...I wonder whether they do good and wise and eco-friendly things with the money they save or if they are saving up to buy hummers and leaf blowers.


I think that if they are eating food from dumpsters, they are most likely street people.

It is amazing how much disdain a street person can have for society and feel haughty about their choice to live on the street.

I saw a documentary about street people in Portland, Oregon, and was amazed to hear how many of them said they chose to live that way because they did not want to be sheep and live in a 9 to 5 working-class world.

They were free, they said, to do as they chose. The choice being begging on street corners from 9 to 5, but hey, a self-justification is a self-justification.

The most surprising was that they felt entitled to hand-outs; feeling that the people that did not give them money were bad people.