Posted on 08/27/2013 12:42:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SO, does this mean we can expect to see sign in major cites like the ones in the Yellowstone that read, "Please, don't feed the hobos."?
We are living in a fantasy land and the the fantasy is a nightmare.
Didn’t read it... but what about Church charities..?
I do know that the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves”.
From the article:
Since when is it illegal to give somebody food? In Orlando FL, it has been since April 2011, when a group of activists lost a court battle against the city to overturn its 2006 laws that restrict sharing food with groups of more than 25 people. The ordinance requires those who do these “large” charitable food sharings in parks within two miles of City Hall to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per park for a year.
makes perfect sense since then the Bureaucrats have less job security.
I’d like it to be a ticketable offense to, while operating a motor vehicle on the public roads, give money to pedestrians. When I lived in Seattle I got a lot of fingers and horn honks when I would pass some women (why was it always women?) stopping at the end of the freeway offramp to give money to a beggar, and holding up traffic in the process.
Fortunately it is something I have not seen since my move to kentucky farmland. No, here the FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR FAMILES PUT UP CONES AND BEG FOR MONEY AT BUSY INTERSECTIONS DURING RUSH HOUR. Someone’s going to get hit one of these days.
I’ve not seen anything about the “homeless problem” since Jan 2009......
They can go to a shelter and get food.
What happened to, “Separation of Church and State”, (the original intention)? Ya, this has gone on too far..
It was stated to keep The Government from running the Politics with Religion..
Usually the women give so they don’t feel guilty. I know numerous women who tell me this.
Charity is a good thing. Giving handouts to these people is not helping them.
You can't just go out and feed the homeless!
You gots to get edumicated!
You gots to get a food license from the State.
You gots to get a permit from the city.
You gots to have 1 million in liability insurance.
I agree.
And the reason it’s illegal is because it’s akin to opening a soup kitchen without a license.
Literally 100s of homeless gather wherever the well meaning feeders decide to open up shop. There has to be some order about it.
It’s important to parse homeless into groups. Different groups elicit different levels of sympathy and have different wants and needs.
1) Homeless families with children. The most sympathetic group are also the least likely to stay homeless any length of time. They tend to happen with blue collar skills during an economic downturn. The support and aid for them is there, usually, with private support and aid outstripping public aid. They also tend to be transient, looking for work.
2) Teenage and young adult homeless. A mixed bag, with some being “voluntary” homeless, who often think of themselves as “campers”, not wanting particularly to live indoors, hold a steady job, and become part of what they define as “the system”. They usually accept aid only when it has no strings attached. They deeply distrust government. Many middle class people are utterly perplexed by them, unable to imagine people who don’t want to live in homes with steady jobs.
Another group are runaways, often from horrific home lives. Government is seen as their enemy, because it wants to return them to people who would abuse and even molest them. Their best help comes from churches who are often very sympathetic to their plight and help them regain normal lives without threat.
A third group of young homeless are anarchic and somewhat hedonistic. Many just “grow up” and leave that life behind, but some turn into criminals or die young.
3) Older homeless, who include mildly retarded, mentally ill, addicts and alcoholics, and sometimes “blanks”, people who want to be outside of “the system”, as adults. There are a multitude of things that *can* help them, but far fewer that actually *do* help them. This covers such a broad spectrum that no simple blanket solution exists.
i give when i am led to give... it comes from within... i cannot exactly describe it... i believe it is the Holy Spirit leading me...
If you think its the holy spirit thats your call.
Here in Tampa we have people who live in tents all over the area. They’ll usually put up their tent in the little treed areas between highways and such.
The shelters don’t allow booze or drugs so they prefer the tent.
it’s illegal to give away my personal property? wtf?
what if I charged for it... and had a license for a vendor stand? they still have those, right? and what if the biscuits and coffee cost $0.01? got a problem with that?
wtf is wrong with these people.
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