rewards the lazy? Jealousy? Why are wealthy people made out to be evil while lazy people are referred to as the poor innocent people (I am referring to people that live off govenment programs when they are capable of working.)

So if you're not wealthy, you're lazy?































Interesting assessment. Thank you.

They're angry that they're not like those sucessful people. Isn't it obvious?

I can't help but wonder why you had to qualify 'successful' by adding the word 'rich'? Was that to justify calling children and the elderly LAZY? You know, the majority of welfare recipients?

Because the liberals control the media which is why you should watch Fox News so you can hear the truth.

Because, my dear, everyone wants something for free if they think they can get it.

Because the poor are a very vocal minority and the rich are easy to criticize.

because you are obviously a penus.

Nobody wants to see the rich punished just pay their fair share. A person making one million a year pays less of a present of their money in taxes as someone existing at the poverty level. How is that fair?

Don't get these Y!A socialists upset!

Because the rich can only blame themselves for working hard. While the poor can blame thier poor choices and bad decisions on anything and everyone.

If a person works hard to make a fortune, I think they should be able to decide how it is spent. Not the government.

I don't know why, but rich people work very hard to get where they are in life. I guess people look down on the childen of rich familes that have everything handed to them andnever work a day in thei life they are lazy!!

Educate yourself and quit listening to Rush:































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because the people in the court houses feel a sense of power when they sentence someone in the public eye to do time.

I have always wondered why the politicians receive great health-care plans, retirement packages and salaries in which they can vote themselves increases, not to mention the influence peddling and insider info for stock and other money-making opportunities through lobbyists......you are correct, why do these lazy people benefit from us?

UGh, I know exactly how you feel. I think about this ALL of the time. IF you are truly in need of aid it makes sense... but most of them really are lazy! If you are getting that money from the government, you better be crippled, blind, deaf, homeless, and have a total of three fingers. If the above is not true, Mickey D's is ALWAYS hiring... Let's get serious.































The ones that work hard for their money should be able to keep it. What the hell is wrong with this picture??? Yhe lazy should NOT be rewarded... the hard working should.

Well, I agree with you completely. Than those who are busting their butts to make ends meet and need just a lil bit of help are denied because they "make too much". The alternative would be to do nothing and get hand outs. I was there. At 21 with baby #1. Husband working hard. We wanted medicaid but his $400/week was "too much"! Instead of living like that, he worked his butt off and now at 26 is making loads more. So, its not just jealousy, its lack of drive to succeed and a false feeling of entitlement.

For the most part the wealthy are evil, but, the poor are not innocent. For the most part they are fat, lazy, and ignorant. BOTH must be curtailed, prosecute the criminal and stop funding the capable.

Your obvious a "silver spoon brat", success and rich doesn't equal each other in the real world.

Isn't it obvious. People work hard and just make there bills in the mean time they see the wealthy drive big cars, live in huge homes, take vacations all the time, while paying the people who make this possible for them just barely enough to survive on. Its not that there evil its that they are indifferent to the world around them.

Governments today haven't forgotten what the French did to their aristocracy. They try and 'balance' things a bit.















When one thinks about it, the game of land possession is only that -a game. One may try and get others to believe that 'God' ordained it to them...but deep down everyone knows they stole, hustled it, you name it.















If the rule is 'might makes right' well, then...the wealthy and powerful (by virtue of militia, etc, to uphold their claim to possession) had best take heed. The power of the lowly French peasantry gillotined ALL the wealthy and powerful while they told themselves that 'it could never happen!'

First of all, Dani is nuts. The rich pay 24-35% of their income to the Govt, while those living at the poverty line pay much less. Besides, those at the poverty line also receive govt. handouts, so their net is actually in the black. What is fair would be a flat tax, where everyone pays the same % in taxes, no matter how much you make, or no income tax at all. Why should I be penalized for becoming successful by having to pay a greater % of my income?

You are asking 2 questions that are quite different.































a) Why do so many people like to see the successful/rich punished?































b) Why does the government reward the lazy?































I doubt that many people out there like to see lazy people rewarded for doing nothing. The system is in place for those that need help, but people take advantage. However, you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater and take away benefits to the needy just because some people take advantage.































People always take advantage, no matter what their economic standing. Rich people can be just as lazy. In a lot of ways, they are even more lazy. Or they can just be very selfish and greedy.































The term is 'schadenfreude'... look it up. People like watching rich/successful people fall because there are far too many cases where people hear about rich/successful people getting away with things. Even murder. Hello OJ! Hello Robert Blake! Hello Brandy! Paris almost got special treatment and released (actually, she still is getting preferred treatment).































People like to know that rich people don't ALWAYS get away with these types of things.

a lot of time the poor unworking people have circumstances that are basically unfathomable to those who have different experiences. many haven't had proper nutrition, health care, mental health care, family values or education to say the least. it's easy to pass judgment when one hasn't themselves had certain challenges. not to say that it cannot be done, but rarely do you see someone with all of these and many more obstacles to contend with find a way to fully overcome them. sometimes people try and try, and eventually give up and give in.

I know several poor people including me who have worked hard all of their lives, and I also know some rich people who are the laziest good for nothing pieces of crap I have ever met. so don't be sayin that just cause your rich you aint lazy.

The reason could be that "so many people" feel cheated by this classist society because they are denied the benefits, special treatment and superiority that rich people are granted.































I don't believe that it has anything to do with jealousy, I believe that it has to do with hatred of the classist power structure. It seems that "so many people" don't know what the real enemy is and they take their anger and frustration out on rich people because they have confused the evil social order with the people living within the evil social order.















































It is incorrect to call the rich "successful" just for being rich. People who are capable of working that inherit riches and live off of their parents' fortune and do not work can easily be classified as "successful" just for being rich.































It is also incorrect to call poor innocent people "lazy" just for being in need of government assistance while being capable of working. People who inherit poverty that work two or three McJobs a day while also receiving extra assistance from the government can easily be classified as "lazy" just for being poor innocent people.