Do you think poor people in America need a helping hand or a helping foot?

i hav a very nutral answer some need a helping hand others need a helping foot lik bags said some need help and others just need to get there lazy ass up and do something i no it sounds harsh but some of the people who get food stamps and what not turn around and sell them for drugs and a vist at a whore house but then theres the good people of america the need stamp to feed there family and support them selves it all depends

This is a very classist question.

Not really. The middle class have less write offs and more actual dollar tax liability then any of the rich people. Their initial rate may be th ehighest, but by the time they write off everything they can, they pay less taxes then we do. So it is NOT classist, in that the middle class is TIRED of supporting all of the dead wood at the top and bottom of the food chain.

I have to be honest I don't really understand the question but I think that they need to be shown respect.........my father and I passed by a homeless man on the street next to our car a few days ago and my father decides to give him two gift cards to Burger King...which would provide him with a few meals well anyways when we circled around and handed it to the man.......he was so appreciative and he said thank you god bless you both......it touched me and I know that if I were in the same situation as the homeless man that I would have someone that would do the same for me (as my father did)

For most the foot would be best, but there are some, maybe more now because of the economy, that need just a hand.

"One hand loves the other" - Bjork ("Unison")

i see 'a helping hand' as guidance rather than dropping a million dollars on a poor man's lap. he needs to wake up and see the need to change for the better. i think with proper guidance, ppl can achieve so much together

Humankind - kind human

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it depends on the person i believe most need a foot

Yes it depends all are not alike they think in the same way

Bad choices have bad consequences. Haven't yet met someone poor who didn't have a choice. People fall on hard times. Resourceful people bounce. I listened to a woman last week who had 6-9 months to live and one of her biggest concerns was being able to pay off all of her debts even though she was unable to work and on an assisted living stipend.

I think of her often when I see people who are perfectly able to work, but don't because the labor is "beneath them" or when they are complaining that their free ride doesn't come with a big-enough check.

So while there's one in a million who needs a helping hand, the rest should get a swift kick.

I'm sorry God has blessed you and you are not as thankful as you should be. Not everyone is gifted with the same resources as others.

Gifted? That's a riot. It's called hard work. And please, don't be sorry. Not everyone has sacrificed as much to succeed or worked as hard as I have, either. When my friends hung out having fun or playing games in high school, I worked a job. When my friends goofed off at the mall or had parties on weeknights, I studied. When my friends scored some pot and stared at the ceiling all weekend - I took a second job to pay for higher education. When my friends dropped some E, knocked some girl up, and got married... I used protection.

And now that they wake up one day and find they aren't "blessed", they want handouts? Give me a break. You act like I don't know these people. My family is full of these people. I hang out with these people. They brag to me how much they get paid for filing their taxes. "Don't see why everyone has such a problem with this. Hahahaha."

As I said, bad choices have bad consequences. While there's one in a million that need a helping hand, the rest should get a swift kick. It's good for them.

Homeless people who only beg for money and do nothing to help themselves deserve a foot. People who are poor even though they're working their asses off(like my family), deserve a hand. There was a point where we had trouble even buying FOOD when I was little, and my parents would starve just so my brother, sister and I could eat. It got the point where my mom only weighed a hundred pounds. But she would always just smile and say, "I not hungry sweetie, you go ahead and eat." Luckily, that stage didn't last very long, but it was still really hard on my parents.

your parents are like my parents. good peoples. with people like that you won't stay poor long. mainly because they fight to work and sacrifice for people other than themselves. You're parents are awesome.

I know they are. They do a lot for me, and I love 'em to pieces. It's almost disturbing how well we get along.

help others. it may be slightly hippie, but thats all that must be said.

Not everyone wants to be employed.

If they are not working they should be. Most don't work because our government pays them more not to work.

It would be the real way a Christian acts.

Wel, can I hold their hand while kicking them in their behinds to get them motivated to get off the public dole?

I support the theory of a helping hand, but NOT a lifetime of sloth on the public dole.

i think people need to get off there ass and work for them selfs

Me too. Help them get on their feet, not pay for them to live forever.

i dont think we should help them intel they tried

Well, some areas of the country, specifically in the back of the mountains in West Virginia and Kentucky, there is no work, there is only welfare, so someone would have to create retail and industrial type places in order to have jobs FOR the people. Diane Sawyer has done several specials on that area, there just isn't any work, and very, very few ways out of there.

hum i did not know that ok

i do not believe in any form of welfare, I think churches and other agencies should do the charity stuff from pirivate donations only. BUT since we have them used to the government boob so to speak, we have to create a way to weant them off.

why dont u belive in welfare ?

Most need some help. Some need a kick in the ass.

I believe it depends on why they're poor. Some of us have genuine illnesses. Others are just lazy.

How old are you?
60% of the population has been getting more poor for the last 35 years.

Because the upper class rigged it that way so they can make lot more
money themselves.
They did it because they are genuinely ill in the head, sick with greed, are raised to be callous, and think of the working class as expendable servants not as the Anerican public.
They the rich are the Americans, were nothing.

The middle class is being strangled to death by the poor and the rich. Middle class folks have no power and no money, we work, we pay taxes, we buy little houses and hope we can save some for the future, DO NOT BLAME the welfare deadbeat crisis on the middle class greed, we don't have much to be greedy over, blame the fat rich pigs that run our government.

Blueskies didn't blame it on the middle class. Comprehension skills need some work.

Okay, I see the error I made, Apologies. I am working and reading at the same time.

Apology accepted. I've been there and done that myself. Have a great day!

Thanks and you as well

No problem. I can use critiques anyway. I have been trying to work it all out but its a complex story and I'm not sure I have it right myself.
more than anybody else, I have to lay most responsibility on the large Banks.

i want money

depends on why they became poor, if it isnt or is their fault...

But in some cases where the benevulent system is abused , a foot would serve the purpose to get the lazy asses up and find a job.