It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
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I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!
We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
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