Another Person Charged With Feeding The Poor In Florida

[Manisdog]

No I think what this mayor is doing is perfect, jailing them would be a waste of taxpayers money as they would get 2 square meals at our expense there, what this city is doing is the best, that way they just disapper


I guess a war veteran gets a pension in your country

We get benefits, but I have the displeasure of knowing some of those homeless vets. There's a variety of reasons why they're on the streets, none are good.

If its Christian charity what's the harm? If they paid and made the food they were handing out, how's it hurt you?

It hurts society by encouraging such behavior

[The Grim Reaper]

We get benefits, but I have the displeasure of knowing some of those homeless vets. There's a variety of reasons why they're on the streets, none are good.

If its Christian charity what's the harm? If they paid and made the food they were handing out, how's it hurt you?

It hurts society by encouraging such behavior

Poor people are part of society.

The free market hurts society. I'd rather stop feeding the rich than the poor.

subsidies

[Boomhaueristan]

Every homeless person in the country murders a businessman, then what?

Waive the jail sentence because better not feed them?

You see they are already prone to crime, it would not suprise, they could be put in for some kind of forced labour but that is the best i can think for them right now

Glad to see your idea of best thing for them isn't charity, or job placement, but forced labor.

Cool.

[Shilya]

We get benefits, but I have the displeasure of knowing some of those homeless vets. There's a variety of reasons why they're on the streets, none are good.

If its Christian charity what's the harm? If they paid and made the food they were handing out, how's it hurt you?

It hurts society by encouraging such behavior

Wait. What are you trying to say here?
It hurts society because it encourages people to be more charitable, or it hurts society because it encourages people to be homeless?

I haven't decided so far which option is crazier...

[Manisdog]

It hurts society by encouraging such behavior

Wait. What are you trying to say here?
It hurts society because it encourages people to be more charitable, or it hurts society because it encourages people to be homeless?

I haven't decided so far which option is crazier...

encourages people to be beggars, it discourages people from getting a job, those people must be thinking of the free food they are getting and do not mind being a parasite on society

[Shilya]

Wait. What are you trying to say here?
It hurts society because it encourages people to be more charitable, or it hurts society because it encourages people to be homeless?

I haven't decided so far which option is crazier...

encourages people to be beggars, it discourages people from getting a job, those people must be thinking of the free food they are getting and do not mind being a parasite on society

"Man, free food, totally worth becoming homeless."
- said no one ever.

[Nazi Flower Power]

Panhandling is obnoxious, but that's not a reason to punish people for giving out food.

It would is discourage such behavior

No, it wouldn't. Some people panhandle because they need money to buy food. If you give them food without being asked, then they don't need to go around bothering other people.

[Manisdog]

It would is discourage such behavior

No, it wouldn't. Some people panhandle because they need money to buy food. If you give them food without being asked, then they don't need to go around bothering other people.

than they would see Beggary as a means of income

[The Flood]

What the fuck kinda reason is there to ban feeding homeless people? That's the most asinine law I've ever heard, and it's downright immoral.

[The Grim Reaper]

No, it wouldn't. Some people panhandle because they need money to buy food. If you give them food without being asked, then they don't need to go around bothering other people.

than they would see Beggary as a means of income

And why is beggary not a legitimate means of income?

[Dracoria]

It hurts society by encouraging such behavior

Poor people are part of society.

The free market hurts society. I'd rather stop feeding the rich than the poor.

subsidies

That charity work is part of the free market. People doing what they wish with their money. The government could probably step in and do something itself, but it seems content just forcing the charitable to stop their giving.

[Dracoria]

than they would see Beggary as a means of income

And why is beggary not a legitimate means of income?

In a true free market, there's no reason it isn't.

[The Grim Reaper]

Poor people are part of society.

The free market hurts society. I'd rather stop feeding the rich than the poor.

subsidies

That charity work is part of the free market. People doing what they wish with their money. The government could probably step in and do something itself, but it seems content just forcing the charitable to stop their giving.

The point was that the 'free market' Manisdog is exposed to, in India, is effectively built on state capitalism - hence why I pointed out subsidies, I realised after the fact it wasn't clear what I was referring to, and in hindsight it wasn't enough of a clarification.

Indian business is still rife with nepotism and political corruption.

[Manisdog]

You see they are already prone to crime, it would not suprise, they could be put in for some kind of forced labour but that is the best i can think for them right now

Glad to see your idea of best thing for them isn't charity, or job placement, but forced labor.

Cool.

That way atleast they would pay for the food we give them

[Shilya]

Glad to see your idea of best thing for them isn't charity, or job placement, but forced labor.

Cool.

That way atleast they would pay for the food we give them

"We"?
I don't see you handing out free food that you bought to the homeless.

[Manisdog]

That charity work is part of the free market. People doing what they wish with their money. The government could probably step in and do something itself, but it seems content just forcing the charitable to stop their giving.

The point was that the 'free market' Manisdog is exposed to, in India, is effectively built on state capitalism - hence why I pointed out subsidies, I realised after the fact it wasn't clear what I was referring to, and in hindsight it wasn't enough of a clarification.

Indian business is still rife with nepotism and political corruption.

It seems that you have an extensive idea on how Indian business is conducted..


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[Dracoria]

Glad to see your idea of best thing for them isn't charity, or job placement, but forced labor.

Cool.

That way atleast they would pay for the food we give them

Your suggestion that every person earn their share, with no voluntary charity or people deciding to go do their own thing, sounds suspiciously like... COMMUNISM.

[Manisdog]

That way atleast they would pay for the food we give them

"We"?
I don't see you handing out free food that you bought to the homeless.

society gives them, if they work for the food it would be better

[The Grim Reaper]

It seems that you have an extensive idea on how Indian business is conducted..


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Us white people don't know anything about foreign nations

[Shilya]

"We"?
I don't see you handing out free food that you bought to the homeless.

society gives them, if they work for the food it would be better

Okay, hire them.
Also, this thread is about a few individuals who give them. Not society, most definitly not you.

[Dracoria]

"We"?
I don't see you handing out free food that you bought to the homeless.

society gives them, if they work for the food it would be better

If individuals wish to use their own money and property as they wish, in this case to feed the less well-off, why shouldn't they?

[Manisdog]

society gives them, if they work for the food it would be better

Okay, hire them.
Also, this thread is about a few individuals who give them. Not society, most definitly not you.

As I have said before, what these few " good" men are doing is breeding parasites of the future

[The Grim Reaper]

Okay, hire them.
Also, this thread is about a few individuals who give them. Not society, most definitly not you.

As I have said before, what these few " good" men are doing is breeding parasites of the future

I'm afraid it's excessively difficult for the homeless to become either lawyers or stockbrokers, even with food aid.

[Dracoria]

Okay, hire them.
Also, this thread is about a few individuals who give them. Not society, most definitly not you.

As I have said before, what these few " good" men are doing is breeding parasites of the future

Okay, I don't think that's what a news story means when it says a minister is slipping them frankfurters in the park.

[Imperializt Russia]

Whats wrong with feeding the homeless?

It encourages those no-good moochers who should just go get a job already to hang around and bring their icky homeless germs into the public space where the hardworking elite have to see them, and heaven forbid, maybe feel uncomfortable seeing those welfare queens actually getting to eat real food!

Really, it sounds to me like the law is an attempt at making the area so inhospitable that the homeless population migrates elsewhere. Instead of, oh, say, taking steps to help get the homeless off the streets? Y'know, housing, job development, that sort of thing?

Why spend all that money doing something that will work when you can stick your fingers in your ears and pretend it's someone else's problem?