America sucks in this day and age because of ignorant people like you. Your comments one after another reflect that ignorance and it is a shame you even speak on this topic.
You're looking at this from a very one sided perspective of "all poor people are slackers who have put themselves there." You're a sad statistic that persists in this nation.
Regardless of whether or not there are people who take advantage of society, there are people who are in that position through factors that may have been out of their control. Even after all the careful planning and work you have done in your life to avoid becoming a victim of poverty, you yourself may find yourself a victim of circumstance.
Your stereotyping poor people as
someone who doesn't take the initiative to advance
. That is a broad generalization considering this country has so many poor, I guess America is just full of a bunch of lazy, uneducated, dirty, unambitious scum. Sounds about right.
Common logic would indicate that if someone cannot afford heating oil, they cannot afford a conversion to another heating system.
Frankly, considering that you can get 30 bucks an hour easily--with pay increases and advancement opportunities, with NO education background, I _refuse_ to buy into this "I'm poor" nonsense.
Yes, and that is also circumstantial. If it is so easy, to obtain that kind of employment, those unemployment numbers must just be a joke.
If that is the case, then we're essentially taxing people who go forward with ambition and advance in the world--the very same kind of people who made America the powerhouse nation that it was in its heyday.
Taxing the working class has been a problem for many years. That is one of the subjects and arguments for tax reform. Many of those you speak of, the people who made America a so-called "powerhouse" are the ones who are suffering in the cold now, who are suffering from poverty.
You can prepare, but no one is fully insulated against disaster, economic or otherwise. You can talk about athletes, but many of them do give back one way or another, and yet people go out of their way to be fanatics and pay those athletes their salary (I guess you're not one of them).
Yet it is more economically advantageous to sit back and bum around, and leech off of free handouts, and live reasonably well.
I knew someone on welfare for a while, $113 per month for her and child. My transit pass costs more than that, I'd like to get to work, feed and clothe myself and my kid on that kind of money, woo hoo, we're living reasonably well.
The intent of many of these programs is to keep people going until they are back on their feet. Granted there are many scumbags out there that take advantage of these programs and they should be shot, however you Kevin fall into a dangerous part of this population that just looks at everyone who is in need as scum. I pray you never fall into that kind of situation and learn about this first hand, I would much rather you enlighten yourself and do some research, get yourself educated about something before you go around making rash generalizations.