CDZ With 9.3 million job openings in the United States, why are there still people panhandling on the corner of Intersections?

[Mikeoxenormous]

Okay so far the reasons minimum wage floors are bad is cuz 'my Daddy drove a Lexus', and poor people are sub-humans and there should be no laws iterfering with making them slaves, abusing them, and having the government make them work for free. And, the right wingers are also 'Speshul' cuz they call gambling windfalls 'investing', which sounds a lot more classy.

Are you a slave? Are you only intelligent enough to hold a minimum wage job and that is why you are bitching and moaning that people who are much smarter than you can get paid more than you? Do you bitch and moan about black athletes who get paid millions of dollars just so they can sweat in a game that might last only 1 hour? Those guys buy up all those Lexus' and Mercedes, and live in million dollar mansions that they could of just bought an apartment around a $1,500 a month...

 

[Polishprince]

Panhandling: How Much Money Do Panhandlers Make? Can It Even Make Money?

US job openings surge to record 9.3 million in April

There are quite a few panhandlers that i see day to day. I have decided to make a new sign for when i pass them.

THERE ARE 9.1 MILLION JOB OPENINGS
IN JOE BIDEN'S ECONOMY!
WHY DONT YOU QUIT
BEING A PANHANDLER AND GET A JOB
WHERE YOU CAN MAKE
SOMETHING OF
YOURSELF?​

Its just a lot easier being a bum than actually working for a living.

And nowadays, being outside isn't nearly as bad in liberal jurisdictions where people are comfortable just crapping on the sidewalks. Setting up tents there too.

Pro-Bum policies will lead to more bums, just like anti-Middle Class policies will lead to fewer middle class.

 

[beautress]

Not economically true coming from the right wing, like usual. The Poor tend to spend and pay taxes on most of their income.

Those the Congress deem as "poor" do not pay any federal taxes.

 

[danielpalos]

Those the Congress deem as "poor" do not pay any federal taxes.

Federal taxes are not the only taxes. And, even the Rich may not pay federal income taxes.

 

[Polishprince]

Federal taxes are not the only taxes. And, even the Rich may not pay federal income taxes.

Income taxes are based upon income.

A lot of rich people don't have much income as they are living on their savings and investments instead of working extra hard and being punished with Financial Assrapery by the tax man. Jeff Bezos- example given- quit his CEO gig at Amazon. Other wealthy fellows like Rush, Trump and Musk all move to low tax jurisdictions to avoid a lot of fiscal sodomy.

 

[danielpalos]

The Poor only pay the taxes they are legally required to pay. Right-wingers only have a problem with the Poor doing that not the Richest.

 

[sartre play]

What exactly is the point of talking about the one(or less)in a million people who make enough money panhandling to live well, why are we not talking about why we have SO many homeless in our wealthy country.

 

[Staidhup]

Ask yourself, why work, mash teeth, cry, and sit back, Uncle Sam will take care of you.
For the most part current homelessness is a life style composed of addicts and runaways. Most if not all public assistance housing projects have a zero drug policy which is why they are no where’s near full.

 

[the other mike]

There will always be a portion of the population who refuse to work

The irony is a lot of them will walk 10 or 20 miles every day for free Salvation Army food.

 

[KissMy]

Ask yourself, why work, mash teeth, cry, and sit back, Uncle Sam will take care of you.
For the most part current homelessness is a life style composed of addicts and runaways. Most if not all public assistance housing projects have a zero drug policy which is why they are no where’s near full.

You are clueless! Public, Charity, Cheap Hotels & Private Housing are all max capacity. Many workers are homeless or live in their vehicles.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Homeless people should be given an opportunity to right their ship. If not, they should be either executed by the government or dropped on a desert island.

 

[DudleySmith]

You are clueless! Public, Charity, Cheap Hotels & Private Housing are all max capacity. Many workers are homeless or live in their vehicles.

That's cuz they don't 'invest' n stuff. If their daddys had driven a Lexus they wouldn't be in such bad shape.

 

[DudleySmith]

Homeless people should be given an opportunity to right their ship. If not, they should be either executed by the government or dropped on a desert island.

those rich guys bought all the islands for themselves.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

those rich guys bought all the islands for themselves.

That's fine, the government has billions of rounds, and untold miles of rope.

 

[Esdraelon]

By not figuring out that Covid was nothing to worry about,

How was he supposed to do that? Was it part of his knowledge base in virology and immunology? The truth is that neither he nor any other "outsider" who was unwilling to play their game was going to be destroyed by whatever means were necessary. The same thing will be attempted if someone like DeSantis is elected and keeps to the Trump base. DC is irretrievably corrupt and there is no way to clean it up from the inside or outside. This nation is in its death throes and half our population is orgasmic about it.

I just hope to be around long enough to see them finally grasp what they've done to themselves and THEIR children...

 

[Esdraelon]

Knew of someone who did it 5 days a week on Wall St in the late 00's. Made a really good living panhandling.
Saw this person on Wall St for years. Then one day, they vanished. Found out that this person had a nice house
on Long Island and would take the subway in every day to panhandle their way up and down the street.

It's been going on for at least a century.

Read Sherlock Holmes: Man with the Twisted Lip
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it in 1891

The Man with the Twisted Lip - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[EMH]

How was he supposed to do that? Was it part of his knowledge base in virology and immunology? The truth is that neither he nor any other "outsider" who was unwilling to play their game was going to be destroyed by whatever means were necessary. The same thing will be attempted if someone like DeSantis is elected and keeps to the Trump base. DC is irretrievably corrupt and there is no way to clean it up from the inside or outside. This nation is in its death throes and half our population is orgasmic about it.

I just hope to be around long enough to see them finally grasp what they've done to themselves and THEIR children...

You've given up.

The bow of the ship is not yet underwater.

 

[DudleySmith]

That's fine, the government has billions of rounds, and untold miles of rope.

You think there are people who will have a real revolution and real change. You're mistaken; that possibility is long gone, and it ain't coming back. Learn Mandarin, and be ready to sell your children to middle class Red Chinese Cadre as house pets for their kids. You'll have to in order to survive.

 

[DudleySmith]

Ask yourself, why work, mash teeth, cry, and sit back, Uncle Sam will take care of you.
For the most part current homelessness is a life style composed of addicts and runaways. Most if not all public assistance housing projects have a zero drug policy which is why they are no where’s near full.

Why not ? they bail out 'investors' and businesses all the time, and with lots more bucks and legal shelters than workers have. That's what generates the expectations, all the welfare for the rich and corporations. Now those chickens are coming home to roost, along with all those criminal illegal aliens businesses encouraged and hired for the last 50 odd years. Right wingers were too busy stampeding over each other to give Reagan blow jobs and begging to get spanked by Nancy.

 

[Staidhup]

Why not ? they bail out 'investors' and businesses all the time, and with lots more bucks and legal shelters than workers have. That's what generates the expectations, all the welfare for the rich and corporations. Now those chickens are coming home to roost, along with all those criminal illegal aliens businesses encouraged and hired for the last 50 odd years. Right wingers were too busy stampeding over each other to give Reagan blow jobs and begging to get spanked by Nancy.

A classic response. I would expect no more from the very people that are the root of our social and political discourse from the “it’s all about me generation”.