You missed part of it. I don't have compassion for those who lack skills because of life choices they made. I didn't say you couldn't define compassion. You can't do it on my behalf and define it for me. There is a difference. There are people who lack skills not of their own doing then there are those who lack skills solely and only because of them. The former is not part of my contention. The latter are because they caused their problems and now want someone else to offset the results. The best example I can think of is the high school dropout. They lack education based on a choice they made and when they can't afford the results of that choice expect someone else to pay them more than the skills that less than high school education earns them to the point that they want the government to force it from the person who stayed in school.
Okay, let's take a look at that. A person should pay for the REST OF HIS LIFE for a poor decision that he made at 17. This by you is "compassion".
My expectation for someone paying for his/her own mistakes is called personal responsibility. Apparently you define compassion as forcing someone to pay a dime for a choice they didn't make regardless of age. I used the high school dropout as one example. There are other choices people make later in life that produce the same result and they still expect someone else to pay.
Was a time in this country, you could work a job that required no education, and still make a living wage doing it. Today we have college graduates on Ramen Noodle diets.
There was a time but not any more.
Someone having worth and thinking I should support having what I've earned taken from me to give to them is two different things. You confuse worth with entitlement to someone else's money. You define worth in a manner that if someone doesn't have what another person has, the one that has it should be willing to give up someone of it in order that the person who doesn't gets it.
Guy, I doubt your trailer-trash ass makes enough money to support a week's worth of food stamps for a poor person.
And, no, in my universe, when you live in the richest country in the world, you should not have children going to bed hungry at night because her mother dropped out of high school when she got pregnant.