I will say that Dickey has done a beautiful job of proving my point about the way the poor are devalued and held in contempt.

I can't wait to go back to work on Tuesday to spread the news to all the extremely hardworking and extremely hard up poor people I work with that the problem is their values.

"If you would only work 4 jobs instead of three, dear, and eat dogfood instead of spam, all your problems would be solved. YOu obviously don't have a good work ethic and waste money on expensive food. You live right behind Food Lion, surely you could go dumpster diving in your free time to extend that food budget.   I know it is tough washing all your clothes in the bathtub for the past 3 years, since you can't afford to go to the laundry mat. (Why you can't afford that is beyond me--three jobs as housekeeper at anywhere from $1.95 to $2.50 a room, and your rent in the bonifide lowest rent dumb in town is only $500 per month plus utilities.) Now, even though your IQ is 85 and you were beaten and raped for years by your well-off father and your stepbrother, there is no need for you to quit your job as a housekeeper at the local upscale motel just because the manager feels you up everytime you go in to get your pay of $2.50 per room cleaned. He's in the middle socioeconomic class, so his values are just fine. It is somehow your fault that he does this every Friday afternoon. If you quit that job, you just don't have a good work ethic. Now, let us sort out those values a little better. Yes, it does get confusing. If you dump the husband who drinks, smokes crack and beats you your children will not have their father in the home and you will demonstrate a lack of family values for not keeping the family intact. If you don't dump him, you are a wimp, a loser and a fool who deserves what she gets for being so stupid as to stay. Tough one--well--not really. You are poor, no matter what you do, and will stay that way, no matter what you do. And since you are poor, you are a loser with no family values or work ethic--the fact that you are poor proves it. Now, get out of my office, if I try to do something or work with you to try to help you, I am mitigating and simply contributing to your problem."