I currently live off the state but cannot support my lifestyle of booze and hookers. Are there any generous people out there who cannot live this lifestyle but would like to see their money put to good use.
136006
Where there is a will there is usually a way. First you want money to drink alcohol that'll cause heart disease, liver damage, pancreatic damage and generally mess up your body. If that doesn't work then the sexual diseases will - in fact one or the other will probably kill you. Anyone want you dead enough to part with their money? As you have a computer you could write a blog about your exploits. Use MS word to do it. Save it. Then copy and paste it onto a blog site. If the perverts keep reading it and making comments - maybe - you're on to something. Take all your saved blogs and turn them in to a book. Call it "My life as a total Waster". It might sell well - and you could end up in the red light district of Amsterdam celebrating your success.
231942
I feel the same way, I am thinking of going to Vegas although still in the US no state tax, and plenty to eat at the buffets. The American public has been soldout by corrupt politicians. Another place the former soviet union as the monthly wage there is less than $100 so living will be cheap
613145
You can't. You will be always have those who truly need the money and those who do not. Some will be more sympathetic than others. It's a crapshoot. If you are generous by nature, let that comfort you. If you are not, simply do not give money except to charities, who may or may not pass it along to those who need it, like the fakers.
127102
Okay, let me ask you something.  Have you ever gone to feed the homeless yourself?  Have you ever been homeless?\nI have gone on compassionate missions to San Francisco, LA, downtown Tacoma, Portland Oregon, and Seattle to feed the homeless, and to give them blankets.  I can honestly say that many of them are alcoholics and/or drug addicts who don't care to better themselves. \nThe church I attended for several years offered some of them jobs, in exchange for food and shelter.  The homeless that we offered jobs to wanted the food and shelter, but didn't care to work.\nAs for the second part, for two weeks in '99 I chose to spend all my time with the homeless kids in downtown Tacoma.  I squatted with them, "spanged" (begging for spare change), and observed them closely.  What I saw was that they spent their money on drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes instead of getting their clothes cleaned, taking a shower at the YMCA or YWCA, or getting a hotel room.  I saw heroin, crank, and prostitution for said drugs.  I saw overdoses, disease, and degeneration.  I also saw that they were apathetic to change their situation, and that even with the numerous homeless shelters, they chose to stay in abandoned buildings.\nThe fact that there are homeless is a neverending problem, but it's also an abstract idea to those who speak out against it.  They have no idea, they haven't seen it firsthand like I have.  There are government programs to help these people, and they don't take the opportunity.  Therefore, if these people really want to help themselves, they do so, and they don't stay homeless!\nI know this sounds cold-hearted, but I really do feel for the homeless...just not as much as I did before I tried feeding them.  And I have even less sympathy because I saw it as closely as one can.\nEdit:  I commend the people who volunteer to work in soup kitchens, and in food banks.  But just WHAT is the government supposed to do?  Honestly.  Throw some money at the people?  How are we supposed to sort out the ones who want to better themselves from the drug addicts and alcoholics?  There are homeless shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, low-income housing, churches with good people who try to help...\nAnd I'll tell you what.  In those two weeks that I ran with the homeless, I never went hungry.  There were always people giving us money.  I think I made more money in those two weeks than I have at ANY job I've had...and all that without resorting to prostitution.\nAs I said, there are government programs.  They can help themselves.  Throwing money at them will solve nothing, except putting us even further in debt.\nOne more thing, my sister has five kids.  They live in a four bedroom house, and the rent is $850 a month.  Not bad for Washington State.  She and her husband have a monthly income of a little over $1500.  Their electric bill comes every other month and is usually close to $400 even though they conserve.  One more thing:  My sister has yet to use Welfare.  Those kids are well-fed and cared for.  \nThe unfortunate thing, as I said, is if the government put more money into programs for the impoverished, there are too many who would take advantage of it.  Do you know who would wind up paying the price?  The taxpayers!\nThat there are homeless is tragic.  But there is nothing the government can do.
