Posted by American on February 16, 2012 at 19:23:40 from (173.190.28.112):
In Reply to: O/T Panhandlers posted by 37Chief on February 16, 2012 at 14:01:50:
I remember my mother telling stories about the hobo's that rode on the Railroad during the depression and knocked on their door to ask for something, anything, to eat.
That to a great extent went away between the 30's and the 2000's when our economy was booming. Sure there was homeless and panhandlers in the big cities but most were mental cases or druggies.
Today there are genuine hungry people with no job, very little hope and not much for prospects. Unfortunately, after a while they get frustrated and turn to stealing and petty crime, then there is no going back.
We should have thought this through better before we shipped our jobs overseas and let our financial system go wild and get itself in trouble.
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