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Have You Seen the Footage of John Stossel Posing as a Homeless Man in NYC?

John Stossel Tells Fox & Friends You Shouldnt Give Money to the Homeless Brian Kilmeade

Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, Fox Business Network host John Stossel once again used the video of him pandhandling to make a point. As he noted earlier this spring, he was able to make about $11-per-hour posing as a homeless man, begging for money on the streets of New York while trying to illustrate how the U.S. is turning into a “nation of freeloaders” for a segment on his show.

“Yes, we are turning into a nation of freeloaders because you feel like a sucker if you’re not when government keeps offering it to you,” Stossel explained.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed, saying that the federal government is always promoting their food stamp and welfare programs on television and radio. Stossel went on to admit that even he at one point has been a government “freeloader” because he collected federal flood insurance on his beach house.

“I had heard that some people beg for a living and and can make big bucks, $80,000 a year in some cases,” he added. “I made at a rate of about $24,000 tax free; I just did it for a couple hours. But, with one sign that said ‘help, I really need help,’ and one sign that said ‘hey, I’ll be honest with you, I just want a beer.’ I collected the same rate.”

John Stossel Tells Fox & Friends You Shouldnt Give Money to the Homeless Brian Kilmeade

“People just automatically give,” Stossel continued. “And you shouldn’t give to these street people. You’re really supporting alcoholism and drug problems.”

“So, you say you shouldn’t’ give to street people at all?” fill-in host Peter Johnson asked.

“There are all these charities that try to help them and get them off the dole,” Stossel replied.

Stossel also said he did a study previously where he offered 17 panhandlers jobs who had signs indicating they were looking for work, but only one showed up.

Stossel said back in May that “to be poor in America is to live a life better than most have lived through history.”

Watch the entire segment below:

Although old, the video was used to illustrate a point for his “freeloaders show” that airs again tonight.

(H/T: Mediaite)

This story has been updated.

Comments (102)

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  • dannyo
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:28pm

    i’m thinking all you libs who think this is so great to give money to bums, then why not let your daughter split her restaurant tip money with the guy panhandling outside, or better yet, have the customer who she is waiting on give her tip directly to the bum in your daughters name, after all, she does have a job and the bum doesn’t..

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    • IraHayesFlagRaiser
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:22pm

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    • JustAThoughtor2or3
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:09pm

      I agree that Christ asks us to give and others will be held responsible, BUT there are smarter ways to give then handing it to people on the street. He is right that there are charities. Not government run charities.

      My husband and I took a ferry from Bellingham Washington all the way to Whittier Alaska last summer. I was so frustrated when I met a couple who had paid for the 5 day trip tickets, food, and passage for 3 dogs all from food stamps and pan handling. They told me how they believed food should be free. All I could think was “no, you think others should pay for your food!” Just so you know, that would have cost them around $2000 to $2500 if they had actually paid for it.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:07pm

      It is neither my issue nor business what a “homeless” person does with the money I give him/her. I am commanded to give by my God who gave me everything! If I see a person who is saying they need help and I have it to give and instead pass them by what do you think God will say to me? If I tell God that I disobeyed Him because I thought the guy would buy beer do you really think that will fly?
      Give because it is the right thing to do and because in doing it you demonstrate God’s love to all those around you. Let God deal with the person you are giving to….Let God handle what you can’t see. The Bible says that when you give to the poor you are LENDING TO GOD!!! Give and then give some more God can handle the rest. :)

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:51pm

      @ FAVORED…..Your comment is reckless and incorrect about what Jesus taught….We are not to give indiscriminately. We are to give as people have need, in fact it is the bible that says if a man shall not work neither shall he eat. Now in order for you to be able to obey this command in scripture it requires you to evaluate and judge each situation in regard to the benefit of giving based upon the real need of the individual. If you are doing more harm than good by your giving what makes you think it is godly? And to say it is not up to you to discern these things is frankly a justification of ignoring your duty to God and to men. In this case their greatest need isn’t to be given another handout that enables them to continue in their laziness and addictions. If you are that compelled to do something then take them to get food and buy it for them, but to just give them money is simply enabeling them in their alcoholism or drug addiction or both as many of these individuals are addicted. You have failed to understand the whole counsel of God and have incorrectly applied the teaching of giving to the poor.

