Hunger and Homlessness: Rank pt 2.

I agree with Rank on almost all points but to be fair if I was going to say I didn't agree with him I would have to basically argue that the system is treating everyone fairly and nobody is being looked down on for being on welfare and that is an argument I don't think I can get behind. The problem I have though is that he generalizes the opponents of the welfare using society. Like many who learn fairly far to the left with regards to things like social programs (not that thats a bad thing) he see the people who disagree with him as privileged, eliteist, conservatives who are out of touch with the common people or their problems. The people who argue about welfare users or single parents considering them lazy or negligent are just as guilty but my point is that not everybody who thinks that way falls into the same catagory. For example, I know not all or even not very many lower class single moms are "looking to party (Rank pg. 19)" but I have the misfortune to know one. Her name is Maggie and she has three kids out of wedlock with different fathers. This doesn't make her a bad mother or wrong for collecting money from the government, the fact that she goes out drinking with her brother and his friends (me as part of this group) does; and when she doesn't have work she is high a lot of the time. Knowing her can't help but make me wonder how many cases like her there are. Another example (I want to remind you these are somebody elses' words not mine) is my friend Rudy whose family is in need of aid but won't apply for any because his brother tells him that welfare is "only for lazy black people," Rudy and his brother are hispanic and have voted democrat in every election. My point is that he should cast such a wide net and just write off the people who hold a different opinion that him.