Right...!?! What planet are you from?

All that will happen is the person you give them to will sell them at a discount to someone else for cold cash to buy beer, the whole time saying, "God bless..."

If you don't want them to buy booze give them a sandwich. Ain't anyone I know that will buy a sandwich from a homeless guy.

it's a tuffy. how will the 'sandwich' scheme work? can the numbers stack up? maybe mcdonald's can be part of a scheme - but who wants bums hanging around.

the only answer is support and education schemes. you can't stop people who just won't help themselves. unless it's in a confined and controllable environment, like the aborigines in outback australia and the intervention programmes in place there.

If a guy on the street wants a beer or a shot of whiskey to cheer himself up it's none of my business to tell him to chew on carrot instead. I give people money and let them run their own lives. When they realize that certain behaviors should change it has to come from somewhere inside, not some Puritan blue-nose SOB dictating their lives.

We have that now, it's called the US Dollar.

Some homeless literaly sell their own blood for a bottle of T-bird or a fix of the latest chem soup.