In Obama rules, the Caucasian becomes beggar.

Dwight Laird, in his panhandling costume, looking for handouts from tourists on Monday.Yana Paskova for The New York Time

Joshua Long panhandling last month at his usual spot, at Planet Hollywood in Times Square. He sued the police over arrests.

Judge to Police: Relax About the

‘Weed Man’

Ron Martin displays signs he uses to make money begging on the sidewalk in New York.
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Begging is illegal in NYC! There are thousands of dollars in city funds (that we pay in taxes) to help all homeless and poor people

New York, US: A homeless man rests while begging on the street.

Dont give money to beggars as we are only encouraging begging, for every dollar that we give to a beggar, the more lucrative we make begging and, comparatively, the less lucrative we make working. This is bad, for we want people to work, not beg. Working is productive; begging is at best neutral and often a burden and a nuisance. Second, there is no guarantee that the beggar who receives the money will spend it in ways that increase the quality of his life. He might well spend the money on alcohol or drugs, and end up financing organized crime.

But then again, some beggars becomes very rich like my good GNI colleague, our Resident Welfare Bum d2   He has boasted that he is a rich man many a times. One day I will find a picture that has similar resemblance to him.

Even good ole Uncle Sam is begging the Chinese for help everyday

The ‘homeless’ man shakes passengers hands after he talks about how well he is doing

Travelling on the D can sometimes be hummorous with beggars.

Frowns turned to smiles as he told them about his recent successful exploits.

‘We recently bought a house in the suburbs with a pool and a yard in which our dog can run around and play,’ he added.

He also talked about getting a promotion and that he was considering buying a boat, which caused a few of the onlookers to chuckle.

The wind-up was the latest prank from comedy website College Humor.

And for anyone who was wondering why he was holding a cup – it was because he’d just finished his latte.

you need to live in another country cos you are just ungrateful!

You are worse that those beggars......did you give back every one their money for your duck curry fiasco? How much money have you kept back?

You need another hair cut,

That is a lot of money from begging! A lot more than many people get as their wages! No wonder more and more young & healthy people out there  with their cups out

Famed Street Beggar Is A Brooklyn Bum Who Fakes War Wound For Cash

It looks to me like Australia or Britain..

That's why they need these wars in the middle east, so they can get the oil for free.

 So what...we have pan handlers. Only in the minds of those gifted with immaculate conception will there be a world without scarcity. Get it in your head fool, the first law of economics is the law of scarcity.

All other economic formulations from Marxism to liberal capitalism accepts that as fundamental. Minimizing it is the ingredient for economic theory. No place executes that better than the US.

And yes, poverty exists. It is as the bible noted by the sweat of they breath thou shall eat bread. We are not living yet in a star trek universe.

in the Bible? 

And 2000 years later you are selling capitalism as the cure for everything, but things remain the same? We didn't invent capitalism, it is as old as humanity. Humanity haven't come with anything better simply because the primitive minds in the positions of power will never allow these things to change.

Power is about grabbing for yourself something that belongs to everyone and then telling people to beg for it.

 Dummy, my first statement was that scarcity is fundamental so how can I be selling a magical elixir? I said capitalism does it best ( with constraints even Heyek would concede to) because it encourages individual striving. It does not hope to re engineer society according to some esoteric utopian creed. Every nation that respects individualism achieve their latent exceptionalism. I do not know of any place where power is managed better than where the people has a voice. And while we may not have invented capitalism it is formalized as a system accessible everyone in the last 200 years

I know what you say, that scarcity is power:

You take control of a resource that is abundant and make it scarce so you can charge for it and become rich. One of this days we will end up paying for the air we breath, of course if the Global Warming Crooks manage to impose their fraud.

 I am not saying that. I am saying what is clearly  fundamental to economics ie scarcity is why we have ideas about producing anything. If air becomes polluted there will be a tax on the processors to clean it up. That is the nature of things or you die.

Where I live they just instituted a tax to keep the runoff water clean. I think it is cool because I want my environment clean. If they had a fine on businesses as the do in many US cities to keep the front of  stores clean we would not have the crap on the street in GT.

I once had to pay a tax to replant the tree in front of one    because the tree died. I was cool with it. They cut the grass  in the street, use blowers to gather up the fallen leaves, sticks etc and I think it is cool because I like the streets clean.

Clean streets mean no one wants to be caught throwing wrappers etc on it. It gives  a sense of pride.

Do you want to clean the streets of beggars as Uribe did in Colombia, by shooting them? That's also capitalism.