Low-income doesn’t equate with ‘lazy’

Letter to the Editor

Posted 12/27/17

Far too often, I hear the Trump supporters saying how he will cut government assistance programs so the low-income people will be forced to get a job.

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Low-income doesn’t equate with ‘lazy’

Letter to the Editor

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To the Editor:


Far too often, I hear the Trump supporters saying how he will cut government assistance programs so the low-income people will be forced to get a job. In other words, we have less money only because we are lazy.

May I remind people that we are all born with different abilities and come from different backgrounds. Some have high self-esteem, which can help and some just have the ability to just talk their way up the ladder. It doesn’t make them smarter or a harder worker.
I worked in food service mostly, including washing walls, picking up trash and cleaning bathrooms for 32 years. All I ever got for my effort was mostly minimum wage and a kick in my back pockets because employers were never satisfied.
My main point really is just don’t put us in one category. Some of us just have to do the best we can.


Jerry Huckfeldt
Torrington