Begging is wrong (Homelessness and street begging)

Member Name: eowen

Product:	Homelessness and street begging
Date:	30/01/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: easy money

Disadvantages: immoral

I think begging is completely wrong and should be made illegal (is it already?). Where I live there is a street begger who was recently in the paper. Everyone in the local area knows this man actually has a house to live in but he still chooses to go and beg everyday rather than get a job like everyone else. He has been given an ASBO to stay out of the town centre to stop him begging there, however he has broken this. He admitted to earning up to £70 a day street begging.

I really think this is appalling as there are hard-working individuals out there who go and do a full days work for less than this and are still struggling to pay their bills, while this man claims all the benefits he can and also begs on the street.

I think begging should be punishable by imprisonment!

Summary: bad idea