Posted on 04/10/2014 6:50:24 AM PDT by shove_it
Great idea.
The ‘needy’ get a shirt/jacket etc and the business gets some free advertisement..though when most people see a ‘needy’ person they sort of cast their eyes to the sky or ground so not only ‘NO EYE CONTACT’— unless the ad is on the shoes— it will go unread.
When the Unions get hold of it, the practice will go to hell and the businesses will be ‘FORCED’ to give the shirts/jackets out sans the advertisement.
Few years back some ‘reformed’ drug dealer came up with an idea to make entrepreneurs out of the ‘needy’ by outfitting them with shoe shine kits and the first start up (at NO expense to anyone (Government wise)) and let the ‘needy’ start their own shoe shine business.
The local (DC) Government deemed that shoe shining by the homeless would be demeaning and wouldn’t benefit them so the project was banned.
Guess shining shoes (though yes, the prices would be ‘cheap’ because of all the competition) is considered demeaning but standing on the corner in a thunderstorm with a newspaper over your head and a cup in your hand is good for ones soul.
Bendy,
FYI
If the homeless don’t like them, the homeless don’t have to eat them.
Exploitation.
Meanwhile, they still are homeless.
That reminds me of a review of a bar in Chicago. They described the patrons:
“It's sort of like the cast from Cheers, except they appear as though they have escaped from a methadone clinic and you can hear the sound of human hope slowly dying. I was sitting next to a guy with a dent in his head big enough to hold a bowl of Froot Loops”
Editor's note was a warning: “Do not go into this place, it is one of the most dangerous bars in the city.”
I went in there one time to buy a bottle of vodka on New Year's Eve and the patrons hallowed me and said “Happy New Year!” many times. A few older fellows and old ladies followed me out into the street as they threw confetti on my head.
Top ‘o the muffin to ya!
My God...that's a funny line! I was actually in a place like that once.It was in Detroit...or was it Oakland?
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