Whenever people mention poverty, they automatically assume the dumb@$$ friend they had in high school that doesn't get a job... or they picture these welfare mothers. Sure those people exist, as well as the morons who live beyond their means twenty times over and never learn no matter how bad things get.
But the other side of it is the disabled, who most of us except a few wacky libertarians and a few even wackier (but less deluded- they admit to being heartless) Nazis, agree deserve some aid... and the old who can no longer support themselves. Most of us are okay with them.
But even in the groups we don't care for so much, a lot of it is structural and just going on saying only idiots are poor doesn't help. Plus the consequences of the people living in structural poverty are real, typically seen by us as crime.
Only a person with very lop-sided life experiences can come to either the conclusion that all poor are idiots or that all are deserving of unconditional aid. Until we get beyond the stupidity of either of these assumptions, we will continue to see more and more garbage that is not helpful at least, detrimental at its strongest... more crap either making excuses for all poor or condemning them all. Truth is that poverty has many faces... and as much as few in the US are poor... a lot of that has to do with Social Security... Doesn't it seem odd to use the "fact" that there's no poverty to support an ideology that will give us more poverty.
Realism, folks. It's the unideology.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside