Republicans pick another winner: telling voters to eff off.

[KenMcCoy]

plenty of "working poor" (and most of the able-bodied poor on public assistance are working and are white) are working their asses off in 2,3 jobs, 7 days /week, very often in dead-end, no-future jobs.

why would you stay in a dead end job? are the "working poor" required to stay there? did they give their boss their ID/Passport?

learn new skills, upgrade themselves, have some time for personal life, when?

If you're serious about bettering yourself, personal life comes last. Hungry people in my profession put in 80+ hours a week to get that Promo/$$

[RandomGuy]

Oligarchy, you forgot to say oligarchy

Sure. Oligarchy is pretty much an apt description, useful idiot.

While I am at it I will make fun of your "walkaway thread".

[RandomGuy]

I read the article. I agree with a lot of the conservative viewpoints. I've been managing/leading people for more than 25 years now. From a quick lube station to get me through college to large corporate finance departments. In all of that time, the employees that made it clear that they were interested in advancement (more $$) were given opportunities. I have several employees (of multiple nationalities, cultural backgrounds, and genders) that only have high school educations and have worked their way from hourly positions to salaries in the 50K - 80K range by being dependable, smart, and open to additional responsibilities. I've also seen numerous people cycle through jobs because they weren't interested in learning, weren't dependable, and didn't want to do anything else but clock in at 8 am, do the minimum needed to maintain employment, and clock out at 5pm.

Stop playing the victim RG...you CAN be someone if you apply yourself

Sure. Stupid, lazy people exist, and some of them are poor.

Now, can we help all people who are poor, rather than demonizing every poor person as being not worth helping?