IS THIS THE BEST THEY CAN DO?Today as I was coming from Garapan to San Jose I passed two different 'groups' of kids begging for, I'll assume, donations or as some call it cash. Is this really necessary, to stand in the middle of busy intersections with a tin cup, running up to cars thrusting out a donation cup? Someone will get hurt because these kids don't know traffic laws, like which lane can keep moving for a right turn even though the other center lanes are stopped. What you have here is a disaster waiting to happen!
What are they there for anyway? I remember as a youngster of selling candy bars, that money went for the school band, selling magazines for a class trip, carrying gallons of apple cider to go to a farm fair, making submarine sandwiches and distributing them to the families who ordered them. Why can't these kids do something constructive to earn some money or is it the culture or tradition to be beggars and get something for nothing?
I'll guess seeing that the governor and all the 'leaders' solution's to their problems is to beg for handouts so why should the kids be any different? Kids learn from their peers so as the older generation goes so does the next generation.
To bad this won't stop until SOMEONE HAS TO DIE!
Find a way to earn the funds needed for your projects, stay off the streets and stop this dangerous begging.....
To the motorists if you stop giving money this will stop from lack of funds so you can do something to help rid the streets of this hazard....
.....GED.....
4 comments:
These kids are begging from the wrong location someone needs to drive them up to the legislature or the Guma Hustisia.
I stopped giving money at the intersections a long time ago. I've noticed fewer folks giving at stops. It has to stop.
Sadly, it will take a tragic accident to stop this madness. I almost hit a child several months ago because she darted in front of my car to retrieve coins a car in front of me threw out of his window. What if I hit that child? Sure, I was going slow, but a car versus a child at any speed will maim or kill the child. Thank God my brakes worked well that late afternoon.
The begging mentality is something new. We never did that growing up. I would NEVER allow my kids to do that, nor would I ever do it myself. I don't care what it is for! It is dangerous and it is third world.
Nothing will happen until we have an accident. Only then will our leaders do something about it. They are reactive, not proactive.
Third world is as third world does...
Yes, Mr. Marianas Pride is correct that the begging mentality is something new in the CNMI!
The idea came from his PILIPINO COUSINS!
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