By LARRY WILKE

Even as we have just ended the holiest time of year, I cannot bring myself to feel sorry for “the poor,” or should I say the liberals’ dystrophic version of “the poor.”

Let me be specific. There are two totally different groups of “poor” people. The first group is an ever-changing assortment that finds themselves temporarily in the lowest strata. These are the folks who truly do “fall upon hard times.” The “bread winner” loses his or her job for example, and with the Obama domestic policy of “destroy American jobs by the millions,” this group unfortunately has gotten appreciably larger since January of this year. The crucial words within the description of this group are “ever-changing assortment” and “temporarily.” My compassion for this group is genuine and heartfelt, as they have found themselves in this position through no fault of their own and it is their deepest desire to remove themselves from it as quickly as possible.

The second group I call the “professional poor,” otherwise known as the “liberal base.” These are the liberal myrmidons who have been conditioned to believe that the world owes them something. Scratch that, the world owes them EVERYTHING. These are the people who refuse to even attempt to contribute to society in a positive way even though they are fully functional and completely ambulatory. For them I have only contempt and bile.

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