Originally Posted by ETWolverine
First, define poor? What is the income of the poor? What level of assets?
Second, do I find poor people to be a cancer on our society, bleeding our resources, polluting our urban landscape and threatening our security?
Depends. Are they?
There are some poor people who are working HARD to be independent, and there are others who are professional couch potatos.
The farmer who is up at 3am milking the cows and plowing the fields and goes to sleep at 10 pm after a hrd days work of providing for his family has NOTHING BUT MY RESPECT. The urban father working three jobs to put food on the table for his family deserves respect and, where possible, help.
The professional welfare recipient who's not interested in getting a job because the gubment covers all his expenses? The welfare mommy who has more babies for no other reason than so that her welfare benefits will increase... that's a whole other story.
And "poor people" are not a threat to national security. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are a threat to national security, by dint of the fact that we don't know who or where they are or what their intentions are in being in this country illegally. The fact that most illegal immigrants are poor doesn't make poor people the threat.
Finally, in most cases it is not the poor that are causing the problems. In most cases it is those who are trying to "fix" things that are the cause of the problem. Usually by creating more poor and by creating an environment in which those who are poor have no desire to make themselves a better life.
In short, it isn't poor people who are the threat. It's LIBERALS who are "a cancer on our society, bleeding our resources, polluting our urban landscape and threatening our security?"
Now... as for what can be done to rid the country of this abomination of "liberalism"... try voting.
Elliot