[kaila]

The poor that I deal with are people receiving WIC, free health care, Section 8. Their lives are one poor decision after another. When they show up in the ER, all of a sudden they have someone who is forced to take their BS.
The poor today are not like the poor of even the 1980s. They now have developed a serious entitlement attitude, just like the author of this screed.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I.e. not a statistically unbiased sample.

[Paladin2]

Ones vision timeframe makes a huge difference. Plus the whole vision thing. Edjumacation is failing many. Especially the whole parential part. Making the vote contingent on being a maker or at least not a taker could be revolutionary.

[Patriotic1]

"The poor that I deal with are people receiving WIC, free health care, Section 8."

I don't doubt for a minute that there's an entitled class. The issue is the other poor - the working poor, the temporarily down on their luck poor, the elderly with no one, etc. I don't have a clue how we can cut off the entitled poor without harming everyone else.

I do agree that charity should take care of the poor (and I walk that walk) but we need to be incremental in our approach if we wish to gain the trust of the LIVs.