why do people does not have sympathy for poor.why they crush them under thier feet?
489123
The poor need compassion when they're part of the [social] world, not after they leave it behind them, because by then it may be too late.\n\nTreat people well before they feel rejected, and help them out of rejection, but don't give handouts which only justify their position as poor. Help them be truly wealthy by improving their feeling of their benefit to others, not others benefit to them.
502567
I would support anyone who helps out this cause and have myself on occasion, however the simple fact remains that they are poor because we are rich. There isnt, as many like to say, enough to go around, not if we want to maintain our current standard of living.
1163309
LoL because that the type of people they are,there no better then the rich taking from the poor.They want people for all walks of life to respect them, but they don't give any respect back,Instead of giving respect they criticize other peoples religion and judge others like they are god.\n\nChristians are losing the battle and they will soon lose the war.
938647
Your tirade has some merit my friend. I don't think necessarily that people want our 'pity', but I do believe we have engaged and supported a society of people who have become lazy and unwilling to push it to the limit to ensure they are working, able to support their families and care for their young.  I teach 8th graders and I can't believe that I see in them the same attitudes you are speaking of.  They are getting this 'spoon feed me attitude' from their parents.  I have watched as a young man of 31 I know - who has been drugging for 8 years, go through one marriage, a relationship of 5 years and now is hooked up with a 2 time looser of a mother of two kids she does't even raise(fathers in jail) and has her pregnant with his child (maybe), It's the children I feel sorry for because they are probably going to be the ADHD/Bipolars in my class in the next 5-10 years.  Yes, personal responsibility and accountability has much to be counted in these cases.  All we can do is pray for them and hope that education and exposure to programs to help raise the level of self-esteem will help the next generation of people.
1116648
You've got some really great answers on here. I'm an especially big fan of "it's there own fault they are poor." Spelling on that would be "their" by the way. I just love these generalized comments. They don't take into consideration people who lost jobs, people who were abandoned at birth and never received a proper education but were continuously passed through our foster care system or elderly folks who never had a chance to save because their money went to their families and now they can't survive on a Social Security check. Nice empathy there.
1018971
The poor don't know what they are missing and the rich run out of things to do they get bored, lonely and unhappy.\n\n\nMyself....give me money and I will show you how freakin happy I can be!
1186640
Some people are just like that. Its life. Not everyone is going to have a positive  mind. Not every ones going to care about others. Those people are the most unhappy. Those who treat well will ve treated well in return . Those who instigate and disrespectful would be treated exactly like that, or worse. Its called karma.
830311
You don't want to admit how much money you have if the people around you have less. You don't want to brag or make them feel bad. I think that's why rich people keep what they make to themselves.
1096191
Liberals argue with their feelings and tend to ignore facts.\n\nExample:  You don't want poor people to go hungry do you? \n\nThey completely ignore the fact that most poor people are poor because of their own bad decisions (drugs, no education/vocational training, having kids out of wedlock, etc) and that supporting these people will only encourage them to continue to make bad decisions.
103428
That's a very big question...\nHomeless people tend to be dirty.  They often carry diseases.  Sometimes they beg and can keep legitimate customers from going into a neighborhood business.  They rely on governmental help.
604710
Well Chuck, I think its because of the way they have been bought up. Their social and economic circumstances...thier relationship and family environment can affect they way they act.\n\nYou have to feel sorry for these people. They are the loosers.\n\nHold your head up high and be happy that you are a well adjusted and well balanced person.
1183637
Because some have values or morals. And others do not. True even if some hate to hear it.\n\nSome like the people so much-they drop their values or morals to justify their reasons. Doesn't change it.\n\nSome have personal gain. Or selfish reasons
22047
Because for some people, the only way they can bring themselves up is to bring someone else down, or at least try to.  I pity people like that.
416759
It becomes an issue of public priority. There is an underlying American opinion that your supposed to be able to make it on your own if you work hard enough (even though this is some times a very silly theory in praxis). So theres a general discontent for things which some people see as freerider type things. You could argue there is probably a lack of empathy as many people favor as little government as possible by cutting social safety net programs for the poor. When people keep blaming the victim, these type of injustices occur. Not to mention there are quite a few government expenses that are on the board right now, so people who see us in a defecit think, well now certainly isnt the time to help these people out. It is certainly frusterating and sad but its a part of the american psyche and probably wont change any time soon.
1031036
I bet if you took a couple of starving ppl and sat them on the greedy person's doorstep, a lot of the greedy ones would shape up in a hurry. (At least temporarily.) They can get away with it now because the starving ones are total strangers and probably live far away. I guess they figure out of sight, out of mind. And the rich have NO freakin clue what it's like to be poor.
226399
People's personal blights, ie poverty or education, or not the responsibility of goverment. It is that person's choice where they are in life. In modern american society it seems that everyone wants to blame someone for the way they ended up, or make an excuse for why someone else is doing better than them. \n\nIt is a fact that some people will do nothing more than what is ABSOLUTELY nessacary for survival on that particular day. Some people will do more, and some will do everything they can to get better off than others. \n\nTo directly answer the poverty % quest... It all comes down to what the person doing the survey wants the number to be. A person living in per-say Montana with a small farm grwing there own food not really having a need for money is in poverty. But if you ask them they may say they are doing fine as all of their needs are met. A multi-millionaire that has no job (doesn't need it duh) and has no investment income (poor economic move) is considered in poverty by IRS standards. So it all comes down to what poverty number do you want to have?\n\nOn a side note, I fix up houses as a business. With the way the tax code is structured I can write off almost all of my income to business expenses. IRS paper work I made $9300 last year for a family of 3 (sole income earner). My actually net from the business for the year was $102,000+(not rubbing it in). I have been contacted multi times for Gov't assistance because we are POOR. LOL
134525
The poor in this country live quite well. While there is still a lot to be done to help these individuals, they themselves should be doing a lot more. Being poor, in my opinion, is a choice in most cases. Not so in most of the world, where conditions force billions of people to live many times below the American Average poor person. Work and resources are not available even to those that work very hard. In America, however, there is so much opportunity that to be poor is very hard for me to understand.