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truly sad people out there living in crappy towns who have nothing better to do than have sex with poor animals, my god, can they not afford to pay for sex or are they that hideous that they cant even get laid while paying...lol   \n\nyou know i am not a rat, but idiots like this need to be dealt with...lol\n\nActually Mr.crowley did not bring it up...that idiot sexysam wrote it in a couple of answers...
500988
No.  Most of the homeless people where I live have a serious drug or alcohol problem.  I refuse to give someone money or help them get a job after I've seen them shoot up on the stairs of my building.  Many of them have tried to bully me out of money while I was AT WORK by claiming I was obviously rich since I had a job ($5/hr).  But I have no problem placing my leftover takeout meals on the sidewalk where they can find them (takes about 30 seconds since I'm in NYC) along with old clothing/shoes/blankets that I come across.  I've had people come up to me at my job 5 or 6 times in one day begging for money because I once gave them a quarter 2 years ago.  I will not establish a relationship with a dependent person in my own neighborhood.  They will never be satisfied and they will always ask for more.
266858
Well never having been to America, your system, whilst different to ours in England does have the same thread running through it so to speak.  Here in Britain it is the councils who create the ghetto's They tend to take a place that has or is starting to get a bit of a bad name and they start putting petty criminals, nuisance neighbours, rowdy types into that area.  The decent people living there do their very best then to get out but nobody wants to exchange houses with them, the council will not allow a transfer unless there is a serious reason such as a medical one, and if they have been unfortunate enough to have bought their council house, nobody wants to buy it from them. They are then well & truly stuck whilst the council continue to put the dross onto the estate. I believe it is for the purpose of facilitating the council's own interests and that of the police. I know this sounds awful but that is what I believe. I am so sorry for you if you are stuck in a situation like that & I hope that you find some peace somewhere
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I have to say I'm shocked.\n\nIn Michigan, police receiving bonuses or "commissions" has been ruled illegal, and against the public interest.\n\nGuess I'll just write it down in my big book of all the reasons I don't want to live in Utah.\n\nGood luck with all that!
594109
as far as getting the money together I'm not sure how to help you, but there is a site i visit from time to time called walkers.org, it is a site for ppl that suffer from various mental disorders, its basically a bunch of ppl that have problems get together and talk about them and help each other through whatever they need. they have forums as well as a chat room, if you would like any more information about it feel free to msg me with any questions you might have, or if you would just like to talk.
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id say keep them money will come...  I'm in Louisville KY- by the end of this summer it will be almost $5 a gallon- its already $2.85+  don't loose it. we still have a untapped source in Alaska.  you know as well as i do that our politicians wont tap it until the rest of the world is dry.  then when they finally do it will be ridiculous. you will be rich.
231351
You have to be careful not to help create an atmosphere of dependence.Remember the welfare system? Now it is welfare to work and has limits and better monitoring.What you give is a choice not a requirement. Be thankful and give whatever you can.Rich or not,$300,000 is a chunk of change especially in an impoverished country. Peace.
81066
I would be drinking more vodka and less bourbon, beyond that I see little difference in our governments. We would still all live die and pay taxes. Life is hard in the United States for a poor person anyway. Lack of food, shelter, and health care is the norm. This is a shame for a country with so much wealth to let these things happen.
435451
I am hard working (a mason) and a Republican.In fact I might even be able to benefit from Democrat control as my son is disabled and I am a single parent .I simply believe we should do our best to provide for ourselves and that this is a land of opportunity.I don't have money in the market but I want those that do to do well if they can then that means a better chance for me.\n Our economy is great employment is great I am at a loss as to what the new direction is.
408680
Hit it right on the head. I was in England a while back and there was an issue where people were pissed because a stripper had her breast enlargement paid for via the health care system. Her claim was that it helped her earn more money. People here (in the US) need to stop trying to get the government to pay for everything. If a person will just get a job they can take care of their needs. People who can not work for legit reasons I have no problem with helping but the idea that everything should be taken care of by the gov is a socialist view. I do not want to live in that type of world. Survival of the fittest or at lest the hardest working works for me.
