Reply #1: The usual bigotry and assumption

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that those who are poor are that way because they want to be or because they waste money on 'partying', and that the poor never 'work hard'. Anyone who has been around the working poor knows that that is a crock.

They also pander to the quaint notion that NO ONE gets government help except for the 'welfare cadillac class'. They conveniently forget that that college the daughter is going to is very likely one that receives some sort of government funding, or may even have been founded by the government (land grant colleges in the Midwest). If the young lady was like me, she might have gotten a state scholarship because of her good high school grades. But of course that isn't welfare, is it?</sarcasm>