You are so retardedly wrong it's mind boggling.
You honestly think this? You would have to have a mental disorder to not understand that "the poor" that work commonly make tons of stupid mistakes in life such as eating snacks out of the vendor machine at work daily for $3.00 , buying lunch by going out instead of bringing it for $12.00, and having $5 coffee drinks at Starbucks 3-4 times a week. You might think that's little - you might feel entitled to such commodities in life - but that is absolute insanity to state that the bottom class of america doesn't have spending disorders and countless other problems that can be addressed through not being lazy and educating oneself.
Once again I go back to my point on how successful immigrants are and you have yet to offer any valid counterpoint.
That's a pretty ridiculous blanket you have tossed out there. I don't know why you think "the working poor" have such frivolous money to spend on frivolous lunches and snacks when they simply don't have that money to spend. More often than not, they are eating rice and beans for less than $2 meal, quite regularly, and splurge on chicken thighs maybe once a week. It's not like you can squeeze blood from a turnip.
You are confusing the actual working poor for the somewhat better off lower middle class that indeed do tend to spend frivolous cash on frivolous meals when they would probably be better off not doing it, when they can actually afford to save. But then, perhaps these people are a bit happier in life? Perhaps that is better...I don't know.
It's a conservative wet dream to explain away that poverty is a simple equation of choice; you must and can only ever be this way because
you choose it. Otherwise, the proud conservative has to accept that the holy market economy manages to fail a large segment of the population, purely by design. That is an abject lie. Yes, some people make terrible choices, or not the best choices. Then again, many, many people work their asses off with 2 jobs and can still barely afford to feed a couple of kids.
Properly educating oneself today, for actual jobs that will actually raise them out of robot-replacement-status, requires real time and guess what: real money. These are things that people don't really have when you are stuck in that pit. Often times people are born into it through no real choice of their own (a fact of reality that the typical American doesn't want to believe, because it rejects what is the outright myth of the "American Dream" in this modern world). Honestly, I think this type of working class poor is generally unavoidable without a real paradigm shift in societal acceptance of a new economic model. Social services that today are actually quite necessary to keep everyone wealthy and productive (even the wealthy that don't use these services directly, really do depend on the poor to use these services to not make the insurance, health care costs, and tax base of the wealthy that much more expensive), are just going to keep ballooning in order to keep the middle class and wealthier within their happy do-not-revolt bubbles.
That, or we start shifting towards some sort of workable basic income that replaces much of the societal welfare burden into an individual empowerment--the conservative wet dream--where you hopefully reduce the financial burden for the poor, to free up time and energy where even menial jobs still work for them, maybe even allow a little savings on the top, and even the middle class and wealthy now have a good punch of free spending cash to well, sock all the more away and improve the future wealth prospects of their human seed, or lease that stupidly useless American-made German car that they always wanted for no defensible reason. Everyone is happy!