Bloodless Coup

What the Sanctimonious Are Like

Well, with a title like "What the Poor Are Like," do you expect nice things? Like chocolate: sweet and delicious. Or maybe, like a puppy: loving and full of energy. No? How about these qualities that are designed to educate charity workers so they can "best help poor people" after hurricane Katrina.

The poor are bad drivers and scofflaws.

"One such detail was that most of the adults who passed through the shelter had, on the average, about 25 outstanding traffic warrants."

The poor have many aliases so they can maximize their ability to defraud the government.

"Another such detail was that many of our clients used more than one name. Why? There were many reasons. But a big one was that they could get more than one welfare check that way."

They are litterbugs, vandals and looters!

"Another detail was that they littered tremendously. Also, the level of vandalism was high...This ranged from tearing down shower curtains and rods to deliberate flooding."

The poor don't like to work

"Another detail was that most of them did not want to work. But we insisted."

The poor don't interact enough with their children.

"They did not talk, talk, talk to their children like a middle-class mother might."

Poor children are better off away from their mothers.

"I came to the reluctant conclusion that these children would have been somewhat better off in a good day care center during the day, getting more stimulation and attention, and getting better prepared to learn in school, than at home all day with their mothers. "

Poor people are liars and cheaters.

"Another detail was that our clients conned, decieved and lied as a matter of course."

Poor people are crackheads.

"That was when they let me know that many of our families were using cocaine. Although they had not caught them in the act, they knew the signs."

Poor people should never be given much money because they can't be trusted to spend it wisely.

"What this meant was that many of our clients used the money we saved them, by giving them free housing and food, to buy cocaine rather than the other things their families so desperately needed. "

Poor people are mostly black, and if white, are not from religions which "stick together."

"there were certain groups of people that we never saw among the homeless. Among these were any Asians, Mormons or Seventh-Day Adventists. And only one Jew"

Poor women don't know how to pick men.

"for the women, being homeless had a lot to do with the kind of man in their lives"

Poor women are aborting sluts who eschew marriage.

"Most of the women began to have sex at an early age. Despite some abortions, most had 2 or 3 children by age 18. Most were never married."

Poor men are lazy fathers who do not work.

"His attitude about working was that it was beneath him. That jobs that he could get were too undignified."

Poor men are criminals.

"the only kinds of work he found acceptable were, for the most part, illegal"

Poor men are gang-banging illiterate pimps.

"Often, he had been part of a gang, and had been delinquent since an early age. He usually had several children by several women. He may have been an outright pimp at some point."

Maybe someone should organize to hand this list out to all the people who have lost everything they had in the hurricane, so they know what's expected of them now that they are poor.