Do the poor deserve what they get? Is it their fault?

These kinds of rediculous generalizations are one of the reasons that many poor continue to be marginalized. I'm not talking about lazy bums.

The funny thing is, not only do they condem the poor, but when there is an opportunity to do something about it, to lift people out of poverty through job-training, shelters, education and the like, they don't want to have anything to do with it. I don't think some people can even understand what "poor" can also mean in most of America now days.
The working poor in America would probably work out to be a staggering number of people. Not people on government assistance, but people that are working for a living but are one step away from the streets because of the driving down of wages and the disappearance of unions in this country.
Good, solid blue collar jobs are also going the way of plenty of IT jobs: overseas or to slave/immigrant labor.

People screamed and yelled when the grocery workers here in Southern CA went out on strike, saying that they make too much money already and should pay more into their health plans.
Yet these are the same people screaming about the lazy poor! Here we have a large group of workers in our communities that are making good wages and have good working conditions and benefits, yet other people in the community think this is a bad thing??
Why the fuck would that be?
Because they are hypocrites.
They want people to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" but they
scream when they DO that and try to collectively bargain for a decent
living wage.