Compassionate retailing CEO Gerry Harvey on charity for the poor:

RETAILING billionaire Gerry Harvey has lamented that Australian charity is being wasted on "no-hopers".

Asked in a new book about his community role, Mr Harvey said giving to people who "are not putting anything back into the community" is like "helping a whole heap of no-hopers to survive for no good reason".

He said it was arguable that giving charity to the homeless was "just wasted". "It might be a callous way of putting it but what are they doing?" he said. "They are just a drag on the whole community."

Vote 1 Gerry Harvey's "Starve The Homeless" Party!

He's a humble man. (Go Harvey, Go Harvey, Go Harvey, yeah!)

He's an inspiring man. (What a speaking voice!)

And he doesn't see any reason that people who need help (it doesn't matter why they need help, all that matters is that by asking for it they have become "a drag on the whole community"), shouldn't die miserably in the gutter.

A true visionary for our time. Go Harvey!