Quote:come on, cell phones, home phone lines, cash assistance, housing assistance, health care subsidies, food stamps, and unemployment benefits all make it very comfortable to be complacent at the bottom. It's the ones that TRY and work out of poverty that get punished.

 

Having the ability to make a phone call is what you call comfort?

 

Cash assistance doesn't come from the government on some unlimited basis, and unemployment benefits require prior employment, not to mention they aren't unlimited.

 

It's an ongoing problem that there's a perception that poor people have it too easy. Unless your idea is we should be grinding them and their children up to make soylent green then they definitely don't have it good or easy.

 

Everything about society is designed to punish and humiliate people for being poor (remember Rick Scott's welfare drug testing?), while what is needed is a level of respect for every person and a system that truly does try to give people a chance at a leg up.

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