(War on the Poor) This equates to almost $22,000 for every poor person in America every year. This brings us back to individual morality and how a deadbeat in society thinks it's perfectly okay to take that money and then has the audacity to complain that it's not enough. They have the nerve to claim that if someone gave you $22,000 a year, wouldn't you take it? Unfortunately, they are right; however, they still avoid one key fact: being a contributing member of society and not a washout. This only furthers the principle of dependence on government assistance and failure to progress towards self-sufficiency and