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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After I travelled to India and Nepal I stopping giving to beggars in the US. Give me a break! We don't know real poverty here. An old lady living in basically a cardboard box invited me into her 'home' and asked me to drink chai with her. These people have nothing and still want to give. Americans are so ungrateful and there's so many programs here for the poor. I will never give to beggars in the western world. [/quote]

Hunger doesn't hurt less just because you have access to plumbing and aren't living in filth.

Look, give or don't give (or give to charities or support government programs).  But I've traveled back-and-forth to India my entire life, and I understand how much worse the blight of poverty is there.  But that still doesn't mean that Americans are ungrateful or not in need just because they aren't as destitute as a homeless Indian.  The poorest Indian is probably still better off than the poorest African, does that mean you shouldn't help them either?[/quote]

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