You....are a good person. Old FRiend, I'm not as charitable as you....I work too many hours I guess. So, I'll tell you and all on this thread a well kept secret, by 2017, America will be the largest EXPORTER of oil and natural gas in the world..... I have no tolerence for non-working people, and I am tired of going home and seeing some asshat with a "feed me" sign in a county with 2% un-employment.
If the US has such a sunny (hopefully not Sunni) future, the problem will largely reverse itself. Nobody will have to put cattle prods to street people. Streets suck compared to private living.
And they won't be an object of my charity.
But those that can't... I'd rather help in the private sector, where decisions can be made, than start a government program that the deadbeats will take over.
You would make a great candidate for a board-of-directors for a charity. The truly needy would get help, and deadbeats could hit the bricks.
/johnny