Bayman,

Your latest argument defies logic. While there are a certain percentage of people who panhandle and are capable of working, there are those who for whatever reason (severe abuse, crime victim, unfortunate military experience to name a few) are rendered incapable of joining this fine community that we have here.

Let's not forget those mentally ill folks walking around with not too bright a future ahead of them.

You ever run into any of these people yourself? Got any in your family? Got friends who do?

Come to think of it I got friends who don't want to walk on the mall because of the groups of young men who accumulate there. They probably work, and this is only a guess, patronize food, liquor, cigarette, and clothes outlets. They can be more intimidating than panhandlers.

But they got a right to be there don't they?