I was there last weekend and everything he said is true. It's easy to walk around Pioneer Square and the waterfront without too many of them. But as you approach downtown and the transit centers they are all over, including some with tents on the sidewalks. Along with four others, we ate at McCoy's Firehouse Bar and Grill. The next street over were two soup kitchens with large crowds. During our time there, I saw five ambulance runs turn down there. It's hard to travel anywhere there without four or five staked out at every corner begging.
I guess I could be called heartless and not following the Bible's passages about the poor, but I call them "Human Pigeons" - They are always underfoot, begging for money or cigarettes, and defecating in doorways or the alley.
The Bible discusses compassion on the poor, but it also says that if a man does not work, he shall not eat.
Someone who is poor but is trying is worthy of far more compassion than some 19 year old guy with long hair, smoking a cigarette with an armload full of tattoo’s holding a sign telling me I need to give him money.
For that guy, get a job.
About your human pigeons & the Bible
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
deadbeats are nothing new....