This is one of the most ignorant threads of all time. I work in the Salvation Army. I help people out every day. I help people pay bills even though they have a degree in college. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. A loss of job due to injury can make one homeless regardless of their education or how hard they work. All of the people that apply for assistance are decent hard-working people. They didn't ask to be homeless or struggling, and they certainly aren't lazy. Those who are on disablilty usually do have jobs, but those jobs don't pay much. The disability payments only add up to 20% of the median household income. They can't even pay rent on disability, so of course they get jobs whenever they can. And I do government statistics so I can tell you that this goes for most people who are underprivelidged, 99% of them try damn hard.
Who's the whiner, you are. Nobody is forcing you to have any compassion, no we can't do that, but in the great state of earth, we help each other out in times of need. Deal with it or move to some other planet. Pity the poor soul who can't live an honorable life because they buy into the STEREOTYPE that all poor people deserve their place in our economy.
And no, our system will not help out those tiny number of lazy people, we have tons of processes in place to weed out the lazy ones who won't even try to care for themselves.
