SO middle class and lower working stiffs - who cannot afford to eat at Starbucks even if they wanted to pay higher taxes on their earnings so the welfare class can dine on Starbucks fare - no wonder Illinois is on the brink of bankruptcy.
I approve of private individuals/companies giving food to the hungry. A Jewish carpenter I hold in high regard approved too, and I try to listen to him. However, I don’t see it as a dignity thing. We need to find less dignity in dependence on charity and more in rising out of the need for charity. It’s just compassion to use your own resources to feed those in need, whether that is bologna on two slices of bread or Starbucks. In return, those who receive the food have a responsibility to improve their situation so they no longer need that charity.
Dignity, my rear.
This is just yet another incentive to stay homeless and not put any effort into getting a job and providing for your own shelter.
More plantation politics.
Now, if they had invested(or been sponsored) in a program that would assist people in being hire-ready and the results produced fewer and fewer homeless, I might have another opinion.
FReeRegards,
FMOKM