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Pretty much everyone in life starts off poor, but with a little education, work and long hours you can get out of being poor.
Some like me worked graveyard while going to college paying for all their own stuff.
You have to be self sufficient, if you want to wait for others to do it for you then life will PASS YOU BY.
Okay, I've read a lot of posts here the past couple of years, and I've often put out the accusation that most conservatives hate poor people. Conservatives, of course vehemently deny it and say that they don't know anyone who feels that way, so I thought I'd start this thread and ask this honest question. What is your attitude toward the poor?
1. Are they mostly people who have had hard luck?
2. Or are they worthless scum and are a drain on society?
3. Is there such a thing as "working poor" in your mind? And if so, about what portion of America's poor do you deem to be "working poor."
4. What would you do if you witnessed poverty in your own life--not if YOU became poor, but if you came into contact with a poor person, child or family?
5. Do you or have you done anything to help relieve poverty in your community? If so, what do you do? I'm not asking you to brag, but just share if you do.
You might think I'm trolling, but I'm actually curious, since you all deny that you hate poor people. I promise I'll read your responses with an open mnd. I swear.
Thanks
mackinac
Most Conservatives started out as poor people, they don't hate them. They do know if you get off your dead butt, you don't have to stay poor. They know there is no excuse for failure, because they lived it.
Then there is your side, the ones who do nothing but demands free handouts from the government.... Why work when obama will make the good people who worked for a living, pay the bills for the rest..
Yes, you sure picked a winner to support......
WestCobbDo fast food places hire the homeless, 3? Where do they shower? There's places you can go the river always has water.
What address do they put down on the application? Here you can get a P.O. Box for $30.00 a year, put down the cigarettes and they can afford one. How about all the tattoo's some have, are those free these days.
Let's say they both get jobs. They would get an average of around 30 hours a week, at $7 an hour that's $210 each x 2 = $420 x 4 = $1680. Is that enough for rent, utilities, food, etc?
How much do you think they are making sitting there with a bucket in front of them asking for people passing by to put money in??
Geez I wonder how any of us that graduated in the 70's and 80's ever made it. Sometimes you just have to figure it out and do what you need to do to make something of yourself.
I find it funny how most of the same conservatives who will rail on about deadbeats sucking off of welfare, and yell how people "need to get a job", will go to church on sunday, and talk about family values. Yeah that's exactly the message christ gave about the poor "Amen, i say unto you, stop sucking off the dole you lazy bum".
If you really cared about the poor, you wouldn't make fun of those church people. They give millions of dollars to help the poor every year.
But you probably don't care about the poor. You just like to trash church people, right?
I think the main difference is that for liberals like me, most poor are "working poor" who would work, but can't catch a break. Truly, many poor are that way because of their bad choices. I've met many personally. But I don't think that's as prevalent as people think. I simply don't.
Conservatives, on the other hand, think that most poor are not "working poor" but that they did something wrong to get themselves in that situation. I see it a lot on the forum: Liberals default to one view and conservatives default to another. Just my observation.
But why does it matter? Why do you care if the ratio of working poor to deadbeats is 90/10, 70/30 or 30/70 ?
The solutions are the same.
I think the big difference is in the solutions. Many of us believe this is not a government problem, and in fact government is the problem.
Many of us think that private charities should take care of the unfortunate among us, not government.
I'm sure conservatives think of the poor just the way Jesus did, with compassion and charity.
Man, I hope the soda I spit out on my keyboard dries up!
We do. And that's why we contribute millions of dollars every year to charities.
I hope you get a new keyboard soon.
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