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Originally Posted by 125shifter
I think it's worth helping people in shelters. I'm sure many are being lazy or on drugs, but even so it's still a mental problem that put them there. The few homeless guys I've talked to had serious mental issues and choose to be homeless rather than live in psycho ward.
On the other hand, I don't give money to pan handlers. I've seen a guy working an intersection walk off and get in relatively new suburban!
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+1 on both counts. Mental illness can make an able bodied man totally unemployable.
My experience is that most intersection panhandlers are fakes. I never hand out money from the car.
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