Posted on 12/23/2017 2:19:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
Just stick the needle in their arm.
Is this satire?
If you like having bums around.
Exactly. It's my money. Enough of it goes to taxes and charities and tips to hard-working people already. I get to choose how I spend it and to whom I give it.
Hey Matt
How much have YOU PERSONALLY given the homeless? How many ave you put up in your house? How many do you let camp in your back yard?
Yeah — thought so.
No funding of bummery.
Still think that was incredibly bigoted for a liberal to say.
I never carry cash anymore anyway.
Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?
So it is OK to hand out $20.00 to that dude with the beard and the cardboard sign on the corner of Lincoln & Pico , who pulls down $450. per day after expenses?
Give the Homeless money simply because they want it.
Does someone actually pay this author so he has money to give away?
Uh, no.
I saw a homeless man regularly carrying the classic “will work for food” sign. Surprisingly, I also saw him doing multiple odd jobs in the same area. I used to use buy-one-get-one-free coupons to get my lunch in that area and hand him the second lunch. He was always polite and thankful. I am responsible for the results of my charity, including any alcohol/drugs purchased, so I only give food - but I am comfortable giving food to those who try.
There are many charitable agencies offering assistance to the real needy. If they don’t want to accept these opportunities because of pride, then they can take their pride to get off the side of the road and off the sidewalks begging!
*snicker*
Odd of me, but I do not wish to give drug addicts a shot, but would not mind giving them some food.
It’s not their money. It’s my money.
He’s basically saying that their homelessness is YOUR fault.
There are city ordinances out there. No sleeping in the street-vagrancy. Solution is simple. Put them in a HEATED warehouse outside city limits. Separate the sexes. No security. No booze allowed.
I worked as a janitor at a hospital to help pay for my university education.
One night, I walked in to clean a restroom and someone had been really sick in it.
It’s a seriously humbling experience to have to clean up someone else’s crap.
I could have just quit.
But I knew that my education would pay off in the long run, and it has.
Sitting on the sidewalk and begging is too demeaning?
Make em clean up someone else’s shirt. That’s demeaning.
My high school buddies were taking jobs that paid pretty good. They worked during the day, with weekends off.
I was going to college during the day and working nights and weekends.
My buddies had better cars and serious relationships.
I was sacrificing for the long term.
If I’m supposed to feel sorry for someone, then let me see their toilet cleaning technique, first.
If they won’t do that, then don’t expect pity from me.
“They have the right to spend their money as they choose – and it is their money, once given”
this statement makes Matt look like jerk.
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