What can you do to help the poor with $100 and a WalMart?

So I got a pity $100 from a rich guy to help the poor. I decided to see what kind of help I could offer with this amount in a WalMart. I live in the Midwest so prices are pretty low around here, but $100 isn't a lot in any case. I'm going to assume that I won't buy anything for myself with this money, and that I'll help whoever I can with it.<br><br>The average poor person will have trouble keeping a job because of medical issues, lack of access to decent food, lack of child care, lack of access to transportation, etc. <br><br>So, in my Walmart, the cheapest small bag of apples was $5.98 and the cheapest loaf of bread was $2.48. Unless you're just trying to fill your belly with empty calories, eating cheaper is not really in the cards. So, with my $100 I could buy 16 loaves of bread and 16 bags of apples. Good luck trying to use all of that before it goes bad. So, scratch that, you can't really help the poor by buying them food at Walmart. Hell, you can't even help yourself with the food they offer. <br><br>What about diapers? On the cheaper side, they come at 50 per box for $13.97. So, I could buy 716 diapers with my $100, but I'm sure that within a week they will be useless. Unless you're just trying to fill a kid up with food to fill their diapers up faster, cheap Walmart food and cheap diapers will create the perfect cycle of eating and shitting to help the poor. That's all they need, judging by the fat poor bastards you see in line there everyday. I'm starting to think that $100 won't go very far at all. Unless you want to give some kid really bad teeth through soda and candy. A case of cola is around $8.98 and a bag of candy is around $9.98. That's a diabetic coma waiting to happen right there, and a week worth of work for the kid's dentist if I bought them all out. That's nothing to sneeze at. What else?<br><br>Oh hey, I know! Addresses! If a poor person has an address, they're not really poor, but if they don't have an address, that makes everything a lot harder. Walmart to the rescue! They offer P.O. boxes for $30 a year. So, I can buy an address for three poor people, and still have enough cash left over to help them celebrate their new addresses by buying them each two bags of apples. But I don't know three poor people without addresses. I'm a bit of a loner, so my needs are pretty small. So, scratch that.<br><br>How about bus passes? Well, it turns out that the bus doesn't run through my town. So, scratch that. They're shit out of luck around here without a car. But, hey, Walmart to the rescue again! They sell used cars through a third party service for around $7,000. So, I'm about 70 times poorer than the rich guy. That's nothing! However, I'm probably about 700 times more in touch with the common man than he is. So, when it comes to what a poor person really needs, I'm about 7 times richer than the rich guy. So, I won't bother buying any cars with my money. Hell, I could probably buy a better car than they have to offer for my price, and I'd still have enough left over for a candy party! I'll make sure I keep that in mind if the next rich guy who pities me gives me $7,000. If I'm lucky, I could buy all 14 of my friends a car and still have enough left over for each of them to eat two bags of apples!<br><br>So I think I'm done with Walmart.<br><br>The next stop is the used car lot. Is there anything they offer that can help the poor? Well, it turns out that I can get a pretty decent ride for around $500. So, I could help two people this way and still have enough left over to give out a free apple party to all of my 15 friends! But, considering that they don't have a place to live, food to eat, or a job that pays enough to buy gas, and that I'd have to pay a 10% sales tax on top of that, I think I'll pass. If they don't have these things, they won't be able to afford a car, cheap as it may be. I've got to think about the big picture here. Maybe they can just use buses and eat apples forever.<br><br>What else? Well, what do the poor really lack? Health care, child care, transportation and housing. Essentially, if you wanted to help a single mom in need, you could land her a job that offered her health insurance, a day care service, a car, and a house. Unless you're a doctor, a teacher, a real estate agent, a car salesman, or a head hunter, I don't think you can really offer these kinds of things. Hell, even if I were a doctor, I'm not sure that single moms would be my specialty. So, scratch all of that.<br><br>I think I'm going to have to throw this money straight into the street. That's the only way that it's going to trickle down to the poor. I'm pretty sure that this method works, judging by all of the fat poor people you see around Walmart. There must be a lot of people out there throwing money at them.<br><br>Oh well, good luck poor people! I guess we're all shit out of luck around here.