By Jack
I no sooner step out of my car at Raley’s than I see a homeless guy, probably in his early 30s with prison tats, towing a young pit bull on a rope. He was in the middle of taking a couple of bucks from this doofus looking older guy. I hear him say “thanks a lot man ” as he walks off. Next, inside the store there’s a young couple, both in there early 20s, maybe even younger, both tatt’ed, scroungey and unkemp like they just woke up and she won’t stop moving. It’s weird, well, more likely it’s drugs.
She twirls, she lunges, she stretches against the check out stand, she dances and mouths words to a song in her head, she does everything except cartwheels. He on the other hand stands their with a smirk on his face,is eating a large sandwich and dropping bits of turkey and lettuce on the floor with every bite. Every time parts of his sandwich hits the floor I feel like saying something, but decorum rules, and I say nothing.
Ms. Fruitloops asks for cash back and the clerk says she can’t do that with food stamps. Food stamps? I should have known. The young female accepts this without putting up much of a fuss, she probably knew this already, but hey…it was worth the try, it’s all about scamming your way through life.
The odd couple leaves the store and I say to the cashier, “I couldn’t do your job, I can’t deal with people like that.” She says defensively and to my chagrin, “Well, at least you have a job!” Spoken like a true liberal! And now my inner-anger gets the better the better of me and I say, “What’s that got to do with them dropping bits of their sandwich all over the floor? She peers over the checkout counter at the mess, and says, Oh, didn’t see that.” I add, “I guess you better clean it up before somebody slips on it and sues you.”
The begging, the young adults on welfare, the dirty, hairy, new arrivals in the downtown park with their massive backpacks means one thing! The season has begun and they will be here overrunning the town like so many locusts, the burnt out crazies and travelers, they’re he-re…all on the prowl looking for free stuff. It gets worse every year. Guess we better get busy and start building another new homeless shelter, the other three are getting filled up fast.
Why do I get the feeling that even if the economy was flying and employers were begging for help these two would still be living the beggars life? Maybe it’s your description but this doesn’t sound like a couple (I use the term loosely) that is just down on their luck. Instead they seem to represent a segment of society that was never raised with expectations of responsibility or contribution. As you have said more than once the only thing that might get their attention is real hunger. This is what happens when society becomes extremely tolerant to the point of demanding nothing from our citizens. It seems to get worse with each passing decade. Alarm bells go off but anyone calling attention to them is simply dismissed as cruel and uncaring. Why does it not penetrate that this is a societal disease that will make the patient, our nation, very sick and eventually lead to death? Maybe it’s because the left cannot imagine any remedy other than hospice.
Tina, I agree…I’ll betcha they’re not working because they don’t want too. People who are desperate for a job take certain steps to make themselves hirable, these two were not trying that much was very clear.