Poverty Doesn't Care About Your Work Ethic

Lets face facts, your position in life when you are born makes a huge difference in where you end up as you get older. Pulling yourself up by the proverbial bootstraps is a rarity, where such cases are highlighted by conservative to try and prove that the government does not need to provide assistance to it's citizens. Today, people in poverty are working hard at low-paying jobs and still have trouble scraping enough together. Like Peter Edelman says in the video below, it isn't about those that bilk the government for welfare checks. The reality is far different than the right wing spin you hear about the less fortunate among us.