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Ah, yeah. The result of bad choices made along the way.

So, a bad choice that leaves you bankrupt and homeless means you deserve to be homeless for... well, you don't deserve any help to STOP being homeless. SO... you'll probably continue to be homeless. (just statistics there)

Too many Americans think the world owes them a living

Nope. Just a decent paying job. If you work 40+ hours a week, as hard as you can, and cannot pay your bills no matter what you do... so you take a second job, working another 20+ a week... and exhaust yourself, completely, and remain unable to get ahead. I've *been* there. Sheer luck got ME out of that hole. That, and my mom is a great lady.

The poorest Americans still have running water, sanitation, TV, telephone, electricity, etc.

Not all of them, not everwhere. Also, I am tired of everyone assuming that if you have any electronics or furniture you must be fine. I grab stuff for free from college students; it is the only reason I have a couch.

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.

You are assuming a great many things with that last line. You assume I don't know how people in other countries live. I am not saying that our poor aren't better off than they would be if they lived in... oh, Africa or the Middle East. This isn't about other places. This is about HERE.

A bad choice that leaves you homeless does not give you, or the government the moral authority to demand that I contribute to the "BAIL YOU OUT" fund.

Sheer luck got you out of the hole? Where would you have been but for the hard work? The hard work played no role in your exit from "the hole?" Buncombe. I have been there. Worked my way out of the hole and I'm better for it. Your bills do not dictate the value of your work. Your wage should dictate the level of your spending.

You grab stuff free from college students? Bwahhahahah. You are still better off than 99% of the world. The world, this country, does not owe you a specified standard of living.

I've lived in other parts of the world and I repeat, Your naivete is stunning.