Tent City, U.S.A.

[DroppinScience]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=tent%20city&st=cse

[RobMoney$]

Hooray for Obama's redistribution of wealth!

[Bob]

Hooray for Obama's redistribution of wealth!

we'll just have to leave it up to some benevolent AIG exec to save them, as per usual

[kaiser soze]

seriously rob, why blame obama....you know this happened on bush's watch. Talk about redistribution of blame!

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/05/news/economy/jobs_november/index.htm

The 2008 tally soars after payrolls shrink by 533,000 in November, the biggest one-month decline in nearly 34 years. Unemployment soars to 6.7%.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The economy shed 533,000 jobs in November, according to a government report Friday - bringing the year's total job losses to 1.9 million.

November had the largest monthly job loss total since December 1974.

"This is a dismal jobs report," said Keith Hall, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at a congressional hearing. "There's very little in this report that's positive. This is maybe one of the worst jobs reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics (founded in 1884) has ever produced."

[DroppinScience]

Jesus Christ, it's really depressing reading the news. :(

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/26-8

Published on Thursday, March 26, 2009 by Reuters
Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens

by Steve Gorman and Suzanne Hurt

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emergency shelters brimming with homeless people in California's capital are quietly turning away more than 200 women and children a night in a sign of the deteriorating U.S. economy.

The displaced individuals on waiting lists at St. John's Shelter and other facilities often turn instead to relatives or friends for temporary living quarters, perhaps moving into a spare room, garage or trailer. The less fortunate might sleep in their cars or a vacant storage unit.

They are the hidden homeless. And their ranks appear to be growing as rising joblessness and mortgage foreclosures take their toll in Sacramento and other U.S. cities, experts say.

[...]

[NoFenders]

Once that bonus money is returned, it'll all get better.

[Dorothy Wood]

honestly, people are doing what they need to do to survive. I think tent cities can be okay, as long as people are keeping clean and supporting each other and trying to make do and look for work. (obviously this is not what always happens).

I think it's kinda bullshit that it's illegal to live outside where ever you want. I get that it's not safe, but I don't think it automatically means it's unsafe...I just think it's a person's right to live anywhere they want.

If I were homeless, I'd move to a college town and live in the woods. college cafeterias throw away so much food, it's insane.



Obama has nothing to do with this...wtf is up with the little digs in here? dorks.

[RobMoney$]

Once that bonus money is returned, it'll all get better.

Jim Cramer has been offering excellent investment advice ever since "the interview", so I'm sure the economy will be rebounding any day now.

[RobMoney$]

honestly, people are doing what they need to do to survive. I think tent cities can be okay, as long as people are keeping clean and supporting each other and trying to make do and look for work. (obviously this is not what always happens).

I think it's kinda bullshit that it's illegal to live outside where ever you want. I get that it's not safe, but I don't think it automatically means it's unsafe...I just think it's a person's right to live anywhere they want.

If I were homeless, I'd move to a college town and live in the woods. college cafeterias throw away so much food, it's insane.



Obama has nothing to do with this...wtf is up with the little digs in here? dorks.


You, along with the most of the regulars here in GP are too emotionally invested in the Obama presidency and consider it too historic to admit any failure.

If a drinking game called for you to take a shot everytime that someone from the Obama Administration blamed problems on the previous GWB administration, we'd have a nation of alcoholics.

[Dorothy Wood]

You, along with the most of the regulars here in GP are too emotionally invested in the Obama presidency and consider it too historic to admit any failure.

If a drinking game called for you to take a shot everytime that someone from the Obama Administration blamed problems on the previous GWB administration, we'd have a nation of alcoholics.


please don't patronize me. I don't let my emotions rule my opinions on politics. I didn't blame anything on GW either. not in here at least. I just think it's stupid to pop into a thread and post a statement that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. redistribution of wealth has absolutely nothing to do with tent cities. it's fucking March. you think thousands of people became homeless because of Obama's tax plans?


I'm sorry, but running in and yelling "obama sucks! ha ha!" doesn't change or help or add to anything and it's annoying.

if you have some valid and relevant issues with the presidency, I have no problem keeping it together long enough to read what you have to say. I can't guarantee that I won't have a hissy fit and throw myself on the ground sobbing afterwards. because I'm just so emotionally attached. :rolleyes:

[DroppinScience]

You, along with the most of the regulars here in GP are too emotionally invested in the Obama presidency and consider it too historic to admit any failure.

If a drinking game called for you to take a shot everytime that someone from the Obama Administration blamed problems on the previous GWB administration, we'd have a nation of alcoholics.

Okay, so 2 months in office and it's a failure (at least with respect to the economy)? Last I checked, Obama has 46 more months to go in his term. Fixing something like the economy is a long-term problem that you have to work at and a lot more time is needed to feel the effects of his economic policies and more importantly see what he comes up with next. FDR's New Deal took longer than two months, but I've got no doubt you'd be calling him a failure if you were alive in 1933 during his first two months.

And why can't you blame the problems on the previous administration? Obama didn't take office in a prosperous era and suddenly turn everything sour in just this short two months. It was sour before he got here. Give us a year, two years, an entire term and then we can see if Obama is the one to blame.

[Echewta]

I love the redistributing of wealth 80s talk that is creeping up again in the hearts of conservatives. The only redistributing is that those who took stupid risks now have all of us to pay the bill.

[RobMoney$]

I love the redistributing of wealth 80s talk that is creeping up again in the hearts of conservatives.


Sometimes I forget how old you are.
Oldie Hawn.

[NoFenders]

I love the redistributing of wealth 80s talk that is creeping up again in the hearts of conservatives. The only redistributing is that those who took stupid risks now have all of us to pay the bill.

*applause*

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[Whatitis]

....lets redistribute the blame (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977461051) a little bit more.

[yeahwho]

....lets redistribute the blame (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977461051) a little bit more.

Really? This is the guy I should take seriously? Poliwonk (http://poliwonk.gather.com/)? He understands who inherits great economical platforms then screws them all up?

In his profile "about me" section he says, I have an opinion. Right or Wrong, It's Mine and noone can take it away from me!

does he mean peter noone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8k0VI9tBc&feature=related) from the hermans hermits?

So far all of this talk reminds me of something I heard on Local TV (http://www.komonews.com/opinion/kenschram/41919802.html?video=YHI&t=a) the other day