Are Poor People Disadvantaged or Lazy?

I am popping my STEEMIT cherry with this topic that has bothered me for the past few years...

When I was a young kid, my mother would take my sister and I to the soup kitchen to volunteer.

As I grew up, I became a boy scout (eventually an Eagle Scout) and continued volunteering.

I entered college in 2007 and still believed that poor people were disadvantaged; like society had kicked them to the curb and left them there to rot.

After college, I jumped from job to job, barely making ends meet. I consistently had 2 jobs and was working about 50+ hours a week. (I currently work around 65 hours a week between 2 jobs). I'm by no means rich, but I'm getting by...

As the years progressed of being in the workforce, my outlook on poor people changed.

Somewhere along the line, I decided that poor people are simply lazy and don't want to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make their own life better. They live off of food stamps, and section 8, and some don't even do that and choose to live in cardboard boxes or tents and beg on the side of the road.

Am I wrong for thinking that? What do you think?

Let me know in the comments below.