# If You Can Walk, You can Work Asshole! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721 "2002-03-29T07:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/21 "2002-03-30T04:55:23Z")
Well, Toon, I was barely at the job this morning when a dude hit me up. I gave him a buck. Not two fucking hours later, the same dude came by again. I told him to fuck off. This is not a mentally or physically disabled dude. He is a fucking lazy scamming fuck. That is what my OP is aiming at. I am not ragging on people with unseen disabilities. I am ragging on lazy fucks who won’t work. Read the fucking OP dude! I said some people are down on their luck. That means for whatever fucking reason. I am down on the able-bodied scamming assholes! See the difference? Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/22 "2002-03-30T05:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muffin \* > \*\* > > Funny you should mention that, for that was proposed in Ontario in the recent campaigning for Conservative leader/Premier. \*\* Really? Geez…such reactionary measures do not surprise me…I wonder if he proposes the execution of beggars like they did in England many years ago…☹ ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/23 "2002-03-30T06:22:44Z")
Holy shit! 20 bucks! Even a crack addict would take you up on that! It can buy a week of the drug! Shit man, what a class A idiot. ---
**Author:** ![tadc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@tadc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadc)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/24 "2002-03-30T16:30:20Z")
lol, there’s no such thing as a weeks worth of crack. If you are mentally and physically present enough to walk around and ask people for money, you have the skillset to work at a job. the problem is that often times people can make more money begging than they can at a job. Plus, they don’t have to work! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/25 "2002-03-30T18:07:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by red\_dragon60 \* > \*\*Holy shit! 20 bucks! Even a crack addict would take you up on that! It can buy a week of the drug! \*\* _Even_ a crack addict. I would say _especially_ a crack addict. They need the money and they got tons of extra energy. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/26 "2002-04-02T13:34:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > **In spite of his lifestyle, this man is still a REAL human being.** Yeah, that was a pretty callous thing to say. I was just expressing my empathy with the OP. Guess that was a pretty stupid way to put it. I generally feel bad for homeless or “street people.” I once gave my shoes to a woman with a child who was apparently homeless. (I’d just bought a new pair and gave her the old ones, which happened to fit her.) I’ve given other handouts too many times to count…money, food, etc. I know that their illnesses and other circumstances prevent them from functioning and I take enough psychiatric drugs to be able to sympathize with that. But I seriously always assumed that if you offered one of them a job of some type, they’d jump on the chance. I’m not sure what mental illness would have rendered this man unable to pick some stuff up off the ground. L ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/27 "2002-04-02T13:55:53Z")
**Klaatu** , I DO see your point. This guy was really just an able-bodied scammer, he ought to get his ass to a job, or be GRATEFUL that you offered him some work. Who knows, if he’d worked very hard for you, he might have had a bit of cash work every day. His loss. Sorry, man. ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721/28 "2002-04-02T14:29:39Z")
**Klaatu** , I understand your point. If they’re able to work but don’t want to when the opportunity to make an honest buck comes along, then fuck 'em. I’m with you 100%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-walk-you-can-work-asshole/100721.md?page=1)