Instead of asking what a poor slob might do to collect some money? Why doesn't the article ask the "REAL" question? When are even one of the Banksters, at any of the large global financial institutions,  that caused so much misery going to go to jail?

Having children is not as rewarding as the "establishment" would have us all believe. After all we are a society built on CONSUMING. If people do not continue to increase their comsuming than the American economic model would begin to falter.   Too bad the SHEEPLE do not understand this.

"Boy from the hood got White House clearance." The above lyric from the rap-diatribe kind of says it all. This is the "neo-liberal" interpretation of what it means to be an American. Special "rights" for the well-connected.   I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT AGAIN. I strongly suggest the rest of you do the same.

In my opinion the so called "gun-control" agenda has more to do with disarming all citizens than it has to do with reducing crime.   Face it......there are some political leaders and other "elites" that, for whatever reasons,  simply do not like the idea that citizens own weapons.   These elites and the politi...more

The article states that "During the second half of his career" He was a panhandler.   I didn't know panhandling was a career path. Perhaps in Kalfornia begging and public assistance have become newely identifiable careers.   Does anyone know if Senator Dianne Feinstein or that Governor Jerry Brown played any ro...more

I am also seriously considering where to go when I get away from NYC. For the middle class the city has become a disaster. We are being taxed and fined to death. They are raising every and any tax and fine they can put on the working middle class.   Municipal employees live like tycoons at the expense of the suffer...more

How about holding doctors, big pharma  and Drug chains accountable on some level. I guess in this city just the addict is the blame.

Here is a situation, like many we never or barely hear about, where being able to defend oneself probably saves a life. However, In the city of New York She probably would have been arrested. In NYC a citizen is NOT allowed to protect him or herself and family.

There are some repairs that do not require permits. However, more and more, especially in some large north-east cities and of course.... California the requirement of obtaining permits for even smaller jobs is on the rise. Its a revenue raiser in more ways than one.   I think a question not discussed in this articl...more