Hey look, according to a new poll 47 percent of us aren't monsters.
In 1995, in the midst of a raging political debate about welfare and poverty, less than a third of poll respondents said people were in poverty because of issues beyond their control. At that time, a majority said that poverty was caused by "people not doing enough." Now, nearly half of respondents, 47 percent, attribute poverty to factors other than individual initiative. “In hard economic times, people become more sympathetic to the poor,” says Martin Gilens, Ph.D., a political scientist at Princeton University.
Go figure. It turns out about half us recognize that there are things that can make you poor—from simple lack of opportunity to medical crises to local economic conditions to a not-very-long string of bad luck—that do not stem from a simple case of insufficient bootstrap-pulling.
right wing props up that farce that it's your fault if you're poor because it misdirects you from recognizing that it's their opposition to and deliberate blockades that create this not so phenomenal scenario it also shows us that not much has changed in that area if only half are willing to acknowledge that it's not because of all the demeaning things republicans say but more so the debilitating things they place on the road every few feet that creates the class they call the 47%, actually more than that 51.1 percent that makes a majority and 2012 Romney and the boyz 47.2 percent how poetic is that?
