Why are poor people so LAZY?
544727
i think that would be, "why are lazy people poor?" which is  a no-duh!
621551
1) They're lazy\n2) They think they're owed something\n3) They grew up in a family that didn't work\n4) They think it's government money, not taxpayers money\n5) They see others not working and getting money, and figure, why should they.\n6) Too many hopes of "easy" money. Lottery / law suits...ect.
562179
ppl r lazy, it easier to moan about it rather do something about it!!!!
266104
it's not because people are lazy, maybe they are just not interested enough.  Could be they can't get away form their computers long enough.
381617
being poor and being lazy are not the same thing...\nbeing poor and having no money are not the same thing...\nyou are clearly a materialist with some major issues to resolve...\n\nfor myself -\nI have the one thing that money cannot buy:\n\npoverty!
720614
Because they are poor and they need money, but the jobs they have are really low paying jobs so its just a cycle.
1177709
I have a big problem with this.  I have always worked hard and hate that my money is going to lazy people.  I think that the only way someone should get help is if they have a disablility.  Not just people wanting to live on welfare and medicaid!!!  All those that answer this question with "I am proud to be on Medicaid"        --------------------GO GET A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
324049
because Americans are lazy and ungrateful what they have
714339
Haha no they don't, and even if you showed them proof they wouldnt believe it.  They would just blame the person and say it's their fault for being born poor, not working hard enough, whatever.\n\nEdit- Some of the answers on here are unbelievable.  "Educate yourself"  "We are as strong as men and can get a great job if need be"  Educate yourself?  Have any of these people been to the hood lately?  Or to a rural school?  Kids from there don't get coaching to take the SATs, their test scores arent as high as the kids of these parents on here...if they go to a college where SATs arent accepted then they are bringing down the quality of education...plus if you take out a loan you have to pay it back for the rest of your life at mafia interest rates...hard to deal with when the price of gas is what it is and everything going up but our salaries...People on here dont' seem to realize that the cost of welfare is MINIMAL compared to what we are paying for our MILITARY.  I wish people would WAKE UP.  If we cut that budget in half we would have money for schools to make them better, smaller classrooms, better teachers...safer playgrounds and neighborhoods...maybe we could take care of the ignorance and we wont have some baby's mamas with three kids by the time they are 21...let some of the SNOBS walk in their shoes for awhile, with little opportunity to get out of the cycle they are in...no, they would just rather complain and *****about people who dont' know any better anyway.  JERKS!!!
205084
They are just to lazy or don't care.
613534
A way for lazy people or people that refuse to help themselves....steel more money out of actual tax payers wallets just to give it to those who don't want to help themselves by working / getting educated or becoming a contributing factor to society!
707740
The common conception is that stingy people are that way because they have no money - because they have to be.  Some of the cheapest people you'll ever meet are rich folks though so in reality it can go either way.  At first it doesn't seem to make sense that a rich person would be stingy but then you have to figure there's a reason they are rich in the first place.  They probably didn't get there by being casual about money.
713108
Wishful thinking. People don't care about the poor.$$$$$$.Greed.
898239
You need to be poor!!!
1162749
Money isn't why some people are poor and have no jobs (which is still bogus, because they COULD go out and get a job).  Greed and human gluttony is the real problem.  Blaming money for starving people is like blaming your pencil for misspelling a word.
1031094
It's easy to 'assume' that everyone who receives assistance is just lazy and that no one suffers from any circumstances that requires our society to help them. It is the perfect perception and makes it a lot easier on the rest of us to feel good about ourselves.\n\nBut in fact, bad things do happen to good people sometimes and there are those who are neither lazy or trying to steal your pennies who do need some assistance.\n\nBut then again, are you your brother's keeper?\n\nProbably not.
688448
No. They are the working poor which covers a lot of things.