i agree with you. nothing irritates me more than to see the baseball teams and others just standing outside the doors of a store with their coffee can coin collectors. i won't donate to that. bake some cookies, wash my car - do something!!! that is what is wrong with us today. i don't begrudge anyone that truly needs help whether it be food, clothing etc but to just come right out and beg for money by children is setting a terrible example. they grow up thinking if they want something they don't have to do anything to get it - just keep asking and eventually someone will give it to them!
my feelings exactly!! it's called a sense of entitlement.
BTW, saw an article about what to do with "leftover" GS cookies -- hello, what is that? around here if we ever get any they are almost gone before the wrapper hits the garbage can.
Probably from the same people who believe in leftover Halloween candy. When I was a kid if someone had tried to take some of MY halloween candy they would have drawn back a nub.