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Poor Skippy. How tiring it must be to interject on every topic with that exasperated condescending attitude. We can only hope that going through life with the intellectual burden of a Salinger Glass child doesn't produce the same results as poor Seymour Glass.

I can only implore of all of us to take a moment in our day to sympathize with the poor shlub: he's forced to attempt to communicate with knuckle dragging simpletons at every turn, constantly declaring how confused, confusing, unclear and moronic everyone else's incorrect opinions are. What a burden...

Been only an observer so far on this thread. I have to wonder at the tone of this post and then its accusation that Skippy is condescending. If he is in fact being condescending, one would hope that the rebuke for such an attitude would not be. Perhaps I'm an idealist.

Generally speaking, Skippy's just throwing a little common sense out there on this one. Skippy and I fundamentally disagree on a number of things. But his opinion is always well-informed and well-reasoned. And yes, sometimes a little condescending. I do find it hard to believe that anyone thinks that paying a homeless person less than minimum wage for services rendered is the moral thing to do. I'd have no problem with paying simply the minimum wage. Sitting there holding a sign, after all, requires little training and minimal effort. If they pay less than that, it is, as Skippy rightly said, exploitative.