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    • pollyanna
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:07pm

      @SLEAZYHIPPOs Right on Dude.:)

      2 thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
      :11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
      Further more and about discernment…
      Luke 12: 54 And he said also to the people, When you see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway you say, There comes a shower; and so it is.
      55 And when you see the south wind blow, you say, There will be heat; and it comes to pass.
      56 You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; BUT HOW IS IT THAT YOU DO NOT DISCERN THIS TIME?

      Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

      Discernment is way under rated!

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:49pm

      @ pollyanna :-)

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:08pm

      I remember a couple years ago I was pumping gas and this very elderly blackman came up to me and asked me for $5…his story in short was that he and his pregnant wife’s car was out of gas just down the road and he needed gas money….I started to chuckle and asked him how old he was. He said he was 72. I asked him if was his wife really pregnant? He smiled and said….we’ll she might be…I gave him the $5 for making my day to which he went into the store and came out with a bottle in a bag. Still made my day.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:14am

      There was a man pan handling once when I lived in Hawaii and he was right outside a Walmart (beside a McDonald’s). His sign said, “Will work for food.” So we stopped at McD’s and bought him a value meal, before shopping in Walmart. When we got done the sack of food was at his feet, and he was still panhandling. Later someone saw the same person get into a Mercedes and drive away.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Stossel gets the same treatment at fox news as Gary Johnson got in the republican party

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    • soap on a rope
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:34pm

      And yet he has more positive things to say about Fox than he does ABC. He’s also working for Reason and from what I gather, Stossel isn’t living too shabbily.

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:28pm

      @ ANTI-SPOCK…good evening compadre, its me watchtheotherhand….And of course you know I agree with what you said, excpet for the God being in the equation….We haven’t debated for a while..

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  • LovingAmerica
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:15pm

    If we make a mistake and give to someone who is unworthy, at least we did our part and extended generosity of spirit, love and charity toward them. Jesus says that whatever we do for others is the same as doing it for Him. If they end up buying liquor with it, so what? If that is what it takes to keep them warm at night, or help them cope with their adversities, then so be it. Let God handle that end of the deal. Better to give when we should not have than to not give when we should have! And, you can quote me on that!

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    • red_white_blue2
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:31pm

      I agree with your thoughts on this. It is not for us to judge. As far as John saying their are organizations. Isn’t that the same thing as saying; “let the state handle it, let government handle it, its not my problem”?
      Shame on this mindset..shame!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:44pm

      I no longer give a ratsass about the so called poor…….it’s an industry, a way of life, a choice…..there‘s simply a buttload of people who don’t wana work……you can live a pretty good life with all the democrat freebies, plus sell drugs or work under the table…….war on poverty has become a war on prosperity , cuz the rest of us are being drained to subsidize these leeches…….eight generations of welfare recipients is enough !!!!!!!

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:54pm

      We give, albeit carefully, as we’ve seen some pretty crazy stuff. While traveling throughout Europe for our 20th anniversary, every city of any size seemed to have beggers all over the place.

      In Florence, Italy we came across a woman holding a small child, maybe 3 years old, who appeared to be passed out. She was very good at begging but it was obvious she was using the child if one watched closely.

      Right outside the Vatican was an elderly lady dressed up as a nun who could hardly hold her arm out to ask for money … I honestly do not know if she was destitute or not, but if she was a nun, I have a hard time believing people in the Vatican would have allowed her to be starving there.

      The best and most amazing one we came across was in Austria. My wife and I decided to take an evening stroll. We can across a blind lady with a German Shepherd do lying upside down with all 4 feet stiffened in a way that you could just see this dog was dead, and she was petting it as if it were alive. It was heartbreaking to see that, and we talked and were going to stop and give her some money and offer to take her in somewhere to eat as well as soon as we came back. About 30 minutes later as we were coming back, she was sitting without her glasses on, and the dog was up and playing with her. We looked at each other in amazement as her gig was definitely believable and we bought it. Needless to say, she did not make a dime off of us.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:56pm

      @ detroit paperboy

      “I no longer give a ratsass about the so called poor…….it’s an industry, a way of life, a choice…..there‘s simply a buttload of people who don’t wana work……you can live a pretty good life with all the democrat freebies, plus sell drugs or work under the table…….war on poverty has become a war on prosperity , cuz the rest of us are being drained to subsidize these leeches…….eight generations of welfare recipients is enough !!!!!!!”

