Making Bratton's Point, NYC Homeless Man -aka 'Bum'- Rakes in $200/hr Begging in Manhattan

Reaganite Republican ^ | 11 November 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Maybe people need to start listening to NYC Police Commissioner 

Bill Bratton when he recently suggested that New Yorkers refrain from giving money to street beggars if they'd like to alleviate the panhandling epidemic brought on by the serially-misguided DeBlasio era.  

Of course he was immediately attacked as some sort of heartless monster by the left with hashtags and worse...

And while I can't prove how much heart the NYPD's head cop may-or-may-not have, he's got to have one hell of a lot more brains in his head than the 'progressive' NYers now inflicting their knee-jerk' 'caring' on the man: handing drunks and other street-dwellers no-strings-attached cash merely encourages more of the same -same as any subsidized behavior- and the fact is, some of them make incredible money at it.

And I'm talking ON TOP of today's generous bloated welfare payments... 

A panhandler outside Grand Central Terminal says he rakes in up to
$200 an hour from kind-hearted New Yorkers.

And the 43-year-old former theater stagehand is only one of a legion of beggars in the city hauling in big bucks and a smorgasbord of food doing nothing but sitting on the sidewalk with hands out.

'On a Friday morning, I make $400 in two hours,’’ said Will Andersen, who was with his 9-year-old dog, Rizzo, on East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Madison avenues on Tuesday.

As Andersen was talking to The Post, another beggar told him gleefully,
'I got three breakfast sandwiches today! And they were all meat!
I’m putting on pounds out here!'...

'There are other spots where people get hundred-dollar bills. I could go over to Fifth Avenue and make $150 before lunch'

But I learned two things myself when I used to live in Los Angeles:
Bill Bratton is a superb cop and leader who knows what he's talking about...
the man did a great job out there- at least that's my recollection.

The other lesson deduced was that the homeless I handed a buck or two upon arrival to Santa Monica/Venice in 1990 were often seen almost every day around the neighborhood, even hitting-me-up again without having any idea they just got money from me the very day before.

I also noticed they where living the life: free (great!) lunches at the Santa Monica town hall, perfect weather to live rough in, etc. They also had cars in many cases, taking every single parking space on the street for days and weeks as they slept and lived in them. When a cop came, they just moved to another spot... even if they had to push it.

The 'homeless' often hung out at a the beach all day, dealt in drugs, were always stoned, parked for free, used a free clinic, ate mostly for free, then surfed and drank the day away while panhandling and also taking a government check.

And their personal monthly overhead costs closely approximated zero. 

Nice racket if you're shameless -and dishonest- enough to live such a way... and many are, until you gather the courage and pragmatic common-sense tell them 'no' on both the panhandling and the government level: there are very few people in this country lacking access to generous welfare support.

Or they could try something new + different, like a job- an option that probably doesn't look all that inviting to them when they can make two-hundred-bucks and hour mooching money from the unthinking (while collecting government largesse)- so unless it's an old lady digging through a garbage can, I don't give them a dime.

New York Magazine   NY Post 

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[Timpanagos1]

Things are only worth what someone’s willing to pay.

[loungitude]

A bum hit me up in NOLA a while back. She said “I need money to go to the hospital!”.
I said “Good luck.”.

[Rummyfan]

Pretty damn good income. Tax free too!

[SamAdams76]

I commute regularly through Grand Central and it's amusing to see the same cardboard signs being used by different people. In the morning it's one person and on my way back home, it's somebody totally different but the same exact sign. It's like they work in shifts and they hand the sign to somebody else when they leave.

I've never given them a dime. But I do sometimes drop a dollar or two into the violin case of this string quartet that often plays in the Lexington St. Passage. I have no problem with tipping performance artists. But if you are just going to sit on the sidewalk with a cardboard sign, forget about it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

She said, "I need money to go to the hospital!".

No she doesn't. Anyone without the means can get treatment at the ER, gratis. Illegals do it all day long.

[Reaganite Republican]

There are certainly signs it’s organized- that’s how it is with the gypsies in London, 100% structured there actually

[Reaganite Republican]

There used to be these guys who hung outside the LA Int’l Auto Show every year and walked up to those attendees they thought to be rubes with a broken fan belt in their hand, ‘I am desperate’, pregnant wife in the car, etc.

I seen it, same thing three years straight lol

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I had a lady in a Wal-mart parking lot come up to me and tell me she needed $2 for a cup of coffee. I looked up, saw a Mickey D’s and told her to follow me up there and I’d buy her one.

She never showed.

[butlerweave]

We have them here with signs saying , “Bad Heart and Hungry” ,but we have welfare and Free Health care and people still give them money . One lives in a big house with 3 cars right next to where she begs

[ETL]

Yuppies and tourists are the most gullible and naive. They are very easily manipulated by scam artists.

[ETL]

...rich hypocrite libs hold on to their money very tightly.

[Mike Darancette]

Always thought that you could do pretty well begging if you played the accordion badly and had a little old dog with cataracts that howled on cue.

[verga]

'On a Friday morning, I make $400 in two hours,’’ said Will Andersen, who was with his 9-year-old dog, Rizzo,

There used to be a couple that took turns sitting with the dog at the intersection of 81 and 11. They had a sign that said the dog needed food. One day I stopped and told him that I would give him $25 if he would give me the dog. The last time I heard language like that was in boot camp.

[Bob434]

[[She said “I need money to go to the hospital!”.]]

Should have said “Hospitals take walk-ins who can’t pay. Have an nice day”

[OregonRancher]

Jose and Jesus were street beggars. Jose always brought home
more than Jesus, so Jesus asked Jose “how come?”

Jose showed Jesus his sign’

“Ten more dollars and I can go home to Mexico”

[cyclotic]

I’m the same way. An artist is doing something. There’s a guy in DC who drums a bunch of 5 gallon pails and a shopping cart.

He gets money.

Most handout bums are nearby to places of employment and have a couple grand worth of “body art” and smoking cigarettes. Can’t be too poor.

[mumblypeg]

There was a t-shirt vendor in the Bay Area a few years ago, who sold a shirt emblazoned with the words, “No, I Don’t Happen to Have Any Spare Change.”

[Reaganite Republican]

Maybe we should start a nationwide business renting out dogs -or children- to the beggars by the hour.

We could even offer an iPhone app for it, most of these guys have smart phones they bought with their welfare checks probably anyway