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Famous writer Gay Talese has written a post for CityRoom (he was a former Times reporter, after all) about writing some more timely signs for homeless people. Truly: He replaced one homeless man's sign, which read, "Homeless. Please help," with the words, "Please Support Pres. Obama’s Stimulus Plan, and begin right here … at the bottom … Thank you." Later, when Talese went home, he printed out the plea and created about two dozen signs—"I taped each page onto separate pieces of laundry board (14 by 8 inches) that the dry cleaner sends home with my shirts"—and distributed them to "random to people who approached me for money." Talese plans to monitor their success, but one told him, “I think I made 10 or 20 dollars more yesterday than before. So maybe the sign is already working.’’
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Pathetic. Instead of addressing the REAL underlying issue -unemployment- you stupid American war criminals resort to PR gimmicks.
Monkey see, monkey do.
I guess the concept of actually working for an honest dollar never landed on the black dudes brain.
I guess the concept of homelessness never landed on Snoopy's brain. How could that happen? But that this broke being is a black guy? Yeah. That landed. He's lazy, right? Because he's black. Because sitting in a filthy street begging in the cold, is dishonest?
Isn't carrying a sign that says you are "the bottom" honest enough for you Snoopy? Maybe you should go kick his ass. You know. Because you're better than him, with all that cogent analysis you're doing indoors.
There's no such thing as working for an honest dollar.