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If there were adequate shelters and sources of food for these people, do you really think they would be begging for food? Of course not.
Although I am against a huge welfare state, I am 100% for making sure that every city has large and easily accessible shelters/'soup kitchens' that are federally government funded and never run out of food.
With the huge number of obese people in America, it is inexcusable that any American should have to beg for food.
And I do not think there are nearly enough food options for the homeless at this time...so giving food to them is perfectly fine, IMO.
My only agreement with you would be that - having been an ex-drug addict (though I had plenty of money at the time - I knew a lot of addicts you didn't), you never give something to an addict that they can sell to feed their addiction...and many homeless are addicts of one kind or another.
So, you make sure you do not give the homeless a food product they can easily sell...give them opened products (like a loaf of bread with a slice or two removed) or buy them a Big Mac but just as you are handing it to them, cut a small piece off of it to make it unsellable (you might be surprised what an addict will sell for addiction seed money).
Who would buy a Big Mac from a homeless person whether there was a piece cut from it or not?