bothered

[rlogan 2,036]

I have sat and watch for about three hours, a homeless person collect an insane amount of money from idiots on a highway exit ramp. I will be willing to bet he made more money than I did that day. Obviously he posts there everyday since. One thing for sure, is that he always has a brand new pair of shoes on.

They hold signs up here at the exits to the grocery store parking lots. A friend of mine that is a cab driver knows a few of them because he drives them to the liquor store. They make more than a hundred dollars a day begging, which is on top of their food stamps and whatever else they are getting from the state.

I wonder what my wife would make if I dropped her off for a day with the two kids.

[calibob 73]

Sad thing is you can't tell the actual person in need from the professionals. The ones actually down on their luck or mentally ill trying to get back on their feet again get passed over because of the "pro's". That's why it's always better, in my case, to give to our church or donate to the food kitchen since they know the clients and help those who are legitimately in need as opposed to those who are just in it for the quick hit of a few bucks to line the pocket.

Bob

[rlogan 2,036]

I can think of three people I see regularly. My cab contact says one of them hitchhikes in over a hundred miles. He camps or flops in the summer near his panhandling site. We only go to town two or at most three times in a month. But one of them is usually at the prime spot exiting Fred Meyer's. There's another top dollar position by Walmart's entrance. There's usually someone there too. We use that exit less.

I don't have any comment on it. We don't give them money. We understand they're professionals. And there's work around. Even day labor. That's their gig, and it's none of my business I figure.