I appreciate the point you are trying to make and yes, many/ most Americans do not have a clue...

But, still, I cringe at that term. It just seems very disrespectful.

no one is offended....how they live is the shame, not a word...I have utmost respect and love for these folks

One thing in “letters and Dem work” and another in person.

I used to work with the developmentally disabled. What would you call them? You know, in letters and stuff...

I cringe when people say/write "blacks" and "gays" and "the homeless" and such. I cringed at "poors" just the same.

Adding the word people/person humanizes so much more, imo.

Grew up poor, my single mom raising us 3 kids. The middle class gets all the attention, the poor, never ending shutdown is perfect.

or anybody for that matter. WTF is wrong with our country when people with steady employment can't miss a paycheck? WTF is wrong with our country when ANYBODY can't cope with a $400 emergency?

Richest country in the history of the world and the best we can do is GoFundMe? And meantime the "poors" get NO consideration whatsoever. What.The.FUCK?

I'll say this: as beyond-belief horrific as rump is, he certainly is exposing the failings and fault lines of our greatest-evah country.

They know when this is over they will still have a job. I hired in at a job in 1978 in 1979 I was laid off for 5 years. Had to work for minimum wage which st that time was next to nothing and lost everything I had.

when even low-skill people could live on full-time pay have children who are poor adults needing their assistance in these times.

As for knowing about being poor, I was just remembering last night how as a child I used to curl up fully clothed and pull the covers tight over my head, tucking in all edges, so that my breath could help keep me warm all night. It was normal, as was hunger, though I don't really remember suffering. Children have acceptance of such things as long as they're not actually in pain. I was mostly treated kindly. so I was generally happy. For my mentally ill mom trying to take care of me, not so easy of course.

Work requirements, pay stub requirements, bank statement requirements, other paperwork requirements, in person interview requirements—
All of these are INTENTIONALLY created by conservatives and their billionaire donors to make it hard for poor people to qualify.

Rightwing billionaires know that if they add those rules, fewer people use food stamps. The conservatives don’t care that the people dropping off the programs are the ones who can’t figure out the paperwork, or the ones who can’t get to an interview, and without family those poor people will get sick and die. Rightwing billionaires and their employees (like Seema Verma at Medicare/Medicaid) WANT to push poor people off the rolls.

It’s sick.

Here’s some discussion.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/09/10/more-signs-trumps-medicaid-work-rules-add-to-costs-and-bureaucracy/amp

And here’s Koch ally and granny-starver Seema Verma. For shame. Her parents should hang their heads for the grinding poverty their daughter brings. All to enrich billionaires.
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x474/?fit=scale

“My poors?” They’re not your pets. I work for a bankruptcy attorney, and one thing I most appreciate about my boss is the respect he has for our clients. So I know the people you’re talking about, but I sure like to honor them as individuals and recognize their contributions to our society. They’re not “my” anything, except for “my clients” who deserve every ounce of dignity in this world.

Where no one suffers this way, without a lunatic and fascists in charge. Many of the people involved are struggling suffering, they are going to food banks and can’t afford basic necessities. The longer it goes on the worse it will be for the economy.