      Please do not get so cold-hearted that you forget there are truly people living in real poverty by no fault of their own. We have to be very careful of whom we give to, but to become loathsome for all poor people certainly cannot be good. I agree with you that it’s disgusting for people to beg who are just lazy, but we certainly cannot become dehumanized due to the actions of some.

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    • Irishtech
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:39pm

      I don’t give to anyone on the side of the street or standing in front of buildings. I give to my church and 1 charity that I know does a good job of giving to those who are actually in need. Some may look really in need, but I don’t trust any of them. When choosing a charity make sure it is a local one, it may have a national name, but make sure its locally operated.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:04pm

      you are absolutely right on this. judge not. its not our business to judge people before we give to them. Jesus put it in these terms, “inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the LEAST of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

      End of story.

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    • Selfreliance
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:30pm

      It’s not a “mistake” if you have every reason to believe the person is untrustworthy. If a person kicks a small child out of their way and then turns to ask me for a dollar, I have every right to judge… it‘s not my money but God’s money, which I am to manage, and using it wastefully is an insult to His trust.

      Charity is a blessed thing, but not blind charity. You have the same responsibility in your charitable giving that you have in other means of wise management over the money with which you’ve been entrusted. Throwing up your hands exclaiming “it’s not my job to determine what this person will do with a dollar, let God handle that end of the deal” spits in the face of your responsibility.

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    • LovingAmerica
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:32pm

      @Selfreliance…. You have accused me of endorsing “blind charity”, of careless, mis-managing God’s loving financial provisions and of being irresponsible by giving my act of charity over to God to handle the outcome. Selfreliance, God knows our hearts. We do not have to be afraid of what He will think or feel the need to prove anything to Him when He knows us better than we know ourselves. In fact, HE is the One telling us to give in the first place. (or tells us “no” when we are to decline) After all, the one we are helping is His beloved child, too. God is the Source of our Wisdom. He is our Spiritual Discernment and we can trust Him to give us a clear “yes or no” before giving. There are so many people hurting and in trouble in this world. Be generous. Don‘t overthink it or try to rationalize why you shouldn’t give. Give when you can, as much as you can and then let it go with a prayer. God will bless us when we are loving and obedient, when we reach out to others in love and charity.

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:26pm

      Of course most reasonable people, if they have it to give, are more than willing to help their fellow man in need. In fact, as Christians it is our outstanding debt of love to both God and men to do so. However, we are command by that same God to be discerning in how we give. Do not think that you can excuse yourself from the responsibility to use what you have been given appropraietly. The trouble is most people don’t understand what real need and love lQQks like. Which of you if you had a loved one hooked on drugs and alcohol and the lifestyle that goes with it would just give them money and say well it’s up to them what they do with it? I would say you do NOT love your child because you have just enabled what enslaves them to continue to enslave them. That is why the bible commands that if a man (able bodied) does not work neither shall he eat. His greatest need isn’t a meal, it is a change of heart and life that causes him to continue to be hungry. Many are excusing themselves from the accountablitiy to what they are comanded to do as a Christian by discerning the situation and if money should be given. We are not to cut off our heads as Christians and say, “well I gave…. can’t help if I gave to someone who then went and shot that money right up their arm, I did my part”…NO YOU DID NOT….you failed that person in the manner they needed to be loved. Of course I understand we cannot know every situation, but to excuse ourselves so easily is not right e

