$11 in one hour does not mean an average $11 per hour over a 40-hour work week over 52 weeks.
I respect a panhandler more than I do a welfare bum.
Back in the 70’s I seem to remember a “school” of sorts that would teach you how to panhandle. You picked what type of scam you wanted to be - wino, war injury, blind man, school fundraiser, etc. - then gave you tips on how to dress, what to say, and so on.
It was disgusting to hear the number of people with no moral compass.
That was a good show, but I would have recognized Stossel in a New York minute. His disguise didn’t hide the snarky twinkle in his eye!
Drive through the Indian Reservations and look at where campfires were burned along side the road. And beside the campfire will be a pile of beer cans. Very sad.
I worked in the inner city with alcoholics.. most of them panhandled .
I was told by more than one that they could make between $100 and $150 a day pan handling..
This is tax free and did not interfere with the welfare payments many of them got..
He had clips from some of his earlier shows. There was one with him driving the "free" electric golf cart he bought and then got a federal rebate for, the CEO of GE who buddied up to 0bama and won all kinds of subsidies for wind turbines, and a solar panel company (in the midwest?) where 0bama gave a speech claiming it was going to create thousands of new jobs.
These are the kind of panhandlers we ordinary Americans can't turn down, because they get their handouts straight from the Treasury.
He forgot to include Social Security recipients who knew, at the time, that their retirement money was being stolen from them, yet today they still DEMAND it from my kids (and future) grand kids.
But I get point otherwise.
Family of middle easterners hit me up at a truckstop in mt. Home idaho last night, wanted me to use my credit card to buy them gas. I told them to get ahold of their relatives who have all the oil.