Undeserving

Funny - the word "undeserving" wasn't mentioned when both parties rescued Wall Street's megabanks. ❋ RJ (2011)

Yasin has also written about being overlooked twice and what he calls undeserving people being rewarded instead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Would we consider some -- whom we may have written off in the past as "undeserving" -- worthy of our collective empathy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

TAX AND SPENDPlay Now, Pay LaterFOR MOST OF THE PAST TWO DECADES, American politics have been driven to the fight by a crude but powerful assumption: that those "tax and spend" Democrats have been taking away the taxpayers 'hard-earned money and giving it to "them" - the so-called undeserving poor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The GOP has used the idea of "undeserving" people getting something from the hard work of others from President Reagan's time if not before. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It goes beyond the idea of an 'undeserving rich'...certain segments of the so-called undeserving rich are the actual cause of the crisis wee are in... ❋ Unknown (2011)

These wait on you, to thank you for the honour you have done a person, equally unknown as undeserving, in your valuable present, which I did not receive till several weeks after it was sent: and since I received it, my eyes have been so bad, and my hand so unstable, that I have been forced to defer my duty, as desirous to thank you with my own hand. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

They are scared stiff that some "undeserving" poor person might benefit from their hard-earned money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They claim that struggling homeowners are "undeserving" of help, even if the other party in their transaction has broken the law or violated a contract. ❋ RJ (2010)

It is easy for those who have never experienced these problems to apportion the "undeserving" tag to drug users, but a failure to understand the starting point for addiction means that policies that spoon-feed attractive soundbites to Middle England about getting all addicts off drugs are unlikely to translate into successful outcomes for users. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The response of the Welsh people was so ferociously against the decision ... and so I became the people's choice, some kind of undeserving hero. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's taking money from "hard-working" Americans and giving it to unspecified "undeserving" people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Santelli, Rush Limbaugh, and hate-talk radio screed is directed at a whole category of people whom they regard as "undeserving". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hym "You know, I think some of the contempt that is [levied] at me is [undeserved]... I am great and should be lauded for my dialogical screenwriting [prowess]." ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

Undeserved Sympathy: sympathy which should really be granted to the rich but is not due to shallow jealousy I'm sorry we'll be in [Aspen] this week. Why don't you call your friends and ask them to come over. Translation: I'm sorry we have the money to continue our search for entertainment instead of [doing the job] we're supposed to do in raising you. Why don't you look to others for your self [esteem] and nurturing. We're going to the Reads Charity event, if you want something, [Helda] can make it for you. Translation: Once again, we won't be home for nice dinners and family cooked meals, instead we'll leave you a kitchen full of food that has to be cooked and you can spend the evening listening to how much our staff doesn't like us. I'll get you a job. Translation: We weren't home or sober enough to make sure you learned the [coping skills] you'd need to survive in the world, so we'll call a friend and get you employment which will pay well but leave you [souless] because in your heart of hearts you'll know you don't deserve it. I married a younger woman/man. Translation: I didn't need respect from society because I have money, so I picked myself out a nice prostitute to be your [stepmother]. ❋ Yachtclub101.blogspot.com (2010)