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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Has the Republican Party seen this documentary? If not, they should.[/quote]

They will only focus on how she had 3 kids before making a decent living, how she has tattoos, how she got her hair done for $87 dollars when she couldn't afford medicine, why did she have a puppy and cats when she was living paycheck to paycheck, etc. People see what they want to see in these things.[/quote]

All excellent points.  Why does she have animals to feed if she is worried about feeding her kids?  Why have more responsibility & stress in her life by having pets, seems she has enough to deal with?[/quote]

So the recommendation would be what, then? Surrender the animals to a shelter? Head over to the pet board and open any thread where someone expresses a desire to get rid of their pet for any reason - medical reasons in their kids, animal adapting poorly to children or changed living situation, you name it - and see the degree to which people will scream about how irresponsible it is to that animal and why aren't they thinking about the commitment they made.

Here's the thing. Poor people are people too. They like pets and having nice haircuts. They don't always make good decisions, and they are not obligated to make better decisions than you are based on income.

It's like a poor person must be above reproach on every level before they are deserving of sympathy, before they are allowed to think and feel and want the same things that people who are not poor want.[/quote]
The bottom line is that many people want to be able say that poor  people are poor solely because of bad decisions on their part. That means they have not chance of them being the poor person. 'That will never be me, I would never do 'that', which is why they are in that situation'. It's a form of sick  deluded self-reservation'.[/quote]

Let me try that again:

The bottom line is that many people want to be able say that poor  people are poor solely because of bad decisions on the part of the impoverished person. This  means they have no  chance of becoming  the poor person. 'That will never be me, I would never do 'that', which is why they are in that situation'. It's a form of sick and deluded self-preservation'.[/quote]Agree. I believe that we get into victim-blaming because we don't want to face how easy it is for bad things to happen to us so we fool ourselves into believing that we would be too smart for this to happen to us. [/quote]

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