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So me and my friend go to Wendy's for lunch and we run into this guy and strike up a random conversation about football. While me and my friend talk about current news he is talking about the old days. Come to find out he has been homeless for about 22 years. He had a house here and there but never really steady.

Get this, you know how his life "fell apart" his wife left him with the kids. Seriously he said, "Well after she left me, it was like having that bad day for the rest of my life."

He went on to tell us about how homeless life is. We bought him some lunch and talk for about an hour. Man I feel so fucking sorry for this man and I normally have no type of sympathy for anyone.
 
Whereas most people who do not even attempt to better their own lives get no sympathy from me, for some reason, homeless people strike a chord. Nearly every time I take a visit to NYC and eat lunch there, I take some out and give it to the first homeless person I see. It is personally rewarding, although the bums invariably always greedily accept it, I rarely get a thank you. Matters not. Once it even got me laid (by a girl who saw my good deed, not the hobo, you jackasses.)
 
:lol2: You got hustled out of a meal. He'll probably feed that same sop-story to the next sorry sap at Taco Bell.

But hey...helping someone is never a bad thing. Especially when that person is more needy than you.
 
Stop, before you post again. Use that mighty brain cell you have left, turn off the computer, grab a gun, turn it around, and do what comes naturally.
 
:yeahthat:

Anyway, I've been homeless before for a few months. Right after I dropped out of college. I could have moved back home with my parents, but I was too proud. Luckily I had a good enough support network among my college buddies that I had somewhere to sleep every night. You know what I did? I got my act together, found a shitty job, found an apartment that I could barely afford with my shitty job, and got myself back on my feet.

I have no sympathy for the homeless. Most of them use every penny they manage to get their hands on to buy drugs or liquor. You could hand a homeless person $1000 (more than enough to start getting yourself back on track in most situations) and 9 times out of 10 they would drink/get high until they OD'd or wasted it all.

The reason homeless people are homeless is because they have no one who is willing to help them. That means they were either too much of an asshole to have any decent friends, or they burnt all their bridges with any friends/family they ever did have. They deserve no sympathy. Any help you offer a homeless person, they will squander selfishly. They have no desire to be a productive member of society, or they WOULD be one.

That may seem like a harsh position on the matter, but in my experience it is all true. It also doesn't stop me from giving a dollar to the homeless drunk who hangs out around the workshop where I work from time to time.
 
Or just maybe they had no fucking friends and shitty parents, which isn't all that uncommon. Also it is funny you consider yourself a homeless person when you were just too proud an ass to take your parents help. The difference between them and you is that you had someone as where you pointed out that they don't.

You choose to be homeless (by dropping out). Not all other homeless people are like you. Not saying a lot of them don't just piss away their money, just that the majority is not like that.

Plus the most money a homeless person can pull in the day is about 20 bucks. What else are you going to do, start a fucking trust fund or savings account? Listen, sometimes shit happens. Better to drink and numb away the pain than to sit there struggling sober.

Is life worth living when your living in hell?
 
Some homeless people might spend $1000 on drugs, some might use it to get back on track. You can't put all homeless people into the same generalization.

This is what Republicans try to stay away from. They don't help out the poor with money problems because we believe if you give money to the rich, you create more rich, give money to the poor, create more poor.

The rich use money to open up businesses and save it, the poor will spend it on bullshit and still not get a job.

But enough with the Government lesson, I have a story. It's kinda pointless though, but still.

Today me and my friend rode our bikes to Jack in the Box because we had a bad day and we wanted some junk food really badly. So we get there, park our bikes, and order our food. Meanwhile, a homeless lady comes in, and my friend says she trippin' on something, but I'm not sure. She takes about 5 minutes to count all of her money and stuff, and a guy who needed his food to-go was being really impatient and tapping his foot and stuff. I still don't know whether she had trouble counting or if she really was high on drugs, but I felt sorry for her. Oh well.
 
If a person who has absolutely no friends that would be willing to help them out, There's probably a reason for it. Most likely, they're a thief, or some other sort of criminal, or they have just taken advantage too many times and never got their shit together.

A very small percentage might have a legitimate problem that forces them into the homeless lifestyle. Some disability that keeps them from being able to do any work, or just really shitty luck. But I don't believe that's your average homeless guy.
 
There's a guy who lives in this city who collects cans and bottles, and makes a lot of money from it. (400+ dollars a day)

He lives in a 500,000 dollar home, completely tax free, earned by his bottle collecting.

He looks homeless, but he really isn't.
 
See? anyone could do this if they wanted to make the effort. You can make enough money to get yourself back on your feet. Also, alot of cities have centers where you can go to get work for a day and get paid for it, in cash, that day. It's going to be the shittiest work you can imagine, but it's minimum wage, and it's more than enough for people who know how to feed themselves on a few dollars a day.
 
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