'Affluent beggars' Couple supports family through panhandling...

Mail Tribune (Oregon) ^ | January 8, 2006 | Jennifer Margulis

[EveningStar]

The first time 30-year-old Elizabeth Johnson stopped a stranger on the street to ask for money, she was really nervous. She was six months pregnant and desperate, having just spent seven days in jail for shoplifting books...

Now Johnson and her 34-year-old partner, Jason Pancoast, who have been together for 14 years, support themselves and their three children, 6-year-old Seth, 3-year-old Adrianne and 3-month-old Synclair, by panhandling...

[EveningStar]

Wow. What fine, upstanding citizens.

[FOG724]

bttt

[mikeus_maximus]

Great parents. Way to teach your kids how to contribute to society. NO doubt they vote Democrat all the way.

[ContemptofCourt]

I wonder if they file taxes....

[mikethevike]

The stroller in the picture costs a couple of hundred buck$ I think...they must be good panhandlers!

[BipolarBob]

Bushs fault.

[mlc9852]

A couple of years ago where I live they did a story on panhandlers and some of them said they could make $300 to $400 per day. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. I refuse to give money to panhandlers. I will give to charities that assist them but won't just hand them money. At least make them listen to a sermon first!

[ahayes]

They'd sure better be! They're spending about 30% more on housing than me, and they aren't even employed!

Perhaps that would be one way to get them off the streets--report them to the IRS.

[Clemenza]

Panhandling: The world's fourth oldest profession.

[thoughtomator]

I stopped giving money to panhandlers when I handed out a fiver one day, and realized five minutes later that the panhandler was wearing a more expensive coat than I was.

[HEY4QDEMS]

What diferrence does it make how a man makes a living so long as he does it well. /sarcasm

[durasell]

I still give money to homeless guys.

[martin_fierro]

Hard to decide which is more contemptible.

[Clemenza]

They are four per block here in Seattle and I know where they all live. They don't get a penny from me.

[Blzbba]

"NO doubt they vote Democrat all the way."


Actually, I doubt that slackards like this even bother to vote.

[Blzbba]

"Hard to decide which is more contemptible."


The one with the illegals.

[Gay State Conservative]

During his '88 campaign,Mike Dukakis would have called this "good jobs at good wages".

[BenLurkin]

I tell folks that if they feel bad about seeing the"homeless" -- then stop giving them money.

They'll stop coming around if there are no handouts.

[OB1kNOb]

Registered democrats, no doubt.