timsatt - take a deep breath.
No one on this site has said "give poor people more", but you keep yelling against it.
No one on this site has said "they are entitled to it", but you keep yelling they aren't.
No one on this site has said "raise taxes", but you keep yelling we shouldn't.
What everyone is trying to tell you in different ways, but you are not getting, is that you are wrong in saying being poor is a choice and people have it coming, so why should we help them.
Your parents worked hard and put you on a great path. This is OUTSTANDING. You obviously attribute a lot of credit to them for that.
I salute your parents and I think you are probably a good person with good intentions in life, in part because of their influence.
The question you need to ask, before you start yelling about liberals, is if you would be the same person you are today -- drug free / pre-marital sex free / hard working / volunteering your time to make life better for others -- would you really be the same?
The answer is no. You keep giving your parents the credit, so you have to admit they had a hand in it.
Now that you admit, where you end up has a lot to do with where you start (and there are exceptions, but the rule is the apple doesn't fall far from the tree economically or morally), look at a child growing up in poverty, bad schools, smoking, sex, drugs and look at the influences they have.
It should make it a little bit harder to say "well they chose it". If they "chose", they obviously were influenced to choose it.
You are making both liberals & conservatives mad when you rant and rave about poor people.
How to fix it? We all differ -- this is where liberals / conservatives / socialists really start to go their separate ways. Empathy and understanding, this appears to be where the rest of the site is uniting against you.
If you want to start a political debate, talk about welfare programs / school vouchers / universal head-start programs / etc., leave the "poor people bring it on themselves" out of it and you might get some intelligent discussion.
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