The report doesn’t mention it but the city has proposed setting up an official area where it will be legal to set up camp like this, in order to monitor crime issues, provide sanitation and also provide residents with particular social services. It’s a bit controversial (especially for nearby residents and businesses), but most local folks I’ve talked to think it the only sensible thing to do right now. A Hooverville for our times. I have not seen whether they are following up on the proposal.
These tent cities have been springing up all around the country for a while now, and this is the first real coverage of one that I’ve seen on the MSM. There was one other mention, but it was very cursory. I see one every day on my drive to work, and the local media doesn’t report on it. Children living in tents like this with their parents, in a bitter, hard winter. The president doesn’t care, he keeps letting 138 thousand foreign nationals in through the exploitation of our visa program, and is planning not only an amnesty, but chain migration, which will add countless millions more into our country, at a time when we can least afford it. Unlike the Hooverville’s of the ’30s, these homeless citizens will not be made whole, with new jobs, they will be left to rot by the wayside, while our cowardly leader plays out the hand his corporate friends dictate. It’s going to get much worse. He’s trash talked our economy to encourage more businesses to move overseas, and fire more citizens. He plans on forcing citizens to be beholden to the government for scraps from his table. Pelosi already has an empty bill filed as a holding place, which will be put forward to end the presidential term limits. She’s got dreams of delivering to Obama what Hugo Chavez forced through in Venezuela.
This could just as easily happen to me, too. And even though I didn’t vote for Obama, I’m not going to blame him. We’ve allowed our economy to balloon totally out of proportion. Lord, have mercy.
I had high hopes for Barack Obama, but those hopes are gone. My wife and I thank God every day that we’re retired with good incomes that enabled us to buy our home at a 5.4% rate and a huge down payment six years ago. Millions aren’t that fortunate. We do our best to help feed the homeless here in town, and I have to tell, the stories are so often heartrending. A lot of it comes from making unwise financial decisions such as buying a home you KNOW you can’t afford, but you’re willing to take that risk because you’re so desperate to realize the American Dream.
My family lost our home back in 2001. It wasn’t one we couldn’t afford, just a small two bedroom cape cod, we’d bought it before prices skyrocketed, and we had a fixed rate at 6.25%. What happened was my husband was diagnosed as needing an organ transplant, and a few years later, when his employer found out, he lost his job. My income wasn’t enough, on top of paying for the rest of our bills, and his medication. These things happen all the time these days, and it’s not always because people were imprudent. Some were, but a lot of good people, who worked hard, didn’t live beyond their means, still have been living paycheck to paycheck, or only a month away from homelessness, because prices have gone through the roof for everything. That’s something that conflicts with all the claims that globalization leads to cheaper prices.. it doesn’t, it just allows corporate interests to constantly feel they have the right to ruthlessly gain more profits, they are addicted to them and no matter how much they earn, it will never be enough.
I don’t mind telling you all, that I’m terrified for my daughter. I don’t know what the future holds for her. She’s getting ready to graduate with a masters degree, she has student loan debt, but she never went to a pricey private college or university, but still. I do not trust the government at all.
The report doesn’t mention it but the city has proposed setting up an official area where it will be legal to set up camp like this, in order to monitor crime issues, provide sanitation and also provide residents with particular social services. It’s a bit controversial (especially for nearby residents and businesses), but most local folks I’ve talked to think it the only sensible thing to do right now. A Hooverville for our times. I have not seen whether they are following up on the proposal.
Thanks for that additional information.
These tent cities have been springing up all around the country for a while now, and this is the first real coverage of one that I’ve seen on the MSM. There was one other mention, but it was very cursory. I see one every day on my drive to work, and the local media doesn’t report on it. Children living in tents like this with their parents, in a bitter, hard winter. The president doesn’t care, he keeps letting 138 thousand foreign nationals in through the exploitation of our visa program, and is planning not only an amnesty, but chain migration, which will add countless millions more into our country, at a time when we can least afford it. Unlike the Hooverville’s of the ’30s, these homeless citizens will not be made whole, with new jobs, they will be left to rot by the wayside, while our cowardly leader plays out the hand his corporate friends dictate. It’s going to get much worse. He’s trash talked our economy to encourage more businesses to move overseas, and fire more citizens. He plans on forcing citizens to be beholden to the government for scraps from his table. Pelosi already has an empty bill filed as a holding place, which will be put forward to end the presidential term limits. She’s got dreams of delivering to Obama what Hugo Chavez forced through in Venezuela.
This could just as easily happen to me, too. And even though I didn’t vote for Obama, I’m not going to blame him. We’ve allowed our economy to balloon totally out of proportion. Lord, have mercy.
I had high hopes for Barack Obama, but those hopes are gone. My wife and I thank God every day that we’re retired with good incomes that enabled us to buy our home at a 5.4% rate and a huge down payment six years ago. Millions aren’t that fortunate. We do our best to help feed the homeless here in town, and I have to tell, the stories are so often heartrending. A lot of it comes from making unwise financial decisions such as buying a home you KNOW you can’t afford, but you’re willing to take that risk because you’re so desperate to realize the American Dream.
My family lost our home back in 2001. It wasn’t one we couldn’t afford, just a small two bedroom cape cod, we’d bought it before prices skyrocketed, and we had a fixed rate at 6.25%. What happened was my husband was diagnosed as needing an organ transplant, and a few years later, when his employer found out, he lost his job. My income wasn’t enough, on top of paying for the rest of our bills, and his medication. These things happen all the time these days, and it’s not always because people were imprudent. Some were, but a lot of good people, who worked hard, didn’t live beyond their means, still have been living paycheck to paycheck, or only a month away from homelessness, because prices have gone through the roof for everything. That’s something that conflicts with all the claims that globalization leads to cheaper prices.. it doesn’t, it just allows corporate interests to constantly feel they have the right to ruthlessly gain more profits, they are addicted to them and no matter how much they earn, it will never be enough.
I don’t mind telling you all, that I’m terrified for my daughter. I don’t know what the future holds for her. She’s getting ready to graduate with a masters degree, she has student loan debt, but she never went to a pricey private college or university, but still. I do not trust the government at all.