Don't Give Money to Beggars
In my searching the internet regarding the homeless, I find a lot of comments about people that panhandle or sign for money. It appears the consensus is; don’t give money to beggars.
I understand that this is a ‘money world’ for a majority of folks, especially for city folks. And for city folks, homeless or not, the most popular ways to get money are employment, welfare, or ‘operating’. In the homeless community, ‘operating’ is scheming, scamming, or shamming for money, drugs or whatever else is on the ‘needs’ list.
It’s disappointing that many of the bloggers who criticize panhandlers and signers spend a lot of their own time writing about ‘Me’, ‘My’, and ‘Mo' (as in Mo’ Money). Look at there sites, and you often find itsy bitsy ‘signs’ begging for your donations (paypal buttons). In my book, ‘operating’ is ‘OPERATING’, no matter where you wake your ass up in the morning.
Hey, honest is as honest does. And if people can’t find you honest, they ought to at least find you funny; funny like my friend, Terrible T.
I understand that this is a ‘money world’ for a majority of folks, especially for city folks. And for city folks, homeless or not, the most popular ways to get money are employment, welfare, or ‘operating’. In the homeless community, ‘operating’ is scheming, scamming, or shamming for money, drugs or whatever else is on the ‘needs’ list.
It’s disappointing that many of the bloggers who criticize panhandlers and signers spend a lot of their own time writing about ‘Me’, ‘My’, and ‘Mo' (as in Mo’ Money). Look at there sites, and you often find itsy bitsy ‘signs’ begging for your donations (paypal buttons). In my book, ‘operating’ is ‘OPERATING’, no matter where you wake your ass up in the morning.
Hey, honest is as honest does. And if people can’t find you honest, they ought to at least find you funny; funny like my friend, Terrible T.
posted by Kelly at 9:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hear and read a lot of advice not to give panhandlers money. I was raised to believe that the beggar in the streets could be Jesus in disguise & truly believed God could take human form to test people. Unless one has experience being reduced to begging for crumbs, one probably won't understand what a dollar for a hot cup of coffee, to sit indoors out of the cold, while drinking it, and use a clean rest room, means to someone.
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