Am I "declaring class warfare" by pointing out that we have poor people here in America?

Question

And suggesting that the government should take care of their basic human needs, like housing, health care, education, and a job?

Answer 1

nope, just asking for neocons to blame the poor for their predicament and ignore the problem as usual.

Answer 2

Nope. But the problem, you see, is that the definition of "the poor" never stops being expanded.

For example, if the denizens of the Democrat Party have their way the SCHIPS program created to provide healthcare for the children of the poor will be expanded to provide healthcare for families earning as much as four times the Federal poverty level - at the present time, that is approximately $82,000 per year!

Now if anyone thinks the Federal government should be providing free healthcare to any child living in a family making $82,000+ or less per year I'd like to suggest that they are part of the problem and not part of the solution.

Taking care of the poor is the easy part. But, no, we don't want to do that - what we apparently want to do is to take care of the children of voters (by and large, those are not the children of the poor, are they?) by raising taxes, building new bureaucracies to "manage" the money, and then returning 50 cents on the dollar to people who don't need government help and shouldn't have been taxed to provide that "help" in the first place.

Really, where are the spokesmen for the poor who have clean hands?!?

Answer 3

humm
lots of poor people right here on line...
sitting there pecking keys
eating hot dogs
going to the market on their bicycles..
In all seriousness, the government does help quite a few people ini many ways.
Believe it or not, in the state of New Jersey, the powers that be have for several years offered free or or nearly free health care for children and families who live beliow the poverty line.
Every year they advertise and yet, I imagine some don't get the message.
Jobs..that's another subject in its entirety,
since most of the them are going overseas.

Answer 4

Programs already exist for everything you just mentioned...so yes in a way you are...you are accusing these people of needing the government to help them when we all know all these folks need are caring communities with helpful neighbors...in States with more power over these matters than the federal government.

Answer 5

Good luck with this one!, When I ask questions like this I get clever, well thought out answers like, "They should get a job" or "They should have gotten a better education" or my favorite classic "Why should I support lazy welfare bums?". It truly surprised me that so many Americans have so little compassion and apparently don't believe that some people truly deserve and need help during hard times.

Answer 6

As yer prezidunt, me, Osama Bush Laden, we aint doing nuttin for no one but me and my cowboy oil buddies.

So yall just have anice day. That includes you righty folk too. You got ripped

hee hee

Answer 7

no to your question, yes to the sentence that follows it.

the things you mention are not rights. basic government classes will outline this for you. if you try to create a social contract based on lies, you will have a nation that is ineffective.

Answer 8

The problem is that when you say 'government' you mean all of the tax-paying citizens of the USA. A lot of people would rather keep their money.

Answer 9

There are poor people in every country, except the Vatican.

Answer 10

according to Republicans... yes...

really they declared "class warfare" very quietly years ago.. you're just pointing it out that it's going on...

I mean what else would you call mocking, belittling and constantly wanting to take away any program that could help