Money is speech. If a rich Republican can spend millions to influence an election, then a citizen of Eugene can spend a dollar to help a poor person. 
What you are really saying is that you want the poor to go away and not bother you with their plight. As machines take over more and more industry, as more and more businesses move to Mexico and China, as tech changes jobs so Uber takes away Taxi jobs, you might want to get used to the sight of lost and broken people.
We don't live in the America of 1955, where not having a job was a choice. We live in the Reagan/Clinton era where the poor have welfare eliminated, jobs shifted via NAFTA, pubic housing decimated, and the poor treated with contempt by those who see themselves as above the fray, or are just enamored of the Rush delight in abusing the poor.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene