'Tent Cities' Rising Across United States

[clacy]

Those pictures are a joke and prove nothing.

I see an illegal immigrant, who most likely is actually a hard worker and down on his luck at the moment, but here illegally, no doubt. He could also have any number of addictons or problems preventing him from finding and keeping jobs.

And a beach bum who has chosen to live that life style.

 

[swtrader]

Quote from clacy:

Those pictures are a joke and prove nothing.

I see an illegal immigrant, who most likely is actually a hard worker and down on his luck at the moment, but here illegally, no doubt. He could also have any number of addictons or problems preventing him from finding and keeping jobs.

And a beach bum who has chosen to live that life style.

the pictures may be a joke, but out the corner of my eye, in a Midwestern college town, I'm seeing more and more tents popping up by the rivers

 

[gucci]

Quote from swtrader:

the pictures may be a joke, but out the corner of my eye, in a Midwestern college town, I'm seeing more and more tents popping up by the rivers

Great observation...There is something very elusive. Something the `critical`posters may be missing. We are living in THE 21th century...Perhaps its time to wake up?

 

[swtrader]

Quote from gucci:

Great observation...There is something very elusive. Something the `critical`posters may be missing. We are living in THE 21th century...Perhaps its time to wake up?

i really do think this is the slow resurgence of 'hoovervilles'/"hobo jungles" that existed in the 1930s

it's very real, and very sad

 

[ElCubano]

I'llllllllllllllllll never go back to tent city...never....

 

[Coldspring]

Don't ever think it won't happen to you.

You might be glad to coexist peacefully with other tent city inhabitants, one day. Unfortunately, I don't think it would stay peaceful.

I've got a tent and supplies that are light and small enough that I can keep them on my person at all times. I won't have to worry about someone stealing the stuff if I need to leave the camp, but I might have to fight for them. I'm not real confident about that having to do that though.

 

[Debaser82]

It's the dollar.

$6.55 minimum wage?

In Europe people don't even scratch their balls for that.

 

[makloda]

Unfortunately, they can't buy much in Europe with their 8 EUR hourly earnings.

Thanks to insane taxation, social security costs and constitutionally legalized socialism living expenses eat up the high relative gross wages.

2008 BMW M5: 100k EUR in Europe. 100k USD in USA.
Gallon of gas. 10 EUR in Europe. 4 USD in USA.
500k USD in Florida, Arizona, Nevada (now) buys you twice the house that you can get for 500k EUR in Spain or France.

The list goes on and on.

 

[rodmike9]

Quote from Debaser82:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."


Thomas Jefferson

great quote, thx

thx for the article too BLSH

 

[Debaser82]

Quote from makloda:

Unfortunately, they can't buy much in Europe with their 8 EUR hourly earnings.

Thanks to insane taxation, social security costs and constitutionally legalized socialism living expenses eat up the high relative gross wages.

2008 BMW M5: 100k EUR in Europe. 100k USD in USA.
Gallon of gas. 10 EUR in Europe. 4 USD in USA.
500k USD in Florida, Arizona, Nevada (now) buys you twice the house that you can get for 500k EUR in Spain or France.

The list goes on and on.

This higher taxation has kept most of Europe's infrastructure, education system, Public services and healthcare system from deteriorating to third world levels. And by the way, nobody buys BMW M5 in europe really, people buy little fiat's.