Comments on: Give or Take

By: oldone

oldone — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:39:01 +0000

I give to the organization to help the group; I give to the individuals for me. It doesn’t have to be either/or.

By: silverrubicon

silverrubicon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:42:14 +0000

You can do more good for the hobo’s by donating time and money to the organizations that help the hobos rather than the hobos themselves.

By: maigh

maigh — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:24:56 +0000

Yet another dirty little secret of our dirty dirty hot hot.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:06:35 +0000

I didn’t know that. That’s an important piece of information to have when thinking seriously about our city’s homeless population, isn’t it?

By: maigh

maigh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:13:20 +0000

First, thank you Will. Thank you for taking us away from our assumptions for a moment…because we all have them and we all *think* we know the story.

Secondly, you mention the word motel, as if that’s what the money is for. In our fair city, our homeless pay to sleep in shelters. As best I can recall (and forgive me for not digging this up and supplying links), it’s $17 a night for our shelters.

This leads directly to what SilverRubicon said about someone hearing his speech several times. So, what, when the man collected his funds for warm loging on Monday, you expected that his house would be magically restored on Tuesday? You expected that what he’s scrounged for to feed himself and have somewhere warm to stay would last him a month? No…his home is till gone (by fire or by other means is nearly irrelevant) and he still needs and deserves a warm bed.

By: james

james — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:21:51 +0000

i agree with rashid. i give change to when i have it. for me their is a religious component to my reaction to this. this song probably sums up how i feel about this the best – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrt-NQCu2ZM

By: silverrubicon

silverrubicon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:10:22 +0000

Ahh, the "fire at my house" guy. I’ve seen him. After he finished his speech, the guy in front of me said he’s heard that speech a few times over the past few weeks.

By: rashid

rashid — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:41:08 +0000

This is precisely why I don’t sit around trying to gauge the veracity of these stories. If I have change, I’ll give it to whoever asks. After that, it’s on them to make the best of it and me to wish them the best.

If they don’t… there is always tomorrow.