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Originally Posted by canuckguy
If the person is entertaining people and making an effort than I'll give up some coin but just standing there or sitting begging? No thanks, never and fuck off and get away from me.
I work in the downtown core so I get to see, hear and smell it all. I think I am immune and now a bit callus now towards beggars.
I use to ask the local outdoors men (better than calling them what i really want too) if they can count or ask them to recite there abc's. If they can I tell them mcdonalds is always hiring and no coin is given. Sorry I am all for social services helping out our more lazier people of society, that is why I pay taxes.
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When was the last time you applied for a job without an address? a telephone? clean clothes? I think even Macdonalds requires at a minimum a resume. People can't focus on that when they have the worry about eating and finding a place to sleep.
It may be easy to say the many of the people are lazy but that doesn't stand up when a huge percentage of homeless people are veterans.
If it was so easy and the social services were working so well then why is homelessness a problem. No one wants to be poor.