Because so many of them are poor because of their own choices.
Well over 90% of calls for service to people’s residences will be in the poor sections of town. Some of that is undoubtedly because most criminals and drug addicts tend to be poor due to their lifestyle choices and thus get stuck in the poor parts of town.
You’ll note that I had nothing but positive to say about the hispanic poor. You can say what you want either way about illegal immigration but the one truism that seems to prevalent amongst the families that come here is that they do work and work hard and keep a clean house and don’t fritter away their money on stupid things like cigarettes and lottery tickets. It called making good choices with your money. The one slight caveat is that if you have a single hispanic male illegal immigrant it changes a bit as they tend to blow their money on beer, Sunday is often the only day off the hispanic farm workers get around here and it turns into drunk fest in the hispanic parts of town. But when its a whole family its different.
But I’m judgemental when I see 3/4’s of the people in the foodbank line smoking because if they weren’t smokers they may well not need food bank help.
I’m judgemental because I did shop with a cop one year. This is a program meant to help provide a good Christmas to children from poor families. This was roughly 2007 or so and the X-Box 360 and Playstation 3 were both brand new systems then. Every kid got assigned to a cop and who then helped them go buy a present for up to $50. Easily 80% of the kids from these POOR families bought games for these two brand new gaming systems and most of the kids were picking adult only games like Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row. Top of the line gaming systems yet they are poor. Its about choices.
I was absolutely disgusted and have never done it again though one little girl did impress me. She was hispanic, note what I said about hispanic families, and instead of spending all $50 on herself she got dolls and and other cheaper toys for herself and her three siblings. She only had $5 left and wanted to get some cheap items for her parents but didn’t have enough, several of us chipped in money for her to get it because we were so impressed by her vs how disgusted we were about the others. One of the white trash moms saw us doing it though and got angry that her child, who had bought Saints Row for the 360, wasn’t getting more money to buy another game.
Its about choices. Make good ones like many of the hispanic families do and spend your money right and try to better yourselves and I’ll have sympathy and help you out. Spend your money on cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc and you deserve to wallow in your poverty and you don’t deserve financial help.
