Teach a man to fish, but choose not to give him a pole, or bait, and only allow him to fish in a river so polluted that the fish have all died, and he's not going to eat.
Give a man a job at a good wage, and he'll be able to buy food that tastes a hell of a lot better than fish.
Conservatives do not believe in people. They believe in themselves. Maybe also in their friends. Given a choice between keeping 5 percent of their fortune or letting it get spent on lifting 10 million people out of poverty, they'd keep that 5 percent.
Romney himself proved you wrong: Like Yasser Arafat, he said one thing in public, then said something totally different in his own language to "his base." To us, he said, "I'm not concerned about the very poor," then backtracked, saying that they ARE taken care of... which is hardly the case. Then he goes to that dinner and rips the poor as "takers." And those fatcats lapped it up. They DO want to get rid of the social safety net. They've been trying for 100 years.