This is a retort to what Frogboy said within an acticle about Terry Schiavo:
In fact, why stop there? How about the people are incapable of feeding themselves without government subsidies? Billions are spent providing food to people who somehow have managed to screw up their lives to the point that they can't afford to pay for their own food. Should we stop providing them food?
Granted that this quote was just to make a point but in reality, many here at Joe User would agree with this. Poor people are stupid bafoons who just take up space because they are too scared to work hard enough. "Why don't they just pull themselves up by their own boot straps?"
In order to 'pull yourself up by your own boot straps' you have to have boot straps to do so.
There is a major thought to those, it seems, who have that it is something every one can get if they just work hard.
You don't have savings? You didn't work hard enough.
You don't have health coverage? You didn't work hard enough.
You job pays you 7 dollars an hour? Your IQ is too low anyway.
No education? No food? One or more kids? Who's fault is that?
Lets be honest here about life: Shit happens.
Abused wife ends up on welfare: Its her fault
Man looses job (low wage job) so he didn't earn enough for savings: Its his fault
Unemployment runs out and savings is spent: Your fault, you must have did something
Employer refuses you unemployment: Your fault
Get hurt in an accident: You did it, not me
Fresh out of college and haven't found anything: You should have been at the top of the class then
One of your kids get sick: Who told you to have kids?
Wife or husband dies: Your just a sucker anyway
Parental care: Your parents should have worked harder
I have 2 jobs but don't make enough for insurance or to save anything: I bet you did something in your life to be in that place
What I also here from some Joe Users is that 'I used to be poor and everybody I knew was a dumbass'. One person wrote, "I work with public assisance people and they are dumbasses."
I find that most people who think this way tend to be the following (this is where I get judgemental)
Never was an adult who was poor
Never was an adult with kids who was/is poor
Can't tell when someone is just trying to look big when they actually feel small
Feels that, through hard work ONLY, they made it and there is an AWESOME amount of space for you to make it too
They just know what it is like to grow up in a poor community with one parent with a poor school
There can be no reason why someone could POSSIBILY be on public assistance
Most jobs in the US pay 30,000 a year so there is no reason to be someone who stays in a entry level job
Medical bills don't effect
Not eating allows you to think better in school growing up
Working 2 jobs and going to school is easy and look someone made it, why can't you?
If you don't have money, then just get a job. It doesn't cost money to get a job
I guess I could keep going. I am personally on public assisnace and I can tell you NO ONE is proud of it (except for a few). I can tall you that some people talk real big about how they can cheat the system but it is all a major front. I personally don't like being fingerprinted and inspected to see why I need public assisntace. I don't like having a public asistance car and having to use it to by food. Neither does most of the people I met (or have ever met living in a poor nieghborhood). I don't like having to tell personal information over and over again just to get a meal.
But someone love doing this somewhere. I haven't talk to them yet.
I'll admit there are some charaters. One person I met just wouldn't do what it took to get a job. Another outright said that she was not going to work. These examples are more like 2 out of 15.
I, for one, would like to know if anyone hear knows when someone is bliffing or 'putting up a front'. This happens quite often in public assistance. I hear allot of talk about what to do, how to cheat, what we should demand and how good it is to get free food and medical... even a cash stipend after a few weks and payments for rent.
'I'm getting me a new cell phone' says one, 'I'm going club hopping' says another. 'My mom gives me some of the rent money back so I am ok' another says. What actually happens? No cell phone, no club hopping (or it happens once) and one person still has the privlege to say he gets money from his mother but later tells me that she said you better get a job or else.
Also, when your or poor, at time you do not want to let other people think your beter han them. So you say stuff that you would not do or don't say that you would do something that would be considered 'uppitty'.
I am going to use the money for school... you'll hardly hear that said but it is done. I'll use the money to get me some work clothes... another no-no. If some people have to go to a 'safe house' just to change their clothes to go to work so that they don't leave their house looking like they work, I doubt he would mention that the extra money will go to work clothes.
As far as IQ is conserned... these dumb people tend to have WAY better human communication skilss then those who have that high IQ. IQ test have been know to only focus on a few mental abilities. I am not sure why IQ's tend to be the 'end to be all' in judging why someone can't make it.
I also disagree with the idea that if you work hard enough you will make it. The truth is that there is only room for so many people to get paid 30,000 a year. There are only so many slots at harvard. not everyone gan get A's and B's in school and inFACT the grading scale is et to make a distintion between who is the smartest and who is the... dumbest. So no matter whow smart you are, if someone is smarter you get a lower grade. Trust me, if everyone in one school got A's and B's there would be an investigation of the schools teachers and test scores. someone HAS TO FAIL.
Everyone can not be a millionaire, evryone can not be midle class (hence the name middle). More people are going to be working class (Why? because most jobs are entry level and entry level jobs tend to lead nowhere within most companies). Then you have the poor; the people who did something stupid in their lives to deserve such a fate.
So if your poor, raise your hand and be proud! if you see a job that will pay you money, pass it because you don't need it. Your stupid and you must have done something wrong so don't bother to try anymore. Just stay where you are. Why give up free money??? It will last forever!
Poor people are stupid.