I’ve been in a position to have to beg before, I don’t want you to buy me an unhealthy meal when I am probably already full. I want money so I can buy diapers for my daughter or medicine for my wife. I need cash to avoid having to raise a 5 year old autistic child in a TENT FUCKING CITY in sub freezing weather while being harassed by the police every morning.



Also food stamps are a thing you moron, this is the ONE THING that is most reliably provided for us and it is the only thing you assholes want to give. We don’t want to be pulled away from what is effectively our fucking job so you can get a good feel spending $5 to give us a shitty third rate meal - $5 that could actually do something for us if you were not such a distrustful prick and just gave it to us instead. I’m so very sorry that I want to plan my life more than one meal in advance so I can have just the smallest amount of confidence that I wont be dead by tomorrow morning.

Not one of those signs even says anything about food or being hungry! People are begging for medicine and shelter and work and you offer them a fucking McDouble and large coke. Of course they are going to refuse! And then you use it as an excuse for why those dirty ungrateful poors might actually deserve the treatment they get.

I have no idea what third hand bullshit information you are getting that pan handlers make $5000 a month but it is frankly absurd and insulting. I am legitimately angry. So my friend who has to go out and offer blow jobs on the street to afford her medication is just doing it for fun huh?



I’ve seen the police round ups of the poor who sleep in tents outside the homeless shelter that is filled to capacity. I know that there isn’t half as many beds available as are needed and many homeless shelters are not fit to server the needs of many of the homeless. I know how dangerous it is to live in a tent city.



And get this, I live in a city that is well known nationally for how well we handle our homeless problem.



You and your ‘different perspective’ can go to hell. God knows that if hell exists that is the direction you are headed.