[IreneE]

Thanks for the link. However the rich and famous liberals I know in Hollywood, they are really all capitalists at heart. It is on the capitalistic issue — earning your own bread by the sweat of your brow and keeping it — that diffuses liberals most easily. However, when it comes to “other people’s money” I actually had a rich lib friend tell me that “poor people don’t know how to spend their money, it is better that the government does it for them”...

So there’s that creeping socialism for ya. Or creeping elitism. Part and parcel of our fallen human nature. Libs can’t be trusted or should I say — unthinking nonChristians can’t be trusted — because that’s what Libs are in the end, after all. Ask Ann Coulter.

[Dr. Ursus]

Paul Krugman- another self-hating liberal.

[Mad Dawg]

“poor people don’t know how to spend their money, it is better that the government does it for them”.

Of course your friend's description misses one important point: It's OUR money the government spends for the poor ... and this enables to poor to continue to spend their money unwisely.