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Default Re: Don't Give Panhandlers Even One Thin Dime. - 01-16-2014, 07:00 AM

Showtime did a documentary about this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversa...une_(2005_film) They gave a homeless person $100,000 to see what would happen. Would he turn his life around? Would he use the money to get emplacement? The answer is an unsurprising NO!

Here's a quote from the wikipedia article

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The following weeks find Ted frequenting at the local bar, his spending averaging $10,000 a week. He then purchases a $35,000 Dodge Ram and another truck for one of his recently acquired girlfriends, rents an apartment and buys furniture. The filmmakers then request that he meet with a financial planner. Ted meets with him, but firmly announces to him that he has no intentions of working and does not wish to plan ahead as he is only concerned with today. Ted states his belief that the financial planner is only after his money and rips up his card.

His sisters repeatedly try to convince Ted to seek employment, although he still believes he is "set for life". By this time, Ted has become resentful to the film producers for giving him the money. The film then ends telling the viewer that, six months after finding the money, Ted refuses to disclose his latest bank balance; however, his sisters fear that it is less than $5,000.

On a December 1, 2006 airing of The Oprah Winfrey Show entitled: "Are You Ready For a Windfall?", Ted and Wayne Powers were on the program to promote the documentary and speak on their account of the experiment. When asked by Oprah how much of the $100,000 he still had, Ted replied "none." Ted also mentioned that he is homeless again
Can you believe that? Buying luxury vehicles for himself and his girlfriend too? Believing he is "set for life"? Refusing to meet with a financial planner? Are you seeing the pattern here? The reason these people are homeless isn't because they've lacked opportunities. They have had the same opportunities as the rest of us. The reason they are poor is because they squander the money and refuse to plan ahead.

The reason these people are homeless is because they have no idea how to manage money, and they have no desire to learn how to. Next time you're considering throwing money to a homeless person, just remember Ted, and how he squandered his money. He's not the only instance of this either.

This is why Jesus has made it clear time and time again that He is firmly in favor of a regressive tax. Jesus knows that poor people will squander every dime they have, and that even the wasteful big government with Obama in office can manage money more efficiently than poor people can. Poor people will simply waste the money. Rich people on the other hand know how to manage money. The richer they are the more they know. Therefore the more money they should be given to them so they can increase the wealth even further. This is economics made so simple that even a child could understand it, but not Obama and not homeless people.
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