We just disagree on how to achieve those things.
Your Lib friends may agree with those goals. Problem is, the Lib leadership does not.
Instead, the Lib leadership seeks a society composed of leaders (them) and the led (everybody else). Thus, in a very real sense, poverty is their friend and prosperity is their enemy.
Sad, but true. The Lib leaders cannot help but know that their formulas do not work. Their motivation is power, and the promise of a government that takes care of people is just the bait they use so sucker in the credulous.