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Heffy
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Do you give money to homeless people?
#7419944 - 09/17/07 02:33 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes or no.
Why?
I've been back and forth on this a number of times, especially after I went to India, but I really can't decide whether to give them money or not.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7419982 - 09/17/07 02:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Depends on the homeless person, depends on my mood at the moment.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7419989 - 09/17/07 02:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would be willing to buy them a healthy meal but no straight out cash.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7420019 - 09/17/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sometimes. Often enough that they usually empty most of the change out of my car. More often a ciggerette if i just got a fresh pack.
Its just one of those things. A small act of kindness. It makes me feel good.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: breakableweed]
#7421212 - 09/17/07 08:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
breakableweed said: Depends on the homeless person, depends on my mood at the moment.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: zorbman]
#7421284 - 09/17/07 08:29 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would be willing to buy them a healthy meal but no straight out cash.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Brainiac]
#7421556 - 09/17/07 09:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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fuck no. i would do nothing. 99% of "homeless people" are panhandlers with some making in excess of 100,000 dollars a year from poor saps feeling sorry for them. It's a joke, it's not MY job to take care of them. Every person is given the CHOICE to take care of themselves. If they don't, they don't deserve to live. Enabling the choice to be easier is one thing (such as supplying the means, which does not include free money..food yes; work, yes; money, no.), but locally, in the states, there is no reason one would go homeless. They choose to be homeless because they are better off that way..or so they feel. They have no problem getting free money. It's easier to live off of others. Most people don't like their lives away from their parents initially...it's shitty and hard and some never stop disliking it....reverting to relying on others.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7422201 - 09/18/07 01:16 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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umm I dont know where you are, but here in the bay area, most homeless people arnt going to get a job, mainly because a good majority of them are mentally ill.
99% of homeless people make 100,000 a year.
such a crock of shit.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7422210 - 09/18/07 01:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Depends on the vibe I get from the homeless person
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Heffy]
#7422301 - 09/18/07 02:47 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I do if i have some spare cash, it's not like i need it.
If situations were reversed and it was me asking, i'd be grateful for those people who cared enough to give...
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Mike_yy]
#7422317 - 09/18/07 02:58 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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if a homeless guy mad 100,000 dollars a year i dont think he would be homeless anymore. ..ill buy them a burger or a meal,even if its left overs you took home from a resturant you know they are stoked.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: PoppyRider]
#7422346 - 09/18/07 03:26 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Obviously he's wrong on his statistics, but i did read something a while ago saying a small amount of homeless people did ring in over 60k/yr. A small amount though; and remained pretending to be homeless to have their do nothing income.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Helixx]
#7422699 - 09/18/07 08:24 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story about just this thing. To think that even then the same thing happened makes me smile, kinda.
To answer your question. It is a joyous thing to be able to help when help is needed. What i s a couple extra dollars here and there really gonna mean to me? It means a great deal to them.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
#7422945 - 09/18/07 10:13 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Mike_yy]
#7422968 - 09/18/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I give him two dollars, he gives me some knowledge!
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
#7423101 - 09/18/07 10:51 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: sui]
#7423451 - 09/18/07 12:15 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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suimush said: umm I dont know where you are, but here in the bay area, most homeless people arnt going to get a job, mainly because a good majority of them are mentally ill.
99% of homeless people make 100,000 a year.
such a crock of shit.
I agree, BUT I met a homeless girl that likes being homeless. She doesn't beg/panhandle. She works at the soup kitchen to get food and people will feed her if she is really hungry. And if she ever really needed money, she would ask one of the local farmers if she could work for them by harvesting some of their crops.
She's happy. probably one of the most interesting person I've met lately.
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Re: Do you give money to homeless people? [Re: Cracka_X]
#7423495 - 09/18/07 12:27 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, it depends on the homeless person and how I'm feeling at the time. The aggressive panhandlers just piss me off. The last time I gave one some money was a guy who approached a friend of mine and I while we were tripping our asses off in Denver. He wanted some change, he was polite about it and I had a pocket full I had been saving from every time I filled my tank up while driving across the country. So he got a heaping handful and I got rid of the heavy pocket that was weighing me down.
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Heffy
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I went to India last year, and saw some REALLY desperate people, with very serious problems. Some had birth defects so serious they couldn't walk bipedally, and many of them lived in shanty towns all over the city.
They were so aggressive, and needy compared to the homeless people I am used to seeing, that when I got back to Canada I was no longer intimidated by homeless people. In fact I had this feeling like they were just whining and carrying on, because there are so many services available to them here. This has kind of worn off and now I really don't know how to feel.
In some ways I feel like giving money to a lot of the homeless people I see is almost a disservice, because they are obviously using it to maintain their substance abuse problems. On the other hand I feel like I am a big asshole sometimes when I walk by people and don't give them money.
I dunno I thought I'd ask you guys, you usually have interesting responses to these kinds of questions.
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