Are you poor because of you, or your government?
477921
Maybe you should take a simple Sociology class before you make assumptions or generalizations about ALL poor Americans. Nickel and Dimed is a good book....
1067316
You believe that you, the individual, are responsible for your own actions and opportunities.  You don't require the government to help you and you simply prefer that it not restrict you in your efforts to succeed in life.
279287
This question has been asked before and the answer is still the same.\nWho is gonna objectively say that a government is too corrupt?  Or not enough?  Are tax incentives corrupt?  How about bailouts?  Who is tracking the money that DOESN'T get reported?\nPlease be specific.  Please be VERY specific.
153460
No. The poor are tax payers too.  As a matter of fact, since they save less than others almost 100% of their money is taxed.\n\nAs a tax payer if they need that money to help feed their children and get proper medical care, I don't have a problem at all.\n\nI see lazy people get money from the government all the time.  One person can get a goverment grant for $20,000 to go to college.  They drop out and don't get a degree, but you don't see people lining up saying how college students are abusing our tax money to go to school. \n\nBusinesses get government grants to use for their own personal use. Some of the studies that are supported by the government are an obviious waste of money and will not benefit anyone except the people whose received the grant.  \n\nWhy are we so comfortable with our money freely given to the rich, but prejudice against the poor?\n\nWhat makes this country great is how we treat our empoverished, disabled, elderly, and incarcerated.  \n\nAnd we have lots of room for improvement across the board.
829606
Line item veto! First of all you who are for the government helping you pay for health care, giving you minimum wage increases, dumping more in social programs? Who is going to pay for it? Hell lets just steal it from the rich and call it a tax! I want my share from those rich bastards! Which what is considered rich? Beings the upper 10% of wage earners pay 60% of the taxes. Why don't you use one of them government handouts called pell grants and student loans, and get yourself and education, then a job, and then pay higher taxes because you have lived right?
336266
I believe that the government is only a reflection of the people. if you think the government is bad, its because the people make bad choices. \nif you're in favor of what their doing people always think if them as good, if not, then they are bad. it now all boils down whether you are happy with what they are doing.
485795
Sorry for your problems, but that's what you get for expecting anything from socialist governments, and why it is better to provide for yourself rather than expecting it to be provided for you.\n\nBecause the government that has the power to provide you with all that you want, has the power to take all that you have.
381617
being poor and being lazy are not the same thing...\nbeing poor and having no money are not the same thing...\nyou are clearly a materialist with some major issues to resolve...\n\nfor myself -\nI have the one thing that money cannot buy:\n\npoverty!
705648
it shows you are thinking about a major issue. Who will pay to make their country into a good economy? I the average tax payer can't afford what is allready coming out of my check and if we took on your project they would have to increase my taxes.
1066021
Why?...there are American people out here that are very poor and sick and cannot work...temporarly,..i was one, I had a car accident and was unable to work for a while...I've been paying taxes for years and sometimes  things just happens..i had to go on welfare to feed my daughter..I am not a shame I've work plenty years to get back some of my tax money. I bet you have a nice job..Not everybody is lucky like you...
1162749
Money isn't why some people are poor and have no jobs (which is still bogus, because they COULD go out and get a job).  Greed and human gluttony is the real problem.  Blaming money for starving people is like blaming your pencil for misspelling a word.
328424
You know, the government doesn't owe everyone a standard of living or any sort of help.  I am sure that help is available if you apply for it, but your sense of entitlement is just sort of "out there", you know?  No one is going to know the situation, go through the proper channels.
69890
The government provides protection and services (think highways, police, etc) that contribute to our ability to earn money. It can generally be assumed that people earning money in this country are benefitting from these services, and thus taxes are levied upon them.
391909
The reason for poverty in America is the politics's of greed, or Repuglicans in general. I have mine and I want to make more therefore I do not want to pay taxes and to hell with anybody else. Being poor is no more a choice then homosexuality. It is thrust on 10% of the population by another 10% of the population the very rich. I wonder why of for what reason that a person needs every cent of their billion dollars and there are many billionaires here. There is also a thing with corporate greed. Move the good paying jobs with health benefits overseas to a place where people work for pennies. But do you see the price come down on anything because of it. The answer is a big NO. Socialized medicine is long overdue here it is needed by all, not just an elite few. Every one in the United States should have a birthright to three things food, shelter and health care.
560957
Nope. The rich and poor countries are intertwined whether they like it or not. The rich need the poor to exploit and the poor need the rich in order to be exploited. There would not be one without the other.
863855
I am poor. I am below poverty level, which is not very pleasant. Do I feel poor? No. I have 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and the internet, and a car,and music. My soul is happy. Money doesn't really mean much. All the important things in life don't have anything to do with money...so I guess I was wrong. I am very rich.
937562
I live in the USA and struggle everyday. Living paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes not eating so the rest of my family can. I have to roll coins to pay for a few gallons of gas in my van so I can get to work to make more small pocket change. Then the govn't takes so much tax out of my check it leaves me barely enought to pay the bills. Then the mailing system (which is operatted by the govn't) is slow and delivers my payments past the due date, then a late fee is applyed to my account. Then I apply for government help and they say I make too much money to get assistance. But I see others around town riding in high priced cars, going to pickup a monthly government check. Those pple live off the taxes that are taken from my check to sit at home jobless and feed their 9 kids without a father. Then I see them pull into the casino and blow their whole Social Security check, which that tax money also gets taken out of my paycheck. I go to the doctor and pay a $25 co-pay just to see the doctor, then pay the remaining balance that my crappy insurance doesn't pick-up (which also gets deducted from my paycheck) . I have to pay another co-pay for any perscriptions that the doc. perscribes. At the same time I see someone with name brand shoes and clothes on tell the nurse that they are on MEDICAID (operated by tax money the govn't takes from my paycheck) Therefore, they pay nothing! It's all free for them.They might have to pay a small $5 fee for medicine. That the rest of their bills is picked up by the government (the taxes taken from my paycheck). It sicken me to see that I am barely able to hang on, but other people take advantage of the government assistance by continuing to be lazy and unresponsible.  Trust me...this is no picnic. Unless your famous, inharitted money, workaholic, or supported by the government....you are living paycheck to paycheck and nothing more.