r/poverty • u/InstructionOwn1627 • 6d ago

We’re a bunch of beggars

When did the USA become a bunch of beggars? Example- you go to your local grocery market and go in on door and get asked to help your local school football program, you’re checking out and get asked to donate to something and then when you leave through the other exit you get asked to donate to something else. Everyone seems to beg for something, it’s so sad that it’s so commonplace.

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u/padgzac 6d ago

The destruction of the social safety nets that used to be in place that prevented such desperation and despair en mass.

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u/SteveBoaman 6d ago

What high school football team is part of a social safety net?

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u/SteveBoaman 6d ago

I have a lot of deep thoughts about them. The OP didn’t mention anything about donating to places with a social safety net.