I used to work in television news and we did a story about homeless people once. The thing I was surprised about was that a lot of "homeless" do beg for and want only money cause thats their job. One of the guys we profiled looked ragged and dirty and would usually be out on this particular corner for 3 or 4 hours almost every day. After his shift he'd walk back down the block to a parking garage, hop in his nissan sentra, and drive on back to his nice suburban house. We confronted him and talked him into doing an anonymous interview. He claimed that by begging he averaged between 300 and 400 dollars a day. He owned his home and car, had insurance, and with what he had saved after 10 years of begging was planning on retiring soon.
Funny part to me was (and he proved it) that he paid taxes each year.
I've always been torn between thinking this dude was scum and thinking he was one slick bastard who was getting rich easy.
