Cracked.com: 5 Ways The Middle Class is Taught to Despise the Poor

[oldcynic]

30. What would you do?

The kids from the next farm are playing at your house and it's lunch time. The only thing you have to feed them is one can of beans. You pour the beans into an iron skillet on the back of the stove before realizing the skillet is covered in tiny red grease ants. Hungry kids or eat ants? What do you do?
Your child is desperately ill with strep throat and in such pain she is screaming. You have just enough money to pay for one doctor's visit but that money was for groceries. Child or food? What do you do?
Wage earner passed out on the bed with what's left of his wages in his pocket. If you try to get the money he might wake up and beat the hell out of you and your kids. The only way to protect yourself is hold a gun on him. What would you do?
You live in a house that lets snow in between cracks in the walls because public assistance does not cover rent. You are blind, 3rd grade education, five kids from men who raped you. The ceiling plaster upstairs falls down every time it rains or the wind blows. Finally you give up and let it lie where it falls. What would you do?
Simple fact: the poor don't have money. If you gave them the income from social workers and other professions involved in keeping them poor, they would not be and society would actually save money...bigly. There is enough cash out there to provide a basic income for everyone if you can pry it from the cold dead hands of those who have it. Other countries are considering basic income and Sweden recently rejected a proposal because it did not provide sufficient money. Poverty is a disgrace on everyone who is not in it.