Is talk of the poor no longer a topic in polite society?

[rbrnmw]

I'm serious it seems to piss everyone off when the subject is broached

[cali]

1. Barbara Lee just brought it up in her speech

[rbrnmw]

2. I was speaking generally

[Peregrine Took]

3. Its not something the Dems want to discuss anymore. Also term "working class"

- I much prefer it to "middle class."

[matt819]

4. Go over to the NY Times

There's an article today about school lunches. In one sense it does talk about the poor, but if you really want to see talk about the poor, take the look at the comments; mine was not published, probably because of my reference to the Republican FYIGM attitude - Fuck You I Got Mine. I even put asterisks for the -uck.

Well, they certainly are talking about the poor. As in the poor could go fuck themselves. The poor are stupid and irresponsible, and what parent doesn't make a wholesome lunch for his kid? And why are the poor having all those children they can't take care of. As in, why is there any lunch at school, subsidized or not. School should be about math and science. Period. And why are poor people so fat, if they're so poor. So, "we" do talk about the poor, how we just want them to disappear.

By the way, one statistic that wasn't hard to look up. In 2010 there were 74 million children under the age of 17 in the US (seems low, but that's the stat I found). Of those 16 million are hungry and food insecure, i.e., they don't know where and when their next meal is coming. That stat is from Feeding America.

That is an awful reality, that 20% of America's children go to bed hungry. What is despicable is that fully half of the US population doesn't give a damn.

[ananda]

5. It should be the talk of every decent society.

Hang politeness.

[leveymg]

6. Was it ever, beyond, "Sire, the peasants are revolting"?

[leftstreet]

7. How are you defining 'the poor?'

[rbrnmw]

9. I am talking about........

The Poor who have exhausted their unemployment, have used their TANF months, and have nowhere to turn. When you mention it, people get mad. They call them lazy trash It's wrong and I am bound and determined to stop it or die trying.

[freshwest]

8. My experience is weird. I hear talk about the poor everyday. In fact, among the people I know, the

Definition of being poor has expanded greatly and does not include the middle class. But the middle class was always an amorphous creation that covered many ranges of income and conditions.