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Originally Posted by daca55
I used to give to them but not anymore. Once a woman was outside a Walmart begging for money. I gave her a couple bucks because she look so down and out. I did my shopping and when I came back out I saw her standing and she was talking on a cell phone. If she is so down and out where does she get the money for a cell phone payment every month? After that experience I don’t give to them anymore.
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If you qualify for medicaid (low income health care) and food stamps in Florida, you also qualify for reduced-price and free phone service. You get the modern equivalent of a flip-phone (except it's a smart phone) for $100. And you get something like 300 minutes per month phone service, and unlimited texting at no additional cost. There's no data plan. It's just phone and texting. If you're in a wifi hotspot you can use apps, but data options are otherwise not available on these phones.
You can BUY similar with a Tracfone or an AT&T gophone (and others like them) for something like $20/month total.
People need to be able to communicate with each other. You don't want them on street corners. You wouldn't hire them to work for you. You wouldn't patronize a store that had one of them working for them. You want them to hide away in a homeless camp somewhere far away from you. You don't want them even shopping in your stores. But you're not willing to provide them with the opportunity or means to help themselves (like a phone).
The human race sometimes disgusts me.