I see a lot of beggars; some of them have been doing it for years, and I'm sure that some of them have a nice place to sleep at night. But about 95 percent of the time, you can be sure that the money is going straight to alcohol or drugs. While being homeless is terrible, food isn't that hard to come by in the streets of a large or even medium-sized city; there are three soup kitchens within a mile of my house. But people still beg "for food" anyway.
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