I hate homeless people confronting me for money

You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

Just leave your money on the curb, and then we won't bother you.

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You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

Ok, why don't you take one of these hobos into your home if you are so compassionate?

Or are you the kind of guy with "compassion", but someone else has to make the personal sacrifice to actually help as your compassion is limited to self righteous messages typed out on your keyboard? Is this you?

How do you know whether a person who asks you for money is homeless? I usually dress like a homeless person when I panhandle, but I actually have a very nice house in the suburbs.

Maybe if you paid more in taxes, the government could afford to give these poor people jobs and housing.

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You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

We all have stories. NEVER in my life would I think it's okay to bum around on the streets looking for a handout, poop on the sidewalk (and yes there are public restrooms), or leave trash everywhere (can they not even use a trash can?). Put them all in asylums, medicate them for life if need be, and load up the rest of the able-bodied able-minded on a train for a free tropical vacation to South America. If they can make it back here they are capable of finding a job.

Hate it all you want. I hate things too. For instance, I hate a gilded-age system where we have worthless billionaire inheritance babies sucking us dry.

It's just too bad those homeless people can't hound these bastards. Instead, they live in a bubble disconnected from reality to the point that Marie Antoinette herself is rolling in her gilded coffers.

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You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

Ok, why don't you take one of these hobos into your home if you are so compassionate?

Or are you the kind of guy with "compassion", but someone else has to make the personal sacrifice to actually help as your compassion is limited to self righteous messages typed out on your keyboard? Is this you?

I literally said he didn’t have to give them money. When did I say that anyone had to help them? I just think people being unnecessarily rude to others is bad taste. No, I don’t think they should get free handouts, but a lot of them have suffered enough without having other people treating them like garbage. Now go back to your miserable existence and learn to read. Thanks.

1. Re-open and fund the mental health places closed by earlier presidential administrations.

2. Un-stockpile a few thousand of those FEMA trailers.

3. Ask street-living homeless the following questions -

a. Are you from here? (No? Go back to where you came from.)

b. Do you work, are you trying to find work? (Here's assistance, take it or else.)

c. You're simply pathetic, eh? (Here's keys to a FEMA trailer miles from town. Or, let me take you to the mental health place.)

4. Put these trailers in a fenced, semi-secured area. Truck food and drink to these places thrice-weekly.

Recycle/repeat

Having done all this, you'll end up spending FAR less than reactive homeless mitigation costs. You're paying one way or another, in other words. This will, at least, keep some discarded needles off the streets.

Exercising your 2nd Amendment Rights when confronted, is just another part of the 2 million+ defensive uses we see literally all the time.

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Ok, why don't you take one of these hobos into your home if you are so compassionate?

Or are you the kind of guy with "compassion", but someone else has to make the personal sacrifice to actually help as your compassion is limited to self righteous messages typed out on your keyboard? Is this you?

I literally said he didn’t have to give them money. When did I say that anyone had to help them? I just think people being unnecessarily rude to others is bad taste. No, I don’t think they should get free handouts, but a lot of them have suffered enough without having other people treating them like garbage. Now go back to your miserable existence and learn to read. Thanks.

Looks like I touched a nerve.

1. You told him he didn't have to give them money? Do you think the OP thinks he is required to give them money? And needs your permission not to do so? Captain Obvious?

2. I asked you a question. I didn't make a statement about you. I think you are the one with reading issues.

3. So your version of "compassion" in this situation is limited to not making a rude statement? That's compassion? Really?

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You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

Often true but there's a gentleman who hangs outside my local trader joes with a cardboard sign begging for money. My wife was concerned about his safety one cold winter day but the management explained that he has a new I phone and drives a car and makes a few hundred dollars a day and gets free food too.

I am as liberal as they come, but I am against giving panhandlers money. 95% of the time it will go straight to supporting a drug addiction. Panhandlers who are homeless know where the soup kitchens and homeless outreach vans are. They have plenty to eat. They are really looking for money to support their drug addiction. My neighborhood is very generous with homeless people. The result has been that they found a mobile meth lab in a homeless camp under an overpass. There was even a young couple with two little kids who would beg at a busy intersection. People in my neighborhood took them in, got them a hotel room, showered the kids with gifts, got the mom a temp job and helped enroll the kids in school. Anything of value given to this family was pawned. The mom never showed up for work and the kids never went to school. The family got kicked out of the hotel after the parents went on a meth bender. They were back on the corner begging within a week. Without the donations, they would not have been able to smoke so much meth and might have actually cleaned up and got some help from social services.

What I hate more, is trendy hipyoungsters confronting me to donate to their charity to help starving ppl thousands of miles away.

I don't give them money, I give them bags of Fentanyl.

Tough break that someone else's poverty and suffering annoys you for a brief period of time while they sleep on the streets.

I am up and about the city early in the day. I run across many people sleeping on the streets. That is a much harder life than whatever minor inconveniences I have to endure.

Anyways, I just acknowledge them, say I got nothing, and they go on to the next person. It's as natural to them as complaining about minor inconveniences is to you.

I recognize most LR readers, being American, are nominally Christian, like their fearless leader. I feel like the brand of Christianity practiced stateside is largely devoid of some of Jesus’ key teachings, especially about charity. Do unto others...

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You don’t have to give them money, but maybe be a little more compassionate... you don’t know these people’s live stories. Bad things happen to people that they can’t control.

Ok, why don't you take one of these hobos into your home if you are so compassionate?

Or are you the kind of guy with "compassion", but someone else has to make the personal sacrifice to actually help as your compassion is limited to self righteous messages typed out on your keyboard? Is this you?

Wut an ahole you are.

Christians in word not deed? wrote:

I recognize most LR readers, being American, are nominally Christian, like their fearless leader. I feel like the brand of Christianity practiced stateside is largely devoid of some of Jesus’ key teachings, especially about charity. Do unto others...

Compared to where?