Homeless People / Beggers
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
I travel everywhere and man I don't know what's been happening lately but I am constaly getting harassed by homeless people or people looking for handouts lately. In small towns too, but just big cities. Probably quadruple what I usually see in the past two months and man are they getting aggressive.
The other day I was filling my car with gas in the middle of nowhere and I huge guy comes up dressed decently with a ton of professional tats asking for money.
Two drunk bums blocked stood in front of my car the other day and would let me through until I got out and bitched.
Anyone else notice this trend lately?
The other day I was filling my car with gas in the middle of nowhere and I huge guy comes up dressed decently with a ton of professional tats asking for money.
Two drunk bums blocked stood in front of my car the other day and would let me through until I got out and bitched.
Anyone else notice this trend lately?
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Democrats depend on those people looking for handouts.
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But over all it goes back much further, to the beginnings of Capitalism in the 1600's.
And then the first welfare payments were established to try and cut down on the number of panhandlers. Welfare has always been intended to regulate the poor:
https://www.amazon.com/Regulating-Poor-F…
With each one of Dougster's Boom and Bust cycles, more and more people are thrown into the very most tenuous of employment. So they say that more than 1/2 of the population is only 2 pay checks away from defaulting on rent of mortgage.
Once Reagan took us off of Keynesianism, the economic system which had worked very well for 40 years, we started to become more and more like a 3rd world country. And it gets worse every year.
http://peoplestribune.org/pt-news/2016/1…
Here in Santa Clara County it is said that we have the 4th largest homeless population in the entire country, and the official counts are a gross undercount, and the numbers are growing, and the largest component is homeless working families.
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And what kind of places is this happening in, front of super markets? Downtown in big cities?
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If it wasn't for the money homeless would probably be a good life. I used to think of just taking a $120k or so and a year and traveling around the country. Kind of regret I don't do it a while. Maybe one day...
1) Panhandlers have been hitting up strippers too. One stripper bought beggar a large sub at a nearby Subway in lieu of just handing over $.
2) Some have gotten more creative. One ruse on a crowded night in one club was to wave at cars coming in, directing one to parking spot, and then coming up to car and asking for money. Of course I knew that parking was free so I said no dice. I made sure to inform mgr/bouncer when I entered club so that other patrons wouldn't get conned. My civic duty for the night....
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Good luck as in being born into a family that gives a shit about your education and future?
What I read is that if Trump took his inheritance and invested in index funds, he'd be worth $12B, adjusted for inflation. Savvy business man, no? Wealth begets wealth.
I think these homeless people are just lazy. You could take any homeless heroin or meth addict and train them for a career in quantitative finance. All those jobs going unfilled. Lazy fucks...
RandomMember, brilliant idea to train homeless addicts as quants! ;)
We'll see how many homeless there are in 4 years.
OSU, are you absolutely certain that you've never tipped, or bought dances/VIPS from a stripper who has a habit ? Or is supporting a BF who does ?
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Our society squeezes many people out because:
1. Slow economy.
2. Our economic system is completely unworkable, so the last thing we need is another boom and bust cycle.
3. Because the middle-class family exists to exploit children. Then Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, The Recovery Movement, Evangelical Religion, and most Gov't Social Service Programs exist to convince the survivors that the fault is all theirs.
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In this mix is something I consider to be a menace, the Evangelical Christians, always there trying to convince the homeless that they suffer from their own deficiencies.
I am always telling them, "If someone has been treated with dignity and respect, and allowed to develop and apply their abilities, then it is very unlikely that they would have any serious problem with drugs or alcohol, or have any real difficulties in pursuing a suitable career. You have to look to the parents, if you want to understand how someone's life can be shattered."
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Counts himself as a Libertarian Marxist.
One of the last chapters of this talks about such:
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Totally organized gypsy-type scam.
I also see an alarming number of panhandlers working within restaurants. They will walk up to a table and not say anything but display a small sign begging for money or even place a card on the table in front of you.
Welfare money is intended to regulate the poor, not to provide for their needs. But we need to have it. So Citizenship Pay would seem to be the only answer.
And like I've been trying to say, if someone has been treated with dignity and respect and allowed to develop and apply their abilities, then the chances that they will be one of those shut out are much lower. So if you see people who's lives have fallen apart, look to their parents and hold the parents financially accountable. The US is just about the only industrialized country which allows one to disinherit their child. We must change this, because it legitimates child abuse.
Capitalism has always depended upon having scapegoats. We used to get these in the immigrants and racial minorities who did low wage labor and slave labor.
But today there is far less need for any kind of labor. So today Capitalism gets its scapegoats directly from the middle-class family. And most middle-class child abuse involves doctors of one type or another. So the scapegoating involves the fallacies of mental illness, or things like Autism, Aspergers, ADHD, or Eating Disorders. What this is, is the resurgence of the bogus sciences of Social Darwinism and Eugenics.
We must put these doctors out of action. Crimes Against Humanity prosecution would be best. Other counties have the laws which will facilitate such prosecution. And then we must hold the parents financially accountable, as this is the only language they will ever understand.
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I like the looks of them, but I would prefer them in higher heels and overall a more slutty look.
We should be showing people how it is financial types like Dougster, and morons like Gassagain, who are the real parasites.
And this is why it is so important to get the poor to stand up for themselves, and to use ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
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Brian Eno
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TJ School Girls
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At a Starbucks I hang out at I used to see this young guy (early/mid 20s) pull up to one of the doors, leave his car running, head inside and ask people for "gas $$$", seems he did it on a regular basis b/c I saw him at least on 5 different occasions if not more and I was not at that Starbucks every day (maybe 2 or 3x per week) - I also saw him doing the same thing 2 businesses over at a Chipotle - and the guy was brash, he would not even ask in a humble way.
I remember twenty years ago, you'd see bums here and there, but now they are everywhere. Driving to work, I come in contact with about twenty-five at twenty-five different intersections.
Are there really this many drug addicts and mentally ill people out there?
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