Timothy Birdnow

In the last couple of months I've noticed a big increase in the number of people panhandling along busy roads in the greater St. Louis area. Now panhandlers are common in the core of the city but I'm seeing them out in reasonably affluent suburban areas (like around the spot where my wife's nursing facility resides) and I am quite suspicious.

Why? Rush Limbaugh used to play this little game, pointing out how "homelessness" always seemed to grow when Republicans were in power and disappear when Democratswere in charge. It was like Shazam! Homelessness was immediately solved when the Donkeys came into office. And they seemed to come out from whatever hidey-hole they were in during Republican administrations.

At any rate I used to work in real estate and got all over the metropolitan area and saw panhandlers of every stripe. There are two categories - the organizations asking for donations and the homeless. Once you got used to them you could spot which was which almot immediately. They had multiple tells. The homeless were usually dirty and their clothes ragged. Their personal hygience was lacking. They were often very thin. They moved differently from the first kind; more deliberately and with less bounce. I could go on but the point is made.

At any rate what I'm seeing now are people with "Will Work for Food" signs panhandling in places tthat didn't have panhandlers before. The one by my wife's facility is nowhere near any sort of homeless shelter yet there they are. Why?

They are wearing decent if old clothes, clean clothers, Most of them are clean enough personally. There were a few beards but many of the men have shaven. Lots of women.

I believe the Democrats and their NGO allies are recruiting people to panhandle, pretend they are homeless to gaslight Americans into believing the economy is in ruins. I suspect they are recruiting these people from - somewhere, and probably paying them to panhandle for them. I suspect they are getting labor union folks to do it. Theyare giving them transportation too, in all likelihood.

This is the kind of thing the Left always does, cireate a false narrative and put on a show to make it appear true. Like Potemkin, the Czar's minister who was tasked with building villages and never did (he put up false fronts on his "villages" and had people go from one to another cheering the Czar as he cruised down the Dneiper.)

It's a con job, a swindle.

I did give a pandhandler a few bucks the other day and he was legit. I could tell by his look. I further knew he was legit because as soon as I gave him the money he started walking over to the QukTrip on tthe corner (to by booze, probably, although he might have used it for food). Any way you slice it homeless panhandlers don't stay on the job beyond the point where they have the money they need for a specific goal. The ones I'm seeing do; I'll see 'em when I go to vist Cathy and see 'em when I leave hours later. This tells me they are being paid to do this, not just looking for a few dollars to help get by.

If the Left actually had an argument they wouldn't need to resort to cheap stunts and lies. But they know that the public, at least some of them, will be moved by compassion and blame the current government. Next election they may well vote Democrat.

Don't fall for this lie.

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