I created a new word

impoverophobia - : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against the poor or impoverished,,,,

Hate to bust your bubbe honey...lots of people are afraid of the poor. I admit, I ain't very happy about it when the local bums come begging at my window at a stop light...especially when I know for a fact that they spend thier money on malt liquor and scratch off tickets.

I do like your made up word...sounds politically correct.

thanx, I Try,,

Those guys kill me. I watch them out panhandling everyday at work with signs haven't eaten in a week any help you could provide or they will ask you for money to get some food and every time when I see someone give them money I watch them take the money and go right in to our store and buy beer or the cheap bottles of Vodka with it. I even saw one guy get violently upset because someone offered to buy him food instead of giving him food.

I have also seen a couple of the same homeless guys at the opposisite ends of our local Wal-Mart parking lot in wheel chairs holding signs saying they are veterans and hungry and they need money for food. They are there every day and I have seen on a couple occasions at the end of the day two guys in a brand new pick up truck with tinted windows pock both guys up and load them up and drive offl I have seen this same pickup truck on multiple occasions picking these same two guys up everynight and I have talked to people who work at that Wal-Mart and they have told me that in the morning that same truck drops them off like they are being dropped off for work and being picked up afrer work.

Lol, that is cute. Make one up for aversion to rich people? Or does noone have an aversion to people with money?

With this fallen economy and joblessness, one can predict there will be a much more level playing field.
Everyone knows someone who is jobless. Open your eyes. Try to understand what your are seeing.
Gotta be careful not to stereo type in this day and time...

no, those are the guys everyone tries to befriend and network with


but if I had to pick a word,, probably, bougiphobia...

lol

How about suckupalitus lol

lol,,,,

Probally got a touch of impoverophobia myself.


Not really the fear part of it but definalely the aversion symptons!

Hey remember I'm in NY and like Krup says...can't help thinking that they are only going to spend it on alcohol or drugs anyways.

They are practically on every corner.

Our local bum Joe Smoe (my son named him) sits outside of McDonalds and asks for money regularly, never food, only money.

Isn't that peniaphobia?

But I like yours better, peniaphobia actually sounds like the fear of something else, that has nothing to do with poverty and would make a great replacement for ithyphallophobia.

We need to make some phone calls and make this happen!

How about creating a word for an aversion to poor men only.

In the USA a woman can be poor but still be considered attractive. The same is not true for a poor man.

I'm Markecephus, and i approve this message.

Are you running for office or just on the run?

There are some truly needy folks out in the world.

There are others who choose to live off the Tax Payer.

What name shall we give to them? uowemealifeaholic? Fear of paying your own way?

If, they are able, they contribute. As in work. Not sittin' at home, drawin' food stamps and livin' off the Tax Payer.

Again, the Little Red Hen story for those crying, poor me, the world owes me.



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Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived on a farm . She was friends with a lazy dog , a sleepy cat , and a noisy yellow duck .


One day the little red hen found some seeds on the ground. The little red hen had an idea. She would plant the seeds .

The little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me plant the seeds ?"

"Not I," barked the lazy dog .
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat .
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"Then I will," said the little red hen . So the little red hen planted the seeds all by herself.


When the seeds had grown, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me cut the wheat ?"

"Not I," barked the lazy dog .
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat .
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"Then I will," said the little red hen . So the little red hen cut the wheat all by herself.


When all the wheat was cut, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me take the wheat to the mill to be ground into flour ?"

"Not I," barked the lazy dog .
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat .
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"Then I will," said the little red hen . So the little red hen brought the wheat to the mill all by herself, ground the wheat into flour , and carried the heavy sack of flour back to the farm .


The tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me bake the bread ?"

"Not I," barked the lazy dog .
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat .
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"Then I will," said the little red hen . So the little red hen baked the bread all by herself.


When the bread was finished, the tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me eat the bread ?"

"I will," barked the lazy dog .
"I will," purred the sleepy cat .
"I will," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"No!" said the little red hen . "I will." And the little red hen ate the bread all by herself.

I'm hungry.

I really don't want a name hung on anyone for being rich or poor. It just seems vulger to me so trying to call being afraid of poor people a phobia, a form of mental illness wheather mild or severe, is just trying to justify/excuse the choice to discriminate.

Yes I get the choice to not want to be around someone who doesn't have every freedom you have and not wanting to have to apologize for your successes but why is it necessary to be mean and rub people's nose in it. Or assume that just because people are poor that they did something wrong.

Illness, birth disabilities, being abandoned, natural disasters, being crime victims can set people back for years and years. It is real easy to get ahead in life if you have family and friends that help, or some viable job skills, or can pass as mainstream but if you get really down and out just surviveing can be about all you can manage.

I don't think a person who lives in an older neighborhood, or doesn't have fancy clothes, and a lot of bling, or poor education, or marginal health care is any less than those who may have more. They still love their families, do their chores, and often work longer hours trying to scrape by with two, three, and more part time jobs.

Do I like people that make professing poverty and begging? Not particularly. I have had some pretty tough times in my life; worked some really rotten jobs, lost or left behind almost every darn thing I had, missed meals, and taken a few beatings to survive but I was never faced with my kids going hungry or without shelter so I don't know what I would do then.

But not everyone that accepts a little help or collect what American's have said is their birthright or earned benifits should have to spend the rest of their life having theri nose rubbed in it.

It really chokes me a bit that there by the grace of God go some people or they have recovered their hard times or they are too darn young to really had any YET and they are so righteous. Try not to wish those folks ill but can't help maybe they get a little perspective.

Most of what you said I agree with.
The key is accept a little help as in hand up. There are those who are making careers out of sucking the life of those who pay taxes.

I am just a poor Redneck workin' hard just to make a livin'.

I will kind of paraphrase a statement from another thread.