Name:   phil - Subject:   Money Talks Date:   10/14/2016 4:06:37 PM

Understand what you mean.  My mother a few years back went out of her way to help some people who were always seen around town wearing rags and just in really bad place, they always talked about trying to get jobs and there was always a issue.  She spent several hundred dollars on some really nice clothes and some food and dropped it off for them where they were staying in a run down place.  When she was going to drop off another load a local person from a church told her they had being doing the same for them for years and everything went to the pawn shop till they just quit attempting to help them.

Went by the pawn shop and sure enough everthing was on the rack.

Reminds me also of a story on Fox 6 about 10 years ago about guy who used to panhandle at the bottom of the 65 South ramp at University in Birmingham.  At the end of his shift with his God Bless sign he went to the gas station a block away to get into his lexus and drove to Mt. Brook to spend the evening with his wife and kids.  He had lost his job at some point but then found out he could make 125K+yearly on the street corner so why go back to work.