Several years ago, the three local network affiliates started drives to collect food for the needy at Christmas. They all made so much attention for themselves, they have since expanded their food drives to where they have one at least Quarterly, and the only goal is to try and top one another for the sheer weight of the donated food they collect.
Same goes at Christmas with toy drives. They try and out-collect each other for the sheer number, size and volume by weight in donated toys, all for supposedly disadvantaged children.
Same goes starting in early August when the school supply drives start up, collecting literally tons of donated school supplies that all of the parents of these supposedly “disadvantaged” kids cannot afford to purchase for them.
I’m betting that every single Freeper who reads these comments has seen the exact same things going on in the city they live in as well. We have this myth going that there are millions of “disadvantaged” kids that need all of this help, but there is never any kind of proof offered that the need actually exists, or that the people who are showing up to collect all of this free stuff actually need it in the first place.
Frankly, most of the “poor” I see are packing around more extra pounds than I am, have a newer cellphone than I do, newer shoes, the latest bling; the list of examples is endless. This is indeed a hoax that is being foisted on the public that still works for a living, and I’m sick of the non-stop demands to kick in ever increasing amounts of largess that I am expected to just cough up with no questions asked.
And don't forget the tattoos. These people spend more on tattoo's than I make!