On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:42:56 -0600, Just Wondering
Admitting you're poor to anyone is the unsaid suggestion that you
weren't smart enough to earn a decent living.

Is not. It the unsaid statement that you're going through hard
financial times. There could be a hundred reasons why; lack of
intelligence is only one of them. Divorce is another, as is being laid
off from a financially troubled company through no fault of your own.

You're right, there could be hundreds of reasons why and a significant
portion of them can just as easily negative reasons.

It should be obvious just by reading some of the opinions voiced here
on this forum. Criticism of people without health insurance. Criticism
of people getting social assistance. Criticism of people just trying
to survive. No one first wonders why people got into that situation.
The first inclination is to think ill of someone.

You see a street person begging for money. No one first thinks they
may be there because they got laid off and their luck spiraled down
until they wound up on the street. Instead the average person just
wants them to be somewhere else, anywhere else except begging money
from them. That's reality.

If you believe the average person walking along the street seeing a
street person first thinks they may be there because they got laid
off, then you're completely deluded.