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:38pm

      @ SYMPHONIC….you do realize that the scripture you quoted…Judge not lest ye be judged….is the most abused and misused scripture in all America. LQQk at the context and it goes on to teach us that we are to make right judgments not superficial ones. In fact, if we are not to judge then you just disobeyd that command in your comment as you made a judgment. The context goes on to use the parable of a speck in your brothers eye and a plank in yours. First remove the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck form your brothers eye. The entire teaching is teaching against hypocrisy. It does NOT teach against judging. We are commanded to make judgements about a great many things including peoepl…false prophets, wolves in sheeps clothing, fruit of people and on and on it goes. In the same way we are not free from the responsibility to give to people using discernment. Give -YES…….. Give abundantly- YOU BET…….but give with a discerning mind and the love of Chrsit. Jesus rebuked his disciples because the sons of darkness were more shrewed than the sons of light. You will be asked to give an account of how you managed the master’s money. It is not loving to give money to someone you know will spend that on their addiction, it is actually a form of hatred. If you want to help, buy them food and take them to get the real help they need rather than kick the can down the road and allow them to remain in their state of slavery.

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:03pm

      Truly misguided. If the odds are a person will buy booze or drugs with your donation you are contributing to the problem… and God isn’t in this equation at all.

      I just love bleeding hearts who seem to think “well if it only helps ONE out of an entire sea of misery I’ve helped humanity!”

      Wise up.

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    • Oldbutnotsenile
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:35pm

      The Bible also teaches that we should not enable others to sin. I do believe lying is a sin, excessive anything is sinful (like drinking, drugs, food, etc.) We could all sit here and quote Bible scripture to try and prove our point. I agree most with if you don’t work, you don’t eat. If a person really needs food, shelter, etc., he should be willing to work for it.

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:57pm

      @ ANTI-SPOCK…good evening compadre, its me watchtheotherhand….And of course you know I agree with what you said, excpet for the God being in the equation….We haven’t debated for a while……

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on July 7, 2012 at 12:17am

      God isn’t in the equation. Once he inserts himself into human events the entire blanket unravels. But I think you know where I’m coming from.

      Glad to see you are back… will look for your comments elsewhere.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:10pm

    I have a corn that is younger than when Stossel did this. Ok The Blaze, is the journalism pool so weak that this is the caliber of journalists left to pick from. I call this lazy journalism. Anybody can go thru FoxNews archives and write a story. Get off your duffs and do some investigative reporting(on your own). Not the quality reporting I have come to expect from an organization of Glenn Beck. Disapointing to say the least.

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    • DesdemonasCrew
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:36pm

      This article is about John’s appearance TODAY, JULY 5, on Fox and Friends to promote his own show on Fox Business Network that airs tonight.

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    • Tigeriron
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Highly relevant article, this issue is fundamental and not going away soon, if at all. Your criticism is ludicrous.

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  • Tom K
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:01pm

    If you want to help the homeless, take them to a restaurant and feed them; don’t give them cash for booze or drugs. I’ve had some interesting dinner conversations with my brother Americans.

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    • Angel_light
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:15pm

      never give cash to a bum, thats just stupid. I guess there’s no shortage of stupid people…..

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  • robg217
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:00pm

    Mosiah 4:16-19; Matthew 25:34-46

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    • LovingAmerica
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Mosiah is in the book of Mormon. For those who may be interested, it coincides with the Matthew scripture: (no, I am not a Mormon.. I just looked it up!)

      Mosiah 4:16-19
      16 “And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.

      17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just—

      18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.

      19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?”

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    • jeffile
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Why was the Book of Morman written in Old English? Sort of writing in Latin an inspiration received today. Just asking.

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    • ZBP
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:40pm

      @Jeffile cuz it was translated in the early 1800′s and the source was older. My guess.

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    • AffirmationChick
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:56am

      According to the Wiki: “According to Smith’s account, and also according to the book’s narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as “reformed Egyptian” engraved on golden plates. Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ’s true church in the latter days.”

      On a side note, that’s early modern English. Old English is unreadable to modern speakers, unless they have learned it like any foreign language.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:59am

    Love Stossel’s work – yes, saw this. I just hope it gets spread all over and more widely known — that is the big problem most of the time. We don’t get the truth out loud enough b/c too many listen to the MSM and/or don’t care, etc.

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  • wolverine
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:56am

    We had a person in our town panhandling at a busy intersection saying he needed a job, a contractor friend of mine offered him a job cleaning up debris in newly constructed buildings pay was $15.00/hr which is pretty good in this area. Was supposed to be at that intersection the next morning and my friend would pick him up and take him to the job. Would you like to guess if he showed up Ha Ha

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    • 1592
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:03pm

      I seen a black man with a sign that said
      “I’M NOT GOING TO LIE. I NEED A BEER.”
      I gave Him a dollar… At least He was Honest!

