Scrooge: And what can I do for you two gentlemen?
Collector for the Poor: Sir, we are collecting funds for the indigent and destitute.
Scrooge: For the what?
Collector for the Poor: We're collecting for the poor.
Scrooge: Oh. Aha. Well um, you realize if you give money to the poor, they won't be poor anymore, will they?
Collector for the Poor: Well, I..
Scrooge: And if they're not poor anymore, then you won't have to raise money for them anymore.
Collector for the Poor: Well, I suppose...
Scrooge: And if you don't have to raise money for them anymore, then you'd be out of a job. Oh please, gentlemen, don't ask me to put you out of a job. Not on Christmas Eve.
Collector for the Poor: Oh, we wouldn't do that, Mr. Scrooge.
Scrooge: Well then, I suggest you give this to the poor and be gone.