Speaking of beggars, I have seen the same groups of beggars on highway median strips at traffic lights in my middle class area for the past few years.
These beggars have all started this “work” in the era of Obama. Not sure if there’s a connection there. But, these people are out there regularly, begging. I have wondered if they are truly homeless, or what their issues are.
I don’t give money to panhandlers/beggars/homeless on the street.
I give a lot of money to charities of my choice every year. My conscience is clear.
That's not true. It started when you first became aware of it because it's been going on since I first became aware of it in 1976. I used to see it in abundance in San Diego, street corner franchises on begging, day in day out. Now out here in the South East, the cops just run them off after a day or so ..... and you don't see them again.
I saw an old lady holding a sign in 95 degree Texas heat and I was concerned for her. I stopped my car and asked her what her problem was. (Old grandma-ladies generally don't panhandle.) She said she was needing bus fare to get home. I said, "Why don't you go over to that church across the street and ask them for bus fare, I am sure they would help you." She didn't like that and began to cuss at me like a sailor. She wasn't needing bus fare. A real Grandma who is stranded somewhere would have gotten to a phone and called someone to pick her up. She would not have made a sign and stood on a street corner pretending to need bus fare. Real Grandmas do not like to perspire.