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Old 12-15-2011, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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A friend of ours runs a construction business. he hires day laborers, and says he pays them daily. if he paid them every week or 2 weeks, they wouldn't come back until they pi$$ed through their pay, usually getting drunk, high, etc. He said the only way to get some people to work is to keep them "poor" they are like kids, have no idea how to handle money. Honestly, I now there'a a lot of poor through no fault of their own, but many do choose that lifestyle.
It's called addiction. I'm sure 90% of them don't simply love being homeless and addicts.
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Old 12-18-2011, 09:14 PM
 
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It's their "right" to pitch a tent in Duncan Plaza, isn't it?
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