POVERTY: For poorest of poor, each day's a struggle

Re: POVERTY: For poorest of poor, each day's a struggle


12 hours later, am I the only viewer.....?

I know people who work blue collar jobs making 15 to 30 dollars an hour, who would rather see their tax money go to the rich than to help out a woman like this. They don't want to see someone having a "free ride". In their pathetic, warped little minds, everyone is capable making a good living and no one should have to be on welfare.

I call those people idiots.

That's a good word for them, Gus. Short, straight to the point, easy to remember.

You made me recall that much of the opposition to humanitarian endeavors on the part of our government does not come from the moneyed classes -- they couldn't care less about the plight of the needy -- but from the hard-hat brigades. They seem to have this motto of "I made it on my own, why do I have to pay more taxes to support people who can't do what I did?" That's a specious argument, of course. Not everyone born into poverty is capable of extricating oneself from that morass.

I still find it utterly appalling that in the richest country in the world (according to its own press releases), 90 percent of the wealth is controlled by about two percent of the population.

bm

Nobody has stood up for the poor in the USA, or most any place else, in years. It is fashionable to consider them leeches and bums. What Gus said.

What a relief to see this thread. Thanks.

What! Don't you people want the return of the medieval feudal system? The nobility will rule the land and serfs will beg for their bread and medical care from the churches. How could you reject such a tried and true way of life??? Just ask the Bushies - they'll tell you.

I've worked for years with food banks and it always amazes me how hard poor people work. They don't always work smart, but they do work hard - especially the women. A few bad decisons and these people find themselves in a hole that is too deep to climb out of without help. Our society has designed a system that keeps them in that hole until it becomes a grave. We really need to learn that by investing in these people we are investing in our society. A country is only as strong as it's weakest citizens. No one wants charity and "free lunches" don't work, but we have designed a social system that keeps the poor poor and the rich rich. I can't say I see any big changes for the better any time soon.

I think "few bad decisons" - that's really a key sentence.

If we normal Joe's make one bad decission, we might get angry about that, even start a threat with that topic here .... but for others such is really a big step forward to their grave.

Yes, cruel, heartless idiots.

Re: POVERTY: For poorest of poor, each day's a struggle



No.

Yes, exactly.

How can anyone one make it or save ? No Jobs ? food high and everything else is so expensive .... ?