" If people didn't milk the system"

As an observer, I find that those who are blessed to have enough to eat, have a nice house, medical insurance and such, are often the least empathetic the "have-nots".
I go to a college that is essentially a business/trade school. Many of the folks that go there have less than the minimum requirements of a high school graduate. They may finished high school, but their education was lacking in the basics, like algebra, writing, spelling. They have to take extra classes, for no credit, to get caught up to the minimum standards. They want to work, have a nice home, and drive a decent car, but some of them cannot progress. They aren't bad people; in fact most of them are very nice and hard working. They will not get into the program they need to get ahead. They come from families that are uneducated also. One young man I met, works full time and goes to college, after giving his mom all of his money. She's medically disabled and he and his siblings have moved back home so their mom won't lose her home to foreclosure and face homelessness at the age of 60.He is struggling to pass basic classes to become a certified auto mechanic, so that he can take care of his mom and himself. He went to Detroit schools and has had a very poor education. He's very well spoken, but writing is not his forte. Also, there are women, like myself that got married,had kids and were subsequently abandoned by their husbands. They are 40-50 and never finished college, and have to start over.They can't just pick up and leave that state, or get a loan from a rich family member. They're on their own.
What do we do for the people that aren't college material? All of the manufacturing jobs are gone, and unskilled labor is a thing of the past. I was deemed too dumb for algebra in high school, so I took business math. Now, in college, I have to have algebra. Some folks after taking the classes twice are told, "sorry, you cant get in to the program", and by then you're in debt for classes and have nothing to show.
People often like to pretend that nothing is what it is. "The poor are poor because they're lazy". If someone can't read and lives in an abadoned house, what do you think their chances are of getting employment?
Sad to say this, but WAKE UP WHITE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA!- now that you're suffering the same fate of unemployment, poverty and welfare, you can see that it's no picnic.
When black and white inner city folks were losing everything and had no insurance, no one cared, but now that white middle class America is suffering " OH MY GOD! IT'S A NATIONAL CRISIS!!!!!
I am disgusted by the bile that comes out of people's mouths