[hybrid]

Go out and invent something useful, and you too can live the high life.

In other words, if you are poor it is your own damn fault? Hmmm... know many poor people?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

In other words, if you are poor it is your own damn fault?

You bet it is!

[Conservative Goddess]

"In other words, if you are poor it is your own damn fault?"

Ah, yeah. The result of bad choices made along the way. Too many Americans think the world owes them a living. It doesn't. The poorest Americans still have running water, sanitation, TV, telephone, electricity, etc. You don't know what poverty is. I suggest that you go to a third world country...pop in on the "rich" there....then come back to the US, crying in your beer about "the poor." Your naivete is stunning.