1 Topic by simonsiegel

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Topic: Can't stand people asking for money on the streets...

Dear all,

I just can't stand it. I liveth in Washingtoin D.C and I'm a student. I can't stand how whereever I walk people are asking for some change, or if I have food in my hand, they ask for me.

They probably make more money than I do, with all the free gifts they get. I think they should just get a job. It would be so much simpler. They would me more productive and probably make more money that way. God Damnit!

2 Reply by RockyB

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Re: Can't stand people asking for money on the streets...

I'm pretty sure that's illegal anyhow. It certainly is over here in the UK.

3 Reply by societiesfault

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Re: Can't stand people asking for money on the streets...

Eh simon.

this is not a formal attack on you, rather an ey opener. (i've vented all my anger on fat people, i feel so happy now!)

I grew up in South Africa, so i know above and beyond how anyoing it is for you.

BUT. look at it from their perspective. They are not lazy. then minimum wage in America is piss all. at least here in australia its 34.000 a year.

these people have no identification, no nothing. theres alot of legal documentaion for a job, which these people are no likly to have. also, i think an employer is a bit bias about a guy wrinting garbage bin nomber 43 under adress. and thse ppl don't have suits and shit for interviews. they would look cleaner if they rocked up to the interview naked.

What these ppl need are food clothes proper shelter and and education of the working world. these ppl might not even know how to open a bank acount, and probably coudn't.

If we give thse people, a couple hundred buck each, and a proper residence (even a back packers lodge) and give then assistance to get a job. we loan them this money, get them a job, and then once they are on their feet, contributing taxxes and spinning the economy, they pay us back at no interest. Everybody wins.

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Re: Can't stand people asking for money on the streets...

Actually, societiesfault, many panhandlers in America live in very nice houses, drive really nice cars, and live very nice lives. They exploit our conditioned compassion to scam a lot of money off of people.

True, there are some that legitimately need any bit of change they can get, but usually they are also using that money to buy drugs and alcohol. Many people on the streets are there because of bad choices. Others are there because of mental illness leaving them incapable of being able to attend to themselves. As some that's seen the inside of one of those lovely mental health "clinics" I can say that most of them are not too worse off, they're just concious of it the whole time.

There are plenty of shelters and soup kitchens available for these people. However, most of these folks aren't begging because they need food, they're just scamming saps out of their money.

But we shouldn't be coddling these folks. What we need is jobs for them! No handouts! If I have to work for my money then so do they. I support government projects being set up and these folks being trained in some sort of skill to complete these projects. There are plenty of run down houses, busted streets, and what not that need some grunts to fix it. The system you're suggesting will just teach them that they get a bail out and don't have to actually work for it.

Work camps is what we need, for the ones that are actually poor. Just pure hard labor. Send them out to the farms to dig ditches. They don't get anything from me. I tell them if they want their money they need to work for it. I had to work for it, so do they.