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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not just in streets. In grocery stores, on every corner, walking into streets, banging on windows while waiting on left hand turns. You can’t go from here to there anymore without being harrassed. I’ve been in this area about 35 years and have never seen it this bad.[/quote]

Maybe we need better social safety nets.[/quote]

This is so facile.  We spend TRILLIONS on social services in this country.  Including monthly SSI payments to addicts who can be declared disabled.  People are not begging on the street in an extremely tight labor market because there isn't enough social spending.  Our lax attitudes toward substance use and border enforcement make cheap highs readily available and there is no social/legal consequence for living on the street.  In fact, it is encouraged by activists who supply every need and your faux compassion.  And then there are the scammers.[/quote]

There are more than enough social services and charities in the DMV to ensure nobody is going hungry.  They aren't begging because they are hungry.  They are begging either for drug or booze money or to generally scam people.[/quote]

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