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ping for later.
Even though I pinged for later, I had to say “Good Grief” when I scanned the article.
But idiots started giving them money.
Now there is a market for it, so there are people there filling the ‘demand’.
Young guys with tattoos and piercings accost single working mothers for “spare change”.
I mock them and say “Spare change for my next piercing?”.
And I cannot express sufficiently my contempt of idiots who go abroad and give to blind beggar children.
Great! You just created a market for blind beggar children! And if there are not enough to fill the ‘demand’ they will CREATE some!
Wow, see how much your spare change can accomplish? You just got acid poured into a child's eyes and condemned them to a life of slavery and begging without any sight. I hope such people feel REAL PROUD of themselves for being so “charitable”. Idiots.
This dude thinks way too much, although sadly unequipped to do so.
Mind numbingly stupid opening. People are poor because of many reasons, almost never because of society. That being said, I never give money, I do give food occassionally for the very rough looking ones. Never money though, I know where it goes.
Societies are neither merciless or merciful. INDIVIDUALS are. Just as individuals are responsible or irresponsible ... sometimes responsible enough to see after their own needs and sometimes not.
Not everyone who is needy is so because of irresponsibility, but he is darned sure not there because of anything I did. Therefore, I have no moral, legal, or social liability for his well-being. Anything I give, I CHOOSE to give. Anything else is simply robbery.
The first sentence says it all.
The natural state of humans is poverty. Prosperity is due to society.
Writer is foolish.
I always ask “how much do you need to get the next bottle”? They always know right down to the penny.
Societies are neither merciless or merciful. INDIVIDUALS are. Just as individuals are responsible or irresponsible ... sometimes responsible enough to see after their own needs and sometimes not.
Not everyone who is needy is so because of irresponsibility, but he is darned sure not there because of anything I did. Therefore, I have no moral, legal, or social liability for his well-being. Anything I give, I CHOOSE to give. Anything else is simply robbery.
If most people that “panhandle” spend as much time looking for a job as they did panhandling....they wouldn’t need to panhandle, because they would be employed. Even working at Taco Bell has to pay more than sitting on the side of the road all day begging for Federal Reserve Notes.
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—When someone is holding a sign at a freeway off ramp, I drive by without helping that person. I send that person good thoughts. However, I do not want to create a hazardous situation that could cause a car accident. You are not doing anyone a favor when you block traffic to give to a panhandler, especially when this causes a car accident that could entail someone getting injured. —
When I lived in seattle, that was my motto. Interestingly, when someone did stop to help and the light was green, I would go around them if possible. One of those people I went around mustered real road rage against me. It would have been funny (the irony and all) if it were not so serious.
Now, when someone does it, I just lay on the horn, and keep it on, until they move. But it is not an issue where I live now. That scam doesn’t exist here. Yet.
This can’t be Berkeley, CA because it’s a violence-free, smoke-free, junk food-free utopia.
I never give money.
I always offer food.
Right thing to do.
When I see a panhandler, I see somebody who managed to piss off every relative or friend that ever cared about them. Why wouldn’t they go to them for help? Because they were too prideful, and wound up burning all of their bridges.
“, ever since people were put in poverty by a society that sometimes lacks mercy.”
Capitalism’s fault again!
99 times out of 100 I won’t give money to panhandlers. But I always make an attempt at eye contact when I refuse.
A few years back, the do-goodniks in San Antonio decided to build a hundred million dollar homeless shleter.
That’s right. You read it correctly. $100,000,000.00
The homeless people don’t appreciate it. But it did accomplish one predictable goal:
It INCREASED the number of bums begging on the streets in San Antonio.
I often think about what I would do if I found myself in dire circumstances. In no scenario do I ever see myself standing on a street corner begging for spare change. I would take any job before begging in the street, be it working at McDonalds or pumping gas. If things were truly so bad that I could not find a job anywhere, I would probably go to the dirtiest section of town with a broom and a few trash bags and hang a sign that I am unemployed but will be cleaning up the streets and would appreciate any donations for my service. Then I'd get busy sweeping the street and filling the trash bags with litter.
I bet that approach would coax a lot of quarters and dollar bills out of passers-by and maybe even one of the local business owners will come out and personally offer me a job for my initiative.
On my last visit to my Daughters and Granddaughters in San Berdoo, Kalifornia, I would see teams of these moochers at every strip mall, 7/11, grocery store or where ever. Their clothes, although shabby, were clean, as they were. They probably live better than I do!
Several years ago they busted a guy who was pulling in two to three hundred dollars a day by holding a sign that said “WILL WORK FOR FOOD”.
