Why is this a surprise? Portland is loaded with liberals. And liberals are notorious for giving minimum amounts to charity. And they basically believe in taking, not giving.
The manager still fumes over watching three college kids pay $3 for $40 worth of food. Generally, peer pressure prevents that sort of behavior, he said.
“It’s like parking in a handicapped spot,” he said.
Exactly.
Also bears repeating and shouting from the rooftops.
If you held a Tea Party rally and offered grilled hotdogs for free, and asked for donations, you would receive enough donations to cover your costs and probably take home a profit.
If you offered free food at an event attended by Liberals, the food would be taken and nothing given in return.
You can see the same principle at work in how conservatives clean up after their rallies (i.e., donating their time and labor to do the work that otherwise would have to be paid for by someone else, to wit, the taxpayers) and Liberals, who leave huge messes in their wake, thus leaving it to the taxpayers to pay to clean up after them.
If Liberals care as much about helping the poor as they do about growing Big Government, there wouldn't be a need for massive welfare programs. But Liberals don't want to be charitable, they want to outsource everyone's human obligation to be charitable to be accomplished, by force, by the Government.