Helping the homeless help themselves

yesterday cedric and i were sitting in delano pizza bistro, and this beggar comes over to our table, like eight years old, and asks us for some money to buy food. my first instinct was just to say "no," and shoo him away, but i felt bad because he was so young, just a hungry hungry child. so i decided to help him, but not by giving him alms. i thought, instead of giving him a fish, i'll teach him to be a fisherman. so i gave this eight year old boy all the direction he'll need for the rest of his life. i told him the secret of making money: "get a job!"