The left teaches that the impoverished are victims of an unjust economic system that the government should mitigate through confiscatory taxation and economic redistribution. The right believes that the poor remain mired in inter-generational poverty owing to dysfunctional individual and family behavior, made worse by a culture of welfare entitlement.
This
story of a Minnesota lesbian couple that tried to help a
displaced Louisiana family seems to make the case that culture
counts.