Posted on 03/10/2019 6:19:49 AM PDT by gattaca
knew this homeless guy who claimed he made $200 on a good day.
I tended to believe him Because when I would see him he would have bags of foodpeople gave him.fast food,pizza and cooked chicken.
Many years ago a news crew from a local Florida TV station followed a "homeless" man to his house. When they asked him why he pretended to be homeless, he said "Cause I make $100 a day". That was 20 years ago!
Just a few weeks ago our priest told us,"how you react to a panhandler tells you all you need to know about yourself". We donate to 5 charities every month via automatic withdrawals, but rarely give panhandlers a dime - and I don't lose sleep over it, Father.
[ There was an expose’ on TV a few years ago that showed a “homeless” woman driving her new car to a spot and then walking a couple of blocks away to panhandle on the street...After a few hours, she walked back to her car and drove to her very nice two bedroom condo...
The TV people stopped her and she did an interview...She claimed she panhandled between 80 and 100 thousand dollars each year and paid no taxes... ]
I am normally against knifing someone’s tires, but in this case, I could totally see being on a jury for someone who knifed her tires and saying “NOT GUILTY”
[ Who says they all live on the street?
Here in my hometown there’s a certain intersection that on any given day has two guys working it, one of them black and the other one white.
Each of them live in modest, small domiciles within walking distance, and they both are out on their station eight hours a day for most of the year, and they are both generally harmless.
I haven’t talked to either of them but I figure they both make good money, in addition to whatever government handouts they get...
Who’s the dummy in this picture? ]
YOU ARE!!!
YOU ARE THE SUCKER!
Imagine if every Tax paying citizen woke up one morning and decided that instead of going to work they would apply the same effort to apply for every form of aid and food stamp they could apply for for, even if they didn’t qualify for any of it...
It would be a Tax Payer MEGA STRIKE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT...
but it happening would be like herding cats into a pen filled with rottweilers...
We’ve had a few of those exposed in our small city. People have become more aware. I think it’s mainly because the beggars are everywhere now. People are sick of it.
"How many are addicts?"
"ALL of them" was his reply.
I drove off the interstate south of Lexington, Ky. and always took the same off ramp. In the evenings I saw the same grey breaded, fairly big guy with a sign that said, ‘Vietnam vet, will work for food.’ This was in the late 80’s or very early 90’s, so I thought I would call his bluff. I stopped beside him and said ‘Get in.’
He says, ‘What do you mean?’ I told him I had work for him and would feed him and even throw in a few bucks. He didn’t want any part of this and told me he would lose his spot. I said I see and laughed and rolled on. He did have a good spot.
It’s a well organized profession, that simple. And millions of Americans enable it.
There was a sign I saw that said, “Please don’t feed the squirrels, they will become reliant and want cell phones.”
One would hope that was Pelosi’s neighborhood.
I’ve seen them work the highway exits and street corners in shifts here in Dayton, Ohio. How do I know, you ask? They pass on the signs they carry to the next guy, and have a drop off and pick up service.
Lois Lerner’s IRA (and ALL of the Obola White House team) actively encourage the practice. It makes evil white capitalists the VISIBLE demon and fascist dictators of “obviously failing” economic practices!
Without a visible, in-your-face (on the street!) homeless population to drive political propaganda, the democrats would not have the propaganda they need to destroy western civilization.
Sounds about right.
The current homeless “epidemic” has two primary causes:
1. The ACLU sued the states to force them to allow the mentally ill who had been institutionalized to sign themselves out. Nearly all did so at Byberry (outside Philadelphia). Within the week, two who had signed themselves out and walked straight into the Delaware River and drowned. Within months, Philadelphia was overrun.
2. Many “homeless” are actually trust-fund children from very wealth, liberal parents. They choose to live on the streets as a form of Kerouac experience. Cities such as Portland and Seattle are overrun with these brats, and that’s exactly what they are. I lived in Seattle for nearly ten years and was forced to endure these disgusting brats with perfect teeth from braces and expensive orthodontists.
Tent City in Seattle is a manufactured, Marxist reaction to this epidemic. They shuffle these “homeless” around from neighborhood to neighborhood every six months are so. Many are sex offenders, because they know if they register as “homeless” (which they can do if they stay in a Tent City) they don’t need to register an address and don’t need to inform the people around them. Some are lazy bums. Some suffer from brain damage. Many, many of them are simply Marxist activists and this is one way they attack property rights and try to subvert nice middle-class neighborhoods.
I did not know that at all.
They are incredibly devious and really put thought into schemes to destroy the US.
The kids from wealthy homes who do this? Hopefully some of them get the read deal from a real street person. Something that they won’t forget.
The ones who sit at the traffic lights at the ends of the off ramps of the highways in my area give me good practice in preparing my .45 while in my vehicle.
Haven’t had to draw on any of them yet, but I’ll be ready if I did.
I appreciated reading your home page, by the way.
You have an interesting background, and your dad sounds like he was a great guy.
Yes, the old grifter’s con is: MAKE THE MARK FEEL GUILTY FOR NOT HRLPING YOU. Pretty effective, as it works the world over.
I especially like the ones with $5000 worth of “body art” prominently displayed while smoking cigarettes
Thank you.
I had to go back and read it.
NO idea why I told people I was engaged twice?!?! :)
Pop was great.
Boy did he have respect for my mother. Didn’t drink. Didn’t curse. But was tough as nails. With a heart.
He was a better man than me.
Boy now I’m misty :) Even at 50 :)
Ciao and have a great Sunday!
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