[from occupied ga]

Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010, but for many low-income families with work-related and medical expenses, they are considered too 'rich' to qualify," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty

There is so much fundamentally wrong with this I hardly know where to begin. Picking a random part "University of Michigan professor" OK what you have here is a taxpayer funded bureaucrat whose quantity of swill is determined by how much noise he makes. After all even though a public university trough is pretty big, you have an awful lot of hogs (academics) rooting, grunting and shoving to get as much as they can of it. SO he has every incentive to FIND non-existant problems in his field, and then to tout them as loudly as he can.

Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010

Actually by taking money away from the private sector and hence away from business and capital formation these programs INCREASED poverty by reducing job availability. The public policy moron assumes that those out of work are incapable of shifting from one form of employment to another and their only recourse is to reach into the pockets of their hardworking fellow citizens. To the extent that the indolent indigent have ABSOLUTELY NO MOTIVE TO LOOK FOR WORK as long as the so-called "safety nets" are funneling money their way he is correct. Why work when you can get paid to do nothing?

low-income families

A couple of things here first who decides what is "low income?" My income is less than the top 1% does that make me low income? How many of these "low income" families have

• One or more dogs or cats
• a computer
• one or more flat screen TVs
• smoke or drink "adult beverages"
• have large litters of children
• have a car less than 10 years old
• Have a fancy cell phone
• Etc.

Finally what gives someone the moral imperative to say OK my life choices were not as good as yours, so I make considerably less money than you, but I'm entitled to exactly the same level of material things as you, so I'm going to use the police power of government to rob you and pay me? Not sure how anyone justifies this.

who specializes in poverty

This is worth about 500 words alone, but what's the point? It's for the children (Do I really need to add the sarcasm tag?)

[FreedomPoster]

Nicely done, spot on.

[LostInBayport]

my life choices were not as good as yours, so I make considerably less money than you, but I'm entitled to exactly the same level of material things as you, so I'm going to use the police power of government to rob you and pay me

How very, very well said! That is the attitude of far too many in this country, and they have an advocate at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.