[GeronL]

It is crazy.

[CorporateStepsister]

The next time we lecture about humanity to other countries, this can be used against us.

[wideawake]

No, it makes perfect sense.

Feeding bums is a bad idea - it encourages them to keep on doing what they're doing: panhandling, drinking, urinating and defecating in public, and all the wonderful behavior that destroys neughborhoods and fosters crime.

Newsflash: 99.9% of bums are either insane or addicts or both.

The notion that there are sane, sober "homeless" folks just down on their luck is nonsense.

If you had a friend or a relative who lost his home and his job, would you put him up and help him get back on his feet? Of course you would.

Why do bums on the street have no friend or relative willing to do this? Because they have alienated everyone in their lives through their destructive behavior and they have moved on to strangers.

There are much better and smarter ways to help what a more conservative age called "the deserving poor."

[Wayne07]

It seems crazy, but wait until you live in a liberal neighborhood where there are lots of homeless. Do-gooders gave food out in a park near where we lived, and it became overrun with filthy degenerate drug addicts. There were literally human crap in the grass, empty alcohol bottles, houses nearby were burglarized, cars broken into. We'd have to drive the kids miles away to a clean park.

^^ lining up for food..