. I know the person with the bras. I know she worked to earn that money, and if she chooses to buy nice lingerie with it, that's her affair. I'd urge some here who can't wait to get on their high horse over the latest outrage! to consider that you know NOTHING about this poster's life, or most of the rest of us, outside of DU.

It's a good thing there are some here with two nickels to rub together. It takes money to keep the website going, doesn't it?

Julie

:rofl:

we lived on foodstamps and medical cards early when our kids were little while we were going to college


Now we give to those who live like we did

WE WILL NEVER FORGET where we came from

How'd you slip thru the radar?

Maybe it's "filthy" rich Democrats we need to ask about.

The difference between me and you might be $100,000/yr
but the difference between us and them is in the millions/yr

cheers.
n/t