Comments on: Hey You… http://www.povertyinsights.org/2012/08/27/hey-you/ A nationwide dialogue about housing, poverty, and homelessness Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Guest http://www.povertyinsights.org/2012/08/27/hey-you/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Guest Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:39:43 +0000 http://www.povertyinsights.org/?p=4385#comment-173 Part of the problem – at least where I live (Pasadena, CA) – is the number of professional panhandlers who seem to gather on every street corner and freeway on/off ramp. I drive a lot in my job, and I see those same panhandlers making the rounds thoughout the neighboring cities. When I have refered them to our local intake facilities, I just get cussed out. Other people I know have tried to give them food or vouchers, with the same unpleasant response.

Those "professionals" just serve to make the public so cynical that people start to ignore all the homeless. I'll gladly give a homeless teen a $20 for whatever, just so he can get through another day. But for those "professionals" for whom begging is a commercial operation, I will ignore them just as I will ignore any other merchant I care not to do business with.

]]> By: lost-in-her-eyes http://www.povertyinsights.org/2012/08/27/hey-you/comment-page-1/#comment-110 lost-in-her-eyes Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:12:17 +0000 http://www.povertyinsights.org/?p=4385#comment-110 Hey…YOU! Yes YOU, reading this……….love me, hate me, or anything in between, but acknowledge me, our mutual humanity cannot be ignored, no matter how hard you try!

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