I don't think any generalizations can be made about the poor.
Yeah, true. I realized after I posted that I should have said that they are no more lazy, greedy, than any other person. I just hate when the idea is put forth that the poor "inner city" people are greedier or any less human simply because they are poor. Especically when it come from people who are not poor and use it to justify getting rid of welfare.
I wish I could recall the reference, but you'd like to pour all of that money into the poor, the downtrodden, the unlucky? Spend it as fast as it's made?
What reference are you talking about?
My neighbor is a teacher at an inner city school. The kids talk about getting old enough to stay home so they 'can get their check' from the government. That's their sole purpose in life- to get a government welfare check.
I call shenanigans. This is second-hand hearsay - and I very much doubt this is true. I live in the "inner city", my sister teaches at an inner-city school and sees and hears no such thing. The poor are just that - poor. They are not lazy, greedy, or looking for hand-outs.
We've already got enough broken goods in this world. Lets search for solutions and reach for problems that might just lift us and build a new foundation, and just not try to shore up an already crumbled one.
OK - you go first. Let's hear some real ideas rather than these hand-waving platitudes.
Contrary to StarTrek, you will not feed, clothe, and educate every single person in the world. No matter how much I, and you, wish it might be possible:(
Again - platitudes. Cites? Why can't we feed everyone?
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Yeah, true. I realized after I posted that I should have said that they are no more lazy, greedy, than any other person. I just hate when the idea is put forth that the poor "inner city" people are greedier or any less human simply because they are poor. Especically when it come from people who are not poor and use it to justify getting rid of welfare.
Everyone who cares about helping people.
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