Pointer, Kitty, jbdfan, thank you for the other side of the story from work and personal experience. So many people lump the poor into one category--lazy and could lift themselves up if they just worked hard.
I would like to see some facts/statistics as to how many poor are lazy and how the poverty programs have kept them in poverty. I saw very little of that in the work we did in our church with the poor in Muskegon, MI. There were some trying to game the system, but nowhere near the majority that others are stating.
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