those images but the fact is when they attack those programs in theory, they are attacking poor kids. well, what they re attacking more than anything is not the wasted money as much as it is the wasted lives. and the wasted futures of people who get caught up in of this safety hammock let s just say. what they want is a tramp mo lean. of course, you re going to work hard to fulfill the need that exists. everybody is touched by poverty at one point in their life with need, with scarcity. not everybody is. my parents were farm workers. i grew up migrating from california, nebraska, and washington state. i know what need is and what poverty is. they never took welfare. this is an interesting point. it does feel like the republican party on this question is made up of two different coalitions. one is often the sort of up from narrative of folks who came up from circumstances of poverty. then there is the mitt romney version of republicanism we saw on display this time which isn t a