Conservatives: How do you REALLY feel about the poor??? (border, support, doctor)
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As a person that holds certain conservative beliefs and preferences, I feel sad for the poor. I recognize the effect that the environment brings to the poor.
...However that can be fixed by offering a superior education. With a different school curriculum we could lift up the poor to the middle class....
Well, if I were to believe what the newspaper says and what I read on here, I AM POOR.
I am retired/disabled, wife has low level job, we have a house, TV, car. Between us, we make
about 25 a year.
But, I don't feel poor. We hardly ever eat out, rarely go anywhere, but we want for nothing.
I think life is a state of mind, nobody ever said it would be easy. I guess I would rather be free,
and have less, than be rich and someone I am not.
However did you afford a house on about 25 a year? How much down payment did you have?
Where I am at least there is assistance for the poor for paying utilities. The poor get medical care free. Food stamps. And every year there is a coat drive and all the kids get free coats if you can't buy them. There are plenty of services for the poor. The US is a great country to be poor in.
The unemployed college grads can be found on Wall Street not wanting to work.
that's usually only available to poor people who do not share housing with other poor people. (Where's the logic in that?)
those who share housing with other poor people often find that none of them are eligible for assistance paying utilities.
Well, if I were to believe what the newspaper says and what I read on here, I AM POOR.
I am retired/disabled, wife has low level job, we have a house, TV, car. Between us, we make
about 25 a year.
But, I don't feel poor. We hardly ever eat out, rarely go anywhere, but we want for nothing.
I think life is a state of mind, nobody ever said it would be easy. I guess I would rather be free,
and have less, than be rich and someone I am not.
A single person or married couple is not poor at $25K unless they have lots of kids.
I had a friend who was a social worker, and she said that it was some kind of "compensation" lower income families make. Because they can't get one set of luxuries, they overdo it with another to try to feel better or something
I'm a contrarian, so I take the opposite approach. I know that earning money is hard for me (and as a childless adult, handouts are practically nonexistent), so I hoard money when I get some.
What about burger flippers? Many of them work and are poor.
As we showed in my Facts about Welfare thread, 90% of people on food stamps are actually the working poor meaning they do indeed have a job, often 2-3 jobs, but they're just not making much even working all the light hours of the day.
Rich is enjoying what you have, poor is complaining about not having what you want. If you try sometimes, ya get whatchya need.
If you try sometimes, you might find, you get whatcha need.
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