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In reply to the discussion: If you are in the 1% you are nothing but an exploiter [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The most I ever heard was $150 in a day from a fellow vet I met through a VA program holding a homeless vet sign but that was just for one day, it wasn't consistent though the homeless vet holding signs make more than those holding any other sign including signs like "homeless with kids".
I was in a misdemeanor courtroom one day to see a woman from Bulgaria who had to be assisted by a translator for the crime of trespassing. She was within 150 feet (or whatever the AZ law for 3rd degree trespassing is) of a "No trespassing" sign written in English while holding a sign "Please Help -- 2 kids -- God bless".
Besides they have the option to give the money or not. You aren't obligated to give someone your money, you can say no. It is entirely different situation with the likes of Bill Gates lobbying for more H1B Visas threatening to go offshore if he doesn't get his wish.
I was with you in the sense I've been taken from, stolen from all sorts of poor people and not so poor people. I've been pulled over & robbed at the same time. (I think I have to explain this one)
I was driving a taxi on New Year's and was having a very good night before midnight thinking this might be a night someone would try to rob a driver so I threw a roll of 20s -- $120 total in the glove compartment. With ASU Mill Avenue blocked off there were a row of people on the side of the street hailing taxis, stopped for the first group that got in lights behind me with cabs all around me picking up fares the same way, it was far hectic in Old Town Scottsdale that I left there for ASU because I was afraid of either getting into an accident or a ticket. Cop asks for registration and had my glove compartment open the whole time while he took it to his car to write me a ticket. I forgot about the money and the passenger took it, didn't realize until I was turning the cab in and the money gone but I made enough for a motel room for 2 days rather than a weekly.