[PapaBear3625]

It depends on the poor. There's one class of poor, like the Vietnamese boat people when they first arrived. These are good people who are just temporarily lacking in funds due to misfortune, but who will fix that and become middle-class in a few years.

Then there's the underclass, the class of people who are content to live off charity and crime, have no interest in bettering themselves, or doing anything that look like work. They can starve for all I care, and the world would be better off.

[MV=PY]

Well put!

I’ve been broke (and how!). That’s when experience occurs.

But I’ve never been poor.