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Sorry, but I work for my own money. And thanks to the levels of freedom in this country, I can do what I like with it. And that includes giving it away to your version of an unworthy cause.\n\nHave you ever talked to a homeless person? Or some teenager on the street begging for quarters? Do you know what kind of shame and embarassment these people have to endure every time they have to look someone in the eyes and ask 'Any spare change mister?'\n\nAnd despite popular belief, homeless people, and kids living on the street are not just too lazy to get a job, they are not just too stubborn to do what they are told and go back home to live with their parents (for the kids). Not everyone who is homeless chooses to be homeless. Have you ever heard a 6 year old kid in an elementary grade class telling his teacher that he wants to grow up to be a homeless person, begging on the street to earn a living? I never have, and I doubt that anyone else has either. People don't want to be poor, they don't want to be homeless, they don't want to go to food banks, soup kitchens or beg for change either. But it's something that these people have to do in order to earn a living. Most of them are NOT alcoholics or drug dependant either.\n\nSo, get a job, go on welfare or something? Yeah, nice idea. But a little known fact about social assistance is that you have to already have an address to get some money. How do you pay rent with no money?? And how do you apply for a job when you have no address, no telephone for them to reach you? It's hard enough just to stay clean, considering that you don't have access to a shower or anything like that. Have you ever wanted to work with someone that smelled like old garbage? Probably not.\n\nHave you ever thought of what you might do if both of your parents were killed in a car accident? What if you had no other family to go live with? At 16 years old, could you fend for yourself? Or what if your parents didn't die. What if instead, they split up and neither of them wanted you? Then your mother moves across the country and leaves you with your 'dad'. He gets sick of your shitty attitude almost right away and kicks you out on the street because you're too much trouble to deal with. Without ever having graduated from high school, what do you do now?\n\nAside from that, there are plenty of homeless people that have become criminalized just to prevent themselves from freezing to death in the winter. I actually met a man who would commit a petty crime every year around October just so that he would have a warm bed and daily meals inside a prison for the winter months. But he wasn't a criminal. He did those things because he didn't have access to any other way to keep himself alive. He didn't know how to make the government programs work for him rather than against him. And with a criminal record, it became near impossible for him to get any kind of job, even one paying minimum wage.\n\nWith many cities making anti-panhandling legislation, even asking someone for spare change has become a criminal act. Do you realize that it is a crime to be poor? People treat you like dirt almost everywhere you go, and you develop a nasty suspicion that every time the police are around, they are there to do something to hurt you. Besides, you really think that it makes sense to give someone a fine for pan-handling when the reason they do it is that they already have no money?? What kind of sense does that make?\n\nAs for fining people that give poor people money, that is also an unfair idea. It's not against the law for you to give your money to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is it? Who has the right to say what I should consider worthy of my hard-earned money more than I do?? Hopefully nobody!\n\nAnd take some free advice: take an afternoon, walk down the streets where some homeless guy has had the nerve to bother you looking for a handout and take a minute to TALK TO
141050
But - if you have no money, and nobody in the US to sponsor you - how are you going to support yourself?  You will need to pay rent, food, etc., etc. just to name a few basics.  Suppose you can always marry a rich American .. :)
174818
You do make some interesting suggestions. The problem I have is rewarding lawbreakers. I always learned growing up that there would be no rewards for me if I broke the rules. Why don't other people understand these principles, let alone live by them. I agree 100% that Western Union and other businesses of that sort should have a 10% tax. FABULOUS IDEA! Why don't you run for congress? If you're from my area, I'll vote for you. Someone else suggested billing Mexico for any services their  citizens receive...how would you enforce that? It would never happen...how about if every year with our tax return, we get a voucher from the Mexican government for a free two week all expenses paid vacation in Cabo! Not too realistic is it? The true problem here is that IF "our" government wanted to have no illegal immigration, we would have none. This whole Immigration Reform Bill fiasco is B.S. We already have laws that are not even enforced that deal with this problem. And IF they did pass one of the bills currently being discussed, they wouldn't enforce it anyway. So, all of this fighting and marching is all for NOTHING!