Some will angrily refuse the food, because they prefer to spend it on getting blind drunk.
Do you want them all living to 95 in government funded nursing homes? Letting them buy junk food, beer, and cigarettes is cheaper in the long run.
Most of the folks standing here in 100 degree heat holding a placard begging for money refuse the gift certificates from McDonalds. They want CASH. Nothing else. Once our fine local paper did an expose’ on them and the guy featured said it ruined his “business”. Maybe we should sic Obama on those kinds of underground begging businesses. I am sure there are regulations that the EPA and every other alphabet agency can think of to take every single dime the beggars get away. That would be priceless. An agency to determine the amount of money beggars on the road get. Call it the BUM agency.