Damn Liberals... (formerly Best Games of All Time moved)

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I could have posted for you since I knew exactly what you were going to say. So poor people are all just a bunch of lazy, stupid people that should be punished for not being rich. That's terrific logic. If you honestly think that it's a simple matter of choosing the right job or education then you are extremely naive. There are many different factors that can make a person poor. I'm not in the lower class, but I know many people that were forces into the lower class because of poor ecomic conditions or the lack of demand for a certain profession. There's this one janitor that cleans at my work and I frequenty have conversations with him whenever he's around. He has a masters in civil engineering but soon after he got out of college the demand for civil engineers dimished so greatly that he was forced to get a job as a janitor in order to survive and feed his kid. There are million of people out there in similar situations, so don't give me that bullshit about people being too stupid or lazy to get rich.

I'm sure that there are plenty of poor people out there that are lazy or whatever, but that's not the case with everyone and they should not be punished for it. Despite what you may think, the lower class has it the worse and the upper class has it the best. I'm a middle class citizen and I'm stuck in the middle by having to pay a lot of taxes like the upper class but not getting the same benefits of the lower class (I'm too rich to get free healthcare but too poor to buy it), and I agree that that has to change. But taxing the absolute lower class even more is not going to fix that problem.