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There used to be no panhandlers in my home town.

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.

I'm with you. Way back in graduate school (mid 1980's), I submitted a paper on the supply side for poverty. It actually got passed around to some of the other profs in the department. Two of them, of the more liberal persuation, were highly insulted and called me before a committee to defend my research and methodology. I was allowed to select one of my choosing to be on the committee.

It was scary as hell as I had no idea of the political persuations of the profs. I took a risk on one who taught a class which I thought was fair minded. The risk paid off. Not only was I exonerated, but I ended up being commended for my courage to take on such a topic in a unique way.

This was at a state university in one of the more liberal states in America. Maybe I just got lucky.

Bottom line is that if you want to do something charitable, donate time, material or money to a reputable organization which helps the people you want to target. For example, in my case, I have a soft spot for military veterans and trust the VFW.

Around my vicinity within a 2 block radius of my own parish church, I NEVER give to these bums. Why? My church gives more food to them twice a week. I donate to my parish. Follow the trail..

There used to be no panhandlers in my home town. But idiots started giving them money.

Just wondering -- if there were no panhandlers, then to whom were the idiots giving money?

One of those conundrums, I guess -- which came first, the panhandler or the idiot?