I came across a conversation some people were having about a news article that explained how the poor have to pay more than many middle-class people for the same services (such as how not owning a car can disrupt one's life). One person made a typical American-right-wing comment about how the poor should stop smoking, look harder for jobs and take any job, cook for themselves and cancel television subscriptions (all good advice, but not really an infallible solution to a global or national problem of poverty). These hilarious paragraphs were the response.

'The poor are there because many of them make such bad choices. All those middle class poor overextending themselves on their mortgages and all those multi-millionaure poor overextending themselves on credit default swaps just show that bad decision making is an exclusive trait of the poor and that they can never have wealth until they learn to stop making bad decisions.'

'That's right. If they were responsible people, educated themselves, went to business school, and blew a $12,000,000,000,000 hole in the world economy, then the government could help them out. As it is, though, these leeches are steaing our money for what? To feed their children?'

' If you cannot afford a computer and internet, then you're 'paying' for a similar thing with commute time, as you go to the library to use their computers. Funny how the "time is money" phrase kind of gets ignored by many when applied to the poor.'