I'm familiar with the Heritage Foundation's attitude towards the poor. It is the view that the poor are immoral and that only their children (and only so long as they are children) are victims- it reeks of Calvinism. It is also not consistent with the reality I have personally witnessed. I must grant that the Foundation is rather skilled at making greed seem moral. Yes, technology has been advancing, but with it expectations of faster performance, pollution and many other undesirable side effects.
In its own way, such a quasi-Calvinist mindset is worse than Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism, while heartless, at least makes no moral judgments. Calvinism attempts to condemn the poor and ultimately, to blame its own victims.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)