Mr. Anderson, you clearly have no concept of the working poor.

The equation is pretty simple... 40 hours a week at $5.15 an hour, working 52 weeks = $10,712 a year. That equation assumes that the person works every day with no vacation.

Add in food, childcare, transportation and rent and you are left with very little. Most low income people work 40 or more hours a week. However, it is very hard to save money when every sent of the paycheck goes to living day to day.

Asking lower income people to "get off their duffs and work hard" is one of the most offensive things you have posted yet.

May I suggest you read "Nickel and Dimed in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich.