Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by Dude
I didn't say I'd spent any time being "the poor" in Britain. The social safety net here is quite different.

I *am* the social safety net here.

Yes, but by the nature of your job, you see the worst of the worst, right? That experience would affect your perceptions, because that group isn't representative of the whole.

Not that my experiences would represent the whole, either, because the working poor tend to shun people like those you represent. Nobody hates a welfare queen more than the woman with three jobs.