Not All Poor People Need Our Help

Why is it that we are supposed to feel sympathetic and feel sorry for poor folk? In America, a conundrum exists because integrating the desire of liberals to hold the poor close to their bosom while wiping the sweat from their brow with the Darwinist desire of conservatives to throw all weaker and feebler segments of our population overboard doesn’t leave much room for a middle-ground.

The point which both political parties miss is that poor people are not a homogeneous group. They don’t all require coddling, nor do they all deserve a kick in the backside.  People are poor for different reasons, and until we begin to parse the wheat from the chaff, we’ll never be able to devise a comprehensive approach to poverty.

Categorizing the nation’s poor based upon the circumstances which landed them in poverty is a much better approach for alleviating poverty than are the rudimentary approaches espoused by liberals and conservatives.

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