[Pipe_Dream]

That "poverty mentality" knows no racial boundaries. A friend of mine worked in one of the gated communities here, side by side with many low-wage earners. Every day they passed by the many large homes owned by upper middle class to wealthy folks. Whenever he would ask one of them how they thought the homeowner might have amassed the money to buy such a home, the answer was the same:
"They stole it."

So much for the hard-work equals reward ethic. :-/