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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!mandrews
- From: mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Tony Scott)
- Subject: Re: Streetwise newspaper
- Message-ID: <C19IBE.117@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <C17M6B.9E0@spss.com> <C18J2G.KwK@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:42:50 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <C18J2G.KwK@ddsw1.mcs.com> barnhart@ddsw1.mcs.com (Mr. Aaron Barnhart) writes:
- >mike@spss.com (mike cornwall) wrote:
- >:If you've been in the city recently you can't help but notice vendors
- >:selling Streetwise, a newspaper published to help the homeless. I seem
- >:to recall reading an article on Streetwise saying that out of the dollar
- >:purchase price 25 cents goes to the publisher and 75 cents goes to the
- >:vendor, a homeless person. That's fine and dandy, but I continualy see
- >:"homeless" vendors with $200 gym shoes and leather coats - what gives?
- >
- >Well, I think you need to keep lookin.
- >
- >It's clear from profiles in the Chicago newspapers (as well as in
- >StreetWise itself) that selling the newspaper is *not* having a null
- >effect on all of the vendors.
- >
- >So now you are at this philosophical crossroad: Is knowing that even
- >one homeless vendor may be spending his money unwisely (tho' you can't
- >*confirm* he paid 200 clams for those shoes and that he *didn't*
- >buy the coat second-hand) sufficiently compelling to keep your money
- >in your pocket, or instead does it gnaw at your conscience that you
- >are withholding one dollar from your neighborhood vendor, who is
- >actually feeding his family with the money and even setting aside
- >$200 a month from his sales (true story)?
- >
- >In other words, which makes you feel worse -- supporting the bum or
- >skinflinting the worthy?
- >
- >Aaron
- >
- >:
- >:--
- >:Mike Cornwall
- >:mike@spss.com
- >
-
- Consider that most of us are only one or two paychecks away from
- being in the same shape as some of the homeless.
-
- I don't suppose that upon losing a job a person could pawn his expensive
- shoes or sell them for a meal.
-
- I've heard that >Streetwise< is doing a lot of good. The homeless feel
- proud to earn some money and are motivated to set sales records.
-
-
-
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