Larry
Seems like everywhere we go these days – whether to the super market, to the corner store, to the gas station and other public places – someone has their hand out asking for spare change. I used to give from time to time until I realized these same able-bodied street-smart people were begging every time I saw them. It had become their lifestyle. So instead of handing out money, I began keeping flyers about certain community outreach programs in my car – programs that would perhaps help them to become gainfully employed – and handing them out instead. In other words, rather than give them fish, I wanted to teach them how to fish for their own. I would explain to them about the programs, and even gave bus fare to some who really seemed to be interested. I stopped doing that when people would then began asking me for bus fare knowing full well they were not interested and had no intentions of going to the programs. READ MORE!