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Poll Question: Do you give money to homeless people?
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at the risk of sounding like a conservative Tongue
The very poor in America do have it pretty good.

You can live surprisingly well off what we throw away.
Not that it's good by any means of course.




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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

at the risk of sounding like a conservative Tongue
The very poor in America do have it pretty good.

You can live surprisingly well off what we throw away.
Not that it's good by any means of course.




As I described in the Shred Room, I can (and have many times) fed my family (four of us) on $30 for the week- and we've never done without.  It's amazing how resourceful someone here can be.

I don't know of any homeless person in the US resorting to this.
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Even if I had the money, I don't believe in it at all. I'd rather spend my money on myself or someone I care about than a stranger's narcotics habit.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

at the risk of sounding like a conservative Tongue
The very poor in America do have it pretty good.

You can live surprisingly well off what we throw away.
Not that it's good by any means of course.




As I described in the Shred Room, I can (and have many times) fed my family (four of us) on $30 for the week- and we've never done without.  It's amazing how resourceful someone here can be.

I don't know of any homeless person in the US resorting to this.

There you go, here's a pic of how poverty looks like in my country of origin, Ecuador: 



I'm pretty sure all people in this family would love to live the life of an American homeless...
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Its true, of course Im not saying they have it fine...but yeah in the US the very poor dont have it that bad relatively.

You can legit live off what we throw out. Especially compared to what its like in so many other places.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I mean like why don't they just like go out and by a home you know?

I carry around a stack of large cardboard boxes to hand out. Tongue


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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

at the risk of sounding like a conservative Tongue
The very poor in America do have it pretty good.

You can live surprisingly well off what we throw away.
Not that it's good by any means of course.




As I described in the Shred Room, I can (and have many times) fed my family (four of us) on $30 for the week- and we've never done without.  It's amazing how resourceful someone here can be.

I don't know of any homeless person in the US resorting to this.

There you go, here's a pic of how poverty looks like in my country of origin, Ecuador: 



I'm pretty sure all people in this family would love to live the life of an American homeless...


Pictures like this make me feel terrible for owning anything.

Luckily I have a short memory.
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Detroit.
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Nice avy KoS Tongue
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In Montréal if a homeless person is causing a rukus the police throw him in the cruiser and dump him in the gay village. Needless to say the gays are not to happy about this and an article appeared in this morning's Gazette exposing this practice. Where I live I knew that  anybody who looks like that they are not supposed to be here is carted off by public security officers ( rent a cop ) and dumped downtown somewhere. Thearticle didn't make it clear why it was the gay section. What do gays and homeless people have in common? Am I missing something?

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The cops are f**king homophobes. There's your connection.
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Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

Detroit.



hmmm...

Detroit

A village in Africa where an entire family lives in one room made of blankets, and sleep sideways on a mattress...

Yeah they compare LOLTongue
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Umm....no.
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You know who else rounded up groups of people he didn't like?
 
Oh wait, wrong board...
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Gaya are the dumping ground for garbage. That's what the cops seem to think. Gay=garbage=good place for a homeless.

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Montréal is a garbage can anyway. It's gliding on past glories. Sort of can't wait to get out of here sometime in the not too distant future.
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Today, I gave 1 euro to a resourceless guy in the subway.
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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2011 at 01:28
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

Detroit.



hmmm...

Detroit

A village in Africa where an entire family lives in one room made of blankets, and sleep sideways on a mattress...

Yeah they compare LOLTongue
Uh, yes.
There are parts of big cities that seem to be from a developing country.
It's shameful.
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Points: 15783 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2011 at 08:10
No there really aren't.
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Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

Today, I gave 1 euro to a resourceless guy in the subway.


Resourceless? (Did you make him complete an income and expenditure statement....)
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