Another Day in Obama’s America: Man Shames Panhandlers Who Refused His Job Offer
Posted: December 16, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: begging, Camera, Christmas, CNN, Facebook, Iowa, United States, WQAD-TV |Leave a commentFacebook Mobile Uploads – Michael Wooldridge | Facebook
Standing next to two panhandlers in Iowa, one man held a sign that read, “Don’t give money.”
He had apparently offered them a job at his business and they refused.
“My Uncle Mike offered these guys a job said he was busy right now could use the help they said no so he did this!!”
“I said, You’re hired,’ and they said, ‘We’re not from around here.’ I said, ‘Well, you’re here,’ and then they just smirked and turned around,” Mike Pothoff told WQAD-TV.
A photo posted by Michael Wooldridge, who says Pothoff is his uncle, on Dec. 12 on Facebook has since gone viral with over 24,943 shares.
Wooldridge wrote, “My Uncle Mike offered these guys a job said he was busy right now could use the help they said no so he did this!!”
Pothoff told WQAD that the job offer is still valid. He shared his reason for shaming them with the station.
“There’s a lot of women and kids that aren’t going to have a lot for Christmas – might not have anything – and it upsets me that we have younger kids, or people who can work, that are doing that,” Pothoff said….(read more)
Source: USAToday