“Too many seem to think that beating up on the poor is a winning strategy.”
It seems you are buying into the Dem propaganda.
Are you the same person who posted post #2 — it has your name on it, but your current post and that one are inconsistent. Your suggestion in post #2 is the answer.
“The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.”
Beating up on the poor isn’t the same thing as doing what it takes to ease job creation.
Take a look around FR and you will find a lot of people who seem to take a great deal of joy in bashing people for being poor. They are the ones enacting democrat strategy for the democrats.
Reagan actively reached out to the poor, not with promises of free stuff but with promises of betterment for all through jobs and a better economy.