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No one hates the American poor more than the American poor. I've said it before, and I expect I will have to repeat it. I did my undergrad in Northeastern Ohio, not too far from Cleveland, In what is a pretty seriously economically depressed area aside from the University in the centre of town. The attitude that I saw there among low and middle class people towards poor people was astounding to me. "I'm in this welfare line because I lost my job in the recession, and my wife is too sick to work. I'm in a rough spot, but I'll get out. But that guy behind me? He needs to stop sucking on the government tit so hard - I see him here every week! Why doesn't he just work harder?"