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    • puravida56
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:31pm

      I tried that once too- I offered the guy 50 bucks to clean up my yars, pull weeds etc. It would be about 3 hours work. He was deaf and we had to write messages to each other. The guy turned me down but said he’d do it for 100.

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  • srocker12
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:52am

    Whenever I am out with my sister-iin-law “no, but I’ll give you a job”….she gives them her card. She has had not one taker in 20 years. Pathetic…..

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  • ima citizen
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:51am

    It should be standard information on all food stamp cards, etc.etc. “This benefit is paid for by your neighbors who pay income taxes. Please thank them when you see one.”

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  • beekeeper
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:44am

    I have to believe that John Stossel’s personal work ethic influenced his results – he didn’t get to where he is by kicking back and waiting for a handout. Also, $11/hr for “a couple hours” doesn’t really map to a 40 hr week career, but he does make some good points.

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  • mrmarkjohnson
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:42am

    Stossel aired this show like three or four weeks ago. This is old news.

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    • grannyjojo
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:51am

      More like 8 to 10 MONTHS ago. The Blaze needs to get this story OFF their “The Latest”. News must be pretty slow right now….Fox and Friends must think we’re pretty stupid or some such. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:31pm

      yea, i saw this on his show and it was a looooong time ago. It was back when fox news network still had Judge Napolitano’s show. I have since canceled cable….

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  • BeingThere
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:37am

    If only I could get rid of this pesky pride and self respect I too could be making big (tax free) bucks!!!!

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  • grannyjojo
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:36am

    Hmmm, Just so you know I saw the episode of Stossel in NY posing as a homeless person quite a while back on TV. I also remember the part about his beach house…..Maybe he’s updated it, dunno, but for the most part thats nothing but a re-run. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

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    • normalmom
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:21pm

      He posed as a homeless person to make a point, not because he wanted the money.

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:33am

    I’m glad to see that people are still generous.

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  • mattmo79
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:33am

    If socialism is so great, why are there so many homeless in Europe?

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  • hauschild
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:27am

    Isn’t this story about 6 months old?

    My goodness, people! Let’s try to keep up.

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    • StayAtHomeDad
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:41am

      It’s The Blaze, are you really all that surprised they are “reporting” a six month old story on the front page? I’m not…

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  • Hickory
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:27am

    Now that is a way a capitalist can turn it back on them. Why don’t a whole bunch of us do this and give the money to a worthwhile charity?

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  • normalmom
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:26am

    I’ve heard they can get like 800 a week. I will not give anyone like that money, food if I have some not money. If they don’t want food it shows them standing out there is bs.

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  • Unconquerablesoul
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:25am

    Here in leftist CA you’ll see panhandlers asking for money while on their I-phone and wearing new Nike’s…

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:43am

      Or asking for $5 for a joint. The last time I was in San Fran, I was harassed by so many in golden gate park begging for joint money, I vowed to never return to your once fine state ever again.

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    • mecbb55
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:44pm

      dude, come one, seriously? you went to golden gate park in san francisco, california and are complaining about the bums asking for money to buy grass? so you decided to never go to the entire state of california ever again? that is just ridiculous. akin to going shopping on madison avenue being shocked at the high prices of clothing/food and in return swearing off the entire state of new york. you are obviously not one of those ‘common-sense’ conservatives.

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    • cmonnow
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:46pm

      mecbb55 – please… you are on the Blaze – home of the reactionary m*r*n. don’t expect rationality.

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  • blanco5
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:23am

    I gave money to a guy for being honest and saying, “Why lie? I need a beer!”

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  • OneTermPresident
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:23am

    The Democrat party…. enables them. People like Obama… love it,

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:23am

    He is right! Even our poor live better than most who have ever lived in the history of the world. $11 bucks and hour proves it. We don’t know what poor is!

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  • perry1980
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:22am

    Pride is a thing of the past. Now people would rather BEG for money than work for it.

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  • wingedwolf
    Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:20am

    I’m glad to see that people are still generous.

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