Some of the finest people I have ever known I met at the Eugene Mission, years ago when we were surviving as best we could. I am talking of people you seem to see as capable scapegoats, people who never had anything or anyone, but were able to sit at a table and have a meal and meet others struggling as they. 
What was devastating was the lack of resources, those steps that help people understand they are loved and talented and live in a community that cares about them. And, of course, attitudes that joyfully abuse the very poor and lost.
To mock the poor from anonymity is cowardice. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene