lmao !
They’re pushy, crass, brazen and bold.
Airport authorities ought to better police those freaks.
A friend of mine handles situations like this by giving a rambling speech in Serbian, complete with exaggerated hand gestures.
Of course, this only works if you speak Serbian, and the panhandler does not. :)
The real entitlement class comprises of tens of millions of unionize government employees which your paying *100* percent of their lottery style wages, benefits and retirement pensions...
It's just anecdotal, but I sense a real attitude rebellion brewing in this country, and when it explodes the entitlement class won't know what hit them.
“Vanity-The entitlement class is getting on my nerves.”
I could have posed the same idea. Of course if I wanted to put it in “Breaking News” I would have had to post it 30 years ago.
They are well past my nerves by now.
When I worked for Chrysler in the 1990’s one of my friends went to Vegas and a beggar asked him for money. My friend Dan then went into a spiel about the government having a safety net for people like you. The guy just stared dumbfounded at Dan. It was always one of Dan’s shticks to use when we were having conversations of who was going to buy coffee for the day. We always got a good laugh out of it in the Good Old days, so to speak.
lmao !
You are just lucky he didn’t break a flashlight over your head because you resisted
I tell beggars: no thank you.
They stand there confused and then I repeat it for them.
They feel awkward and move on.
I’d say it’s about time it got on your nerves.
It was money we paid in on every dime we ever earned. I am not begging for it back, I am demanding it back, with interest and adjusted for what was once called inflation but should now be called monopolization.
It is my money and I am entitled to it!
Telling beggars you don’t have anything to give them implies you would if you did. They are calling your bluff by offering an obvious solution. Suggest you try telling panhandlers, phone solicitors, etc., “no, but thanks for asking” and end all discussion. Shuts them down without triggering the rush of false outrage they crave.
The rise of the entitlement society was a direct result of the good will and charity of the American people and a desire to give people a helping hand.
The end result has been the exact opposite of what was intended. Welfare has kept people locked into dependency on government and a basic subsistence poverty lifestyle.
This is combined with an amazingly arrogant and in your face attitude of entitlement.
No one seriously believes welfare is a helping hand and support for welfare is dying fast.
Unfortunately, the levels of government dependent people are growing so rapidly that they are becoming a majority voting block that politicians are trying to exploit.
Right now the system chugs on using borrowed money but the entitlement system as it stands is not sustainable for more than a few few years into the future.
In really, the system is already dead, but it continues as long as we can borrow 50 cents of every dollar the government spends, but the deficit is just to large to paper over the fact that there are too many people riding the system and too few paying into it so it is going broke.
At some point the entitlement system is going to collapse when there is no more money to pay the system.
More taxes are not going to help because working americans already pay between 40-60% of their income to taxes so it will be difficult to squeeze twice as much tax revenues to cover our 50% Federal Budget deficit.
The lack of money to fund the system is going to leave millions of people who have no education, no job skills and most important, no desire to work combined with an an amazingly in your face attitude that society owes them a free ride without the means to support themselves.
On the other hand , we will have the people who are working hard and paying for the system having no sympathy for people who make more on welfare by not working than the workers who are paying the bills make for their hard work.
Not going to be a good situation.
There are a lot of people HERE who are getting government checks -- and they're just gettign what's OWED to them -- and they don't understand how big the "entitlement" problem really is. It's different for them, you see.
There’s a line in Fiddler on the Roof, a guy gives the town beggar a smaller coin than usual because times are hard. The beggar says, “So because you are having hard times, *I* have to suffer?”
I’ve had beggars call out sweetly, “Good morning, Miss, can you spare a coin, please,” or words to that effect. But when I walk by without giving them any money, it’s, “You @#$%%^ !@#&^!” That’s just one reason why I never give them money.
If I get panhandled I turn it around on them. “I was just gonna ax you for a dollar”
I think if you had gone to the ATM for the guy, he’d have had a gun in your face to walk you back and get more.
You’re understandably annoyed at these beggars but they’re rank amateurs compared to the bankers.
There are no more panhandlers or homeless people. Obama has fixed everything.
I had a similar situation at a gas station once. FSA (Free Sh!t Army) type asked me if I could give him some money for gas while I was filling my truck at the pump. I told him I didn’t have any cash on me, to which he responded that I could just stick my credit card in the reader at the pump for him. Uh, no... I could only imagine what a cluster that would have turned in to.