Why do Republicans think blue collar people are lazy?

I am a Republician...I have also work since I was 14. I farmed all through High school, did some comercial construction and factory work. I just moved into an office job and I can say also that I will never forget the hard work I have done. You never really appreciate anything until you have busted you butt to earn it. I know that most middle class americans, DEM and REP have been through that. It is the upperclass in both parties that feel that way I think. Especially the younger generations of that class. The ones who never have done blue collar work, or now what it is like to work up a sweat, get beat up, cut and bruised and see something at the end of the day they can be proud of. It is the blue collar workers the make this country run, no matter what anyone says. The people who go to work everyday, doing jobs that many people couldn't handle or even want. Those people are the backbone of this country. BOTTOMLINE.

From my perspective, the blue collars are largely respected by Republicans and many of them are Republicans. I think the more accurate distinction is not between the color of the collar, but the association with the unions.

The way I see it, Democrats think that answer to most problems are due to greedy rich people, and we need to redistribute the wealth more evenly. Democrats think that successful people got that way because they cheated, or had some unfair privilege, and that the playing must be level to be fair. Penalize the successful and provide entitlements for the poor.

Republicans think that the answers to most of our problems would best be corrected through the free market enterprise. If we let the laws of economics work, then the problems would be resolved in the most efficient way. Republicans believe we should reward those who are successful and we should not encourage the non-productive with entitlements.

That is a horrible generalization. You might want to speak to my very blue collar father who happens to BE a Republican. He has sacrificed a lot to make sure that my brother and I had an opportunitiy to not be blue collar if we chose. Even though I chose a white collar path, I still understand that it is the blue collar workers who shoulder most of the work in this country. Now, I don't know what your tangent about taxes has to do with blue collar workers. I dutifully pay my taxes as well but I don't see a problem with complaining about them or working for causes and voting for people who will lower them. Lowering taxes benefits blue collar people with less cost passed on to them for goods and services. Example: if state and national taxes were eliminated from gasoline consumption, most people would see the prices drop at least $0.50 a gallon. If Gore had been elected and gotten his 50 cent a gallon increase passed, we'd be paying over $3.50/gallon in most places. How hard do you think that would hit the blue collar workers?

Finally, I don't hate you for having differing opinions. I think you're wrong about Republicans hating the working class but that won't make me hate you. I also believe that your party has abandoned your fight for the blue collar. You sound like my Democrat grandfather who never realized that they turned their backs on him and everything he stood for so he kept voting for them. I also understand your issues with the GOP. There doesn't seem to be anyone left to speak for the blue collar anymore. Even the unions have sold out to the far left.

Nobody "hates" you for being a Democrat or for coming from a blue collar background. A recent news article said that workers goof off two hours a day on average, and I can assure you that many "big union" blue collar people, such as the United Auto Workers, waste that much time even though they are paced by an assembly line. The UAW has created at least that much waste time through labor negotiations over the years, and has virtually destroyed our major auto companies as a result.

I find it funny that you work your azz off through HS and college and never relied on anyone for help. Not funny that you did it, it is something to be proud of, but it is funny because you say you are a Democrat and that is traditionaly the Republican 'way' of doing things.

Dems would have had you on all kinds of social programs and giving you money. Doesn't sound bad at first right?, but where does they money come for these programs? They would raise taxes, when it is unnecessary since you have proved that 'blue' collar folks, I presume from lower/middle class income family, CAN make a life for themselves. You CAN succeed without gov't handouts. AND you are a better person for it.

I admire your success, but your party affiliation boggles me.

What the hell are you talking about? I grew up poor, worked as a dishwasher(yes, it is a job americans will not do :), go through college on financial aid and work, and have never had a trust fund or anything else. I find that the people who contradict this life path tend to be mroe liberal.

Here is a test to prove my point. Find someone with a Che Guevara shirt or at an anti-globalism rally and ask them what they do for work. Odds are their careers include "activist," "college student," and "rabble rouser." Hint, those are code words for being unemployed.

I'm a republican, I am union and I am not Lazy.....Now if I were out of work and was on welfare and didn't even try to find work well that is a different matter, that would not only be lazy but it would be a waste of my human existance. Luckily I have a sense of pride. Thus I don't want anybody supporting me, even if it were you.

Why do SOME democrats think all republicans are white collar? See kid, the key is to try and look at individuals instead of automatically throwing accusations blindly at a whole group.

When did they say they were lazy? Go ahead and run the numbers of the Bush tax cuts to see who it really benefited....

The is the question of the era. As far as I can tell the GOP is numbered by selfish people who want it all their way all the time. Must have had issues in kindergarten.