I know. Yet this is often given on this board as the explanation for why liberals insist on engaging in this type of immoral behavior. Somehow when a "conservative" does the same thing, that argument does not hold.
I am an atheist myself, so the derision was mostly sarcastic.
I have my retirement set up. I'm helping care for aging parents.
Same here, on both accounts. Being the devoutly Christian liberal Democrats that they are, my parents did not manage to save a dime their entire lives due almost entirely to a long string of poor life choices.
How does religion come into play here? Or politics? Some people make poor choices simply because they make poor choices.