Help the homeless by giving to or shopping the thrift stores of the Salvation Army, Goodwill and similar organizations. If you personally know someone in dire straits, then you can help them one-to-one, but many beggars are scammers.
a couple of years ago there was a man that would solicit in the parking lot of the mall I would go to. Not just once or twice but constantly. His claim was he needed some money to pay the hotel bill his family was staying at while they traveled across the country. This went on for about four months. I never gave to him. I did ask him how long he was going to stay at the hotel and he took a swing at me. He left that parking lot after that.
“Help the homeless by giving to or shopping the thrift stores of the Salvation Army, Goodwill and similar organizations. “
Good intentions and bad economics. Expect to get more of anything that is subsidized. Salvation Army, etc. are run by lefties and they subsidize failure and poverty. What they do is grow the parasite class larger.
I agree that many panhandlers are scammers but to some extent Goodwill is also.
If you begin researching Goodwill more and more articles like this keep popping up.
Beggars are scammers. Truest words ever said. A social group I’m in adopted a family for Christmas. Mom and Dad somehow “forgot” to get married. They had 5 kids. He worked part time at the local Good Year plant. Somehow that never got into the paperwork. I didn’t find all this stuff out until the Mom went to work in a cafe where a friend worked. I was really ticked that they used our generosity so badly.