People like POS usually mention Reagan and tell a few lies about him, when they run into a subject where they can't refute the bad things said about their agenda, and want to divert the subject.
Back to the subject:
Modern liberals' weird ideas about economics, as exposed by this poll, are more then just an oddity. They are the core of their philosophy, and are the fundamental difference between conservatism and modern liberalism. Liberals feel that using government to "help" people has more beneficial effects than bad effects... a conclusion they come to after ignoring most of the bad effects. Conservatives believe the opposite: That using government to "help" people has more bad effects than good... and that the bad effects tend to increase with time and discourage people from doing good things (like working hard and being self-sufficient).
As a result, liberals (in both parties) tend to grow government more and more, and have it take over more and more of people's formerly-private activity. The current administration is a prime example, with its "saving of companies too big to fail", its takeover of Health Care, etc. Conservatives, when placed in a situation where government is as big and intrusive as it is today, tend to try to strip programs and authority away from it, in an attempt to prune it down to the size where it does only the things private people or grous CANNOT do.
This poll is quite a landmark, actually. It identifies the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals, as clearly as I've ever seen it done. And it does it with their own words: people identifying themselves as liberal, also provided the answers to economic questions farther from reality than the people who identified themselves as conservative to various degrees.
Pretty hard for liberals to do thewir usual whining of "It's not so, you cheated, bogus poll" etc., when they are the ones who provided ALL the answers to the questions they were asked.
But I'm confident they will try anyway. That, or elect the more-frequently used response of ignoring it completely, just as they chronically ignore the bad results of their programs.
