Even at $1000 a day, its not worth it to sleep on the street in winter. And then there’s the problem of reliving yourself. Ick..
I was in Psych a few times after traumatic brain injury.
Homeless people came and went the few weeks I was there.
They made between 100 and 200 a day in Manhattan..
The most I ever heard of one person spending was a woman who took a homeless guy to a clothing store and spent about 400 bucks on him.
My first reaction was to call her a liberal idiot and a sucker.
But it was her money to do what she wanted with and there’s worse ways to spend it.
I’d say half the homeless i met were mentally ill and half were in there because of addictions.
In interviews with several “homeless” people here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA last year a local tv reporter found they averaged about $80,000 a year including welfare and other perks. ALL TAX FREE!!!
And begging seemed to be more lucrative than I ever imagined. “
Sherlock Holmes, IFIRC, The Man With The Twisted Lip. Old story.
It’s been a SCAM from day 1, and it STILL shocks me how few even know it.
I remember the “Will Work for Food” signs showing up in the late 1980s. Not one at a time, but INSTANTLY, throughout the country. Remember, this was the 1980s, no Internet, no phones to speak of for the homeless, maybe they’ll see a newspaper once a week, in other words, virtually NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION.
Yet all of them, AT ONCE, figured out that revenues skyrocketed by simply saying that you’re willing to work.
OBVIOUSLY there was some big-time organizing involved with these people on the streets (puppet masters)...it wasn’t just individuals who were ‘down on their luck’.
The one cardboard sign I believed said “My blood alcohol level is getting low; need more beer”.
Most of them aren’t homeless. At the end of the day, they get in their late model automobile which is parked blocks away, or they get picked up by someone else, and go home, which is a real home.
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.
"How many are addicts?"
"ALL of them" was his reply.
There was a sign I saw that said, “Please don’t feed the squirrels, they will become reliant and want cell phones.”
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.