First, you seem to attribute poverty to “sloth and laziness.”  That is a slanderous lie about the poor commonly used by the better off to rationalize their own greedy unwillingness to do anything to help.  Second, you seem to be wilfully blind to the fact that every ‘new’ plan to kill the poor proposed by the Republicans contains massive increases in premiums.  You have the right to walk by poor Lazarus abandoned in the gutter, but then you should at least have the intellectual integrity to admit you just don’t care.  Don’t rationalize being self-centered  with lies about the poor being lazy and slothful.  In essence, your position echoes Cain’s answer – “am I my brother’s keeper” – when God asked him about his murdered brother Abel.  Well, CorvetteKid, you are clearly willing to rob the poor of little they have and leave them to die.  Jesus said 'what you do to the least of these,’ you are doing to Him.  When you turn your back on the poor,  you turn your back on Christ!