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Beggars face a backlash (Follow up to the F/U of the "Affluent Beggars" story)
Medford Mail Tribune (Oregon) ^ | January 16, 2006 | DAMIAN MANN

Posted on 01/16/2006 11:24:09 AM PST by ApplegateRanch

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To: TC Rider
said other homeless people also have complained to him that they have been making less.

LOL. It is a job to them, isn't it?

21 posted on 01/16/2006 11:40:34 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Owl_Eagle
Alternative lifestyle, and New Math. "Donna Has Two Daddies".

Whatever the explanation, it isn't genetics.

22 posted on 01/16/2006 11:40:49 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
I liked this one:

Samson said she earns what she needs to survive

23 posted on 01/16/2006 11:41:55 AM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Howlin
LOL. It is a job to them, isn't it?

..and they can be their own 'Assistant Manager'.

24 posted on 01/16/2006 11:44:06 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TC Rider

"One of her grandparents must have been a Cherokee hermaphrodite."

And a self-impregnating one, at that.


25 posted on 01/16/2006 11:44:10 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: ApplegateRanch

Perhaps Seanna Sharp should ask jenah Dodge to move in with her.

After all, she's be taking a homeless person off the street and putting a roof over their head.

I doubt she will thought. People in the age bracket as Seanna have been tought that the govt should be responsible for everyone at all times.


26 posted on 01/16/2006 11:44:26 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: RegulatorCountry
"A third? This woman is a pathological liar."

I had an NCO in Korea who went to Thailand on mid-tour leave....he came back and was telling me about this beautiful, exotic woman he had met...she was, "one-half Thai, one-half Indian, and one-half white."

I just told him that sounded too good to be true...in a purely mathematical sense, of course.

27 posted on 01/16/2006 11:46:34 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
"One of her grandparents must have been a Cherokee hermaphrodite."

And a self-impregnating one, at that.

of course!

28 posted on 01/16/2006 11:49:21 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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She said that for a family of five, $30,000 to $40,000 a year is not a lot of money.

What an arrogant fool!

It is, if someone else is working to earn it.

29 posted on 01/16/2006 11:53:42 AM PST by Publius6961 (The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
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"Cliff, who said the most that anyone he knows makes is about $50 a day, said other homeless people also have complained to him that they have been making less."

Well that does it!
What these folks need is a UNION!


30 posted on 01/16/2006 11:55:41 AM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (To liberals, using large words is an acceptable substitute for logic...)
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To: ApplegateRanch

quote from article "Johnson said he likes his vagabond life. "I’m just traveling," he said. "Nothing holds you down. It makes you feel free.""

ROFL ! there is the real truth. They choose to be homeless.

Of course they would never allow you to show this article over on DU, the truth is to scary for them.



31 posted on 01/16/2006 11:56:32 AM PST by conservative physics
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Johnson said he likes his vagabond life. "I’m just traveling," he said. "Nothing holds you down. It makes you feel free."

It wasn't too long ago that we were called "cold hearted" for not helping folks on the street becasue, "Nobody would choose such a life themselves!"

32 posted on 01/16/2006 11:57:50 AM PST by TheBigB ("Pitts. has no chance indoors against Indy. NONE."~~maineman)
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What these folks need is a UNION!

They DO have unions!

How else do you think they keep getting pregnant?

33 posted on 01/16/2006 12:04:05 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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How does one go about becoming one third Cherokee, or anything for that matter? I can do the math in my head to get full blood, half, a quarter, and an eighth, but not one third.

Well, I am convinced that this loser is just blowing smoke, but it is possible to get close:

(1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/64) = (65/64)/3 = approx 11/32

Close enough for tunnel work...

34 posted on 01/16/2006 12:10:19 PM PST by Publius6961 (The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
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"Dodge said she got a medical discharge from the Army because she had uterine cancer. She said the military didn’t help get her back on her feet, and her parents rejected her, forcing her to live on the streets."

Not quite enough inf for any of that to make sense...sounds like BS. And why didn't the reporter verify her story?


35 posted on 01/16/2006 12:10:37 PM PST by DesignerChick
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You're right.

Although the beggars I worry about are those who come in government with guns and "begging" with metal to our heads for mo'monay! CPS with Munchausen syndromes by proxy and other ghouls glad to see kids getting whacked to get more funding pleas.... all for their exploitation programs and dumbing down public education programs ... it creeps me out the most.

There will be a time when we will not be free to give to anyone coz the guberment will have gotten it all and forbiden the practice, especaly towards our own families.


36 posted on 01/16/2006 12:11:12 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Unfortunately, ACLU-types have ensured that these useless scroungers can't be arrested for panhandling, under the pretext that it is covered under the right to free speech. With this legal cover, panhandlers become increasingly aggressive, knowing the police can't touch them.

In Boston some of them jangle their plastic cups right in your face and get in your way as you walk down the sidewalk. I have literally pushed some of them out of the way, and in one case swatted the guy's money cup out of his hand. A 20-something wearing a pair of $150 Nikes and a LaCoste sweater. Just shameless.

Of course, a lot of people here just love them. They'll run across the street to put money in the cup, or buy them a latte and a sandwich from Starbucks. As Milton Friedman said, if you want to get more of something, just subsidize it. For some bizarre reason, liberals love having panhandlers around. Maybe they see it as a career option for themselves.

37 posted on 01/16/2006 12:15:44 PM PST by speedy
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Cliff, who said the most that anyone he knows makes is about $50 a day

That's what I make on a real job before taxes and such. Sounds like he's smarter than I am.

38 posted on 01/16/2006 12:17:27 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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"How does one go about becoming..."

Her Mommy pulled a train. It was a toss-up on who was the Daddy.

39 posted on 01/16/2006 12:19:52 PM PST by Deguello
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To: ApplegateRanch

Look at this first picture:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555515/posts


And now look at this:

http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=BOB+Sport+Utility+Baby+Jogging+Stroller&pid=2044310871563874470&oid=4510661311605780622&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en


40 posted on 01/16/2006 12:56:08 PM PST by Howlin
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