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Plus, "We gave at the office".

We'd prefer to give our funds for homelessness and the like to charities we trust, can vet, and can hold accountable.

Instead, those funds are appropriated from us and given to governmental entities, run by people who often hate us, where they are promptly squandered, mismanaged, or redirected into lobbying for higher budgets for themselves.

Seeing this happen over and over tends to lead to apathy, if not disgust for the homeless, warranted or not.