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Originally posted by Leader
The same group of panhandlers has been working the ON/OFF ramps where I enter/exit the 405 Freeway. They've been there every single day for more than five years!
I'd guess this troupe takes home more money a year (sans taxes!) than most of the people driving by them in their expensive cars.
I don't contribute.
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Same here. I don't contribute. Long ago I heard contributing change to their outstretched hands encourages them to do the same day after day. Besides which, I need the change myself.
It is tragic though. I remember a time in L.A. when there wasn't a single homeless person to be seen. Then they suddenly cropped up, and in many ways, that was shocking.