When you are standing in line with someone or have personal contact with them, you are in a much better position to judge whether they truly need help or are just gaming the system.
It’s why faith-based charities are so much more effective than government programs.
Obviously the stranger sized-up the situation and determined that the lady was in distress. Kudos to him!
But that denies government their power, can't have that, according to Liberals, they should be the sole source of "Charity."
Well stated.
You hit on a very good point here. I'm as disinterested (maybe disconnected is a better word) as anyone when it comes to stories about people facing hardships, but when interacting with someone directly like this I am generous to a fault. I don't know why the original poster would assume that so many Freepers would instinctively expect anyone to think of this family as a group of "deadbeats."
If anything, this story focuses on the whole discussion about the true nature of charity, and makes any notion of "deadbeats" completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if anyone in this story was a deadbeat, or wasn't truly in need. The stranger gave generously of herself, and doesn't have to answer to anyone else about it.