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In reply to the discussion: A great example of the difference between Democrats and Republicans [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the nasty Republicans who criticized me when I asked them why they cared what a homeless person chooses to buy with the money people give them, and asked if they were as concerned about what the Wall Street Bankers do with the tax payer money we all give them.
Their usual attack on anyone giving money to the homeless is 'do you realize they will probably buy beer or pot with it'? So what if they do. Once you give someone money it is theirs and I really don't care what they choose to do with it, anymore than I care what anyone else spends their money on.
But it makes me so angry, the attitude that because someone is poor, we should monitor every dime they spend. So when I give someone money now, I give it in the name of a nasty Repub and I admit, it makes me smile to think how upset it would make them that they simply cannot control what other people do with THEIR money.