Tent villages starting to crop up in the US

[Greenthing]

Tent villages starting to crop up in the US....as economic depression hits in a way reminiscent of the 1930's.
YouTube - NBC Nightly News (03-09-09) Tent Cities of Homeless Springing Up In Bad Times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F94f_Ycsjs)

[Dutch Pimp]

Yeah....when we fuck up....we really, fuck up....:s4:

[Dutch Pimp]

:)...Home, safe in Dallas.

[Greenthing]

Yeah....when we fuck up....we really, fuck up....:s4:
Hi Dutch, I never thought something like that would happen in the USA in this modern age, hope things get better soon.

[boaz]

Tent villages starting to crop up in the US....as economic depression hits in a way reminiscent of the 1930's.

how sad, hu? my first thought is thanks to TARP we (the taxpayers) own all those empty houses out there, why not just use them but that's not really fair, i guess. at least President Carter would go out there and help them start building new homes or something, and put guys like the carpenter in the video back to work. But instead the current solution is to print a couple trillion dineros and give 'em to the bankers. :wtf: yeah, that'll work. :thumbsup: maybe it will, i hope so, but we need to work from the ground up, too.

[killerweed420]

Its going to get worse in the coming year too. Crime will escalate. Its what happens when you have a society built around greed. Eventually there isn't enough resources to feed the greedy so they will start taking what they want. If we end up in a depression no one on America will have seen ayn thing as bad as what's going to take place.

[Greenthing]

. But instead the current solution is to print a couple trillion dineros and give 'em to the bankers. :wtf: yeah, that'll work. :thumbsup: maybe it will, i hope so, but we need to work from the ground up, too.
If it was that easy they should print some $ for those in tents.:stoned:

Its going to get worse in the coming year too. Crime will escalate. Its what happens when you have a society built around greed. Eventually there isn't enough resources to feed the greedy so they will start taking what they want. If we end up in a depression no one on America will have seen ayn thing as bad as what's going to take place.
I hope that it dont get to that stage the world is fucked up already.:stoned:

[killerweed420]

Already seeing a lot more suicides and domestic abuse cases. The more you have to lose the tougher it gets. I'm poor so I can never tell when the economy is up or down.lol

[Greenthing]

Already seeing a lot more suicides and domestic abuse cases.
Dam thats is a real shame.

I'm poor so I can never tell when the economy is up or down.
Me too, i reckon having to much money and losing every thing has a lot to do with how you react when things turn bad.
Money is the root of all evil and if you never had it you wont miss it.:thumbsup:

[FourTwenty4Life]

Trust me it's down...I lost about $15,000 in this BS and I already pay higher taxes than most. No tent 4 me but I've moved assets to more secure investments. Anyone notice how many different 'give us your old gold for cash' companies there are now? The commercials crack me up because they're making more from the gold sent than people realize. Whatever check you get, they're getting double. Tough times for all.

[Greenthing]

Anyone notice how many different 'give us your old gold for cash' companies there are now? The commercials crack me up because they're making more from the gold sent than people realise. Whatever check you get, they're getting double. Tough times for all.
There is always some that profit from other folks misfortune.:hippy:

[denialisback]

There is always some that profit from other folks misfortune.:hippy:

oh yeah... shit whats that called again.. dang.. ahh yeah, capitalism

:-)

Peace,
Denial

[boaz]

If it was that easy they should print some $ for those in tents.:stoned:


that would make more sense to me, take that the couple of trillion and divide up among all Americans (I think that would be about $7K for every man, woman and child) and let them spend it. The good companies will be revived by all the new spending and the crappy companies will still go down in flames, as they should. and let the real estate prices fall to their more natural level, the prices were becoming insane :twocents:

[denialisback]

Maybe if the pentagon hadn't lost $2.3trillion last 2002 we wouldn't have this sort of situation going on :P

Digg - Pentagon Missing 2.3 TRILLION Dollars! (http://digg.com/world_news/Pentagon_Missing_2_3_TRILLION_Dollars)

Word.


Peace.
Denial

[Greenthing]

oh yeah... shit whats that called again.. dang.. ahh yeah, capitalism

:-)

Peace,
Denial
I would call them Cunts but that is too nice a word for them:hippy::jointsmile:

[denialisback]

I would call them Cunts but that is too nice a word for them:hippy::jointsmile:

like the words were taken away from my mouth!

Peace,
Denial

[Greenthing]

like the words were taken away from my mouth!

Peace,
Denial
Yeah man the world would be a far better place without them but i think we both know that is never going to happen more is the pity:jointsmile::hippy:

[VapedG13]

thank you Mr Bush..Insted of Bush pissing on our kids

[Greenthing]

thank you Mr Bush..Insted of Bush pissing on our kids
LOL tis so funny:jointsmile::hippy:

[seattlesmoke247]

Yep theres a tent city down the street from me... People gotta stay somewhere... If people are content being in tents I say so be it...

[Greenthing]

If people are content being in tents I say so be it...
Do they have any other options

[Dutch Pimp]

they didn't look content

[Greenthing]

they didn't look content
No Dutch they were intent, Oops bad English joke:jointsmile:

[boaz]

fyi, I just saw another report on CNN about this and I guess the Mayor is working with the local churches and other org's to get them all shelter, now. His message to the media was, "come back in 6 months for your follow up story". :thumbsup: good luck.

[Greenthing]

Mayor is working with the local churches and other org's to get them all shelter, now. His message to the media was, "come back in 6 months for your follow up story". :thumbsup: good luck.
At least someone is going to help them, but why aren't the powers that be not helping.:hippy:

[hedgehog]

Bushville's are popping up everywhere, I could easily find myself in one if my contract at the end of April isn't renewed... When the wife and I bought our house, we didn't buy the big mcmansion, we bought what we thought was reasonable for our lifestyle (which is very restrained). Never considered the fact that I'd be unable to find work for 4 months and the job I was able to get would only last a month.

Sucks.

I'd grow but if I grow, I'm going to smoke. If I do find a job, I want to piss clean and not worry if the cleanser I used worked or not so I haven't smoked in quite some time...

Oh well, enough woe is me...

[Humboldt215]

this is very sad.

it could be any of us in a situation like that, with just a small run of bad luck.

[boaz]

this is very sad.

it could be any of us in a situation like that, with just a small run of bad luck.

yes, that was what i was thinking too. gotta hand to the those churches and to the mayor for stepping up to the plate, i wonder what the governor is doing to help?

[boaz]

here is a link to the video i was talking about.

cnn (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/20/kovr.ca.homeless.tents.kovr?iref=videosearch)

[killerweed420]

Here in Seattle they keep booting the tent cities out. Some asshole will raise a ruckus because they don't want these people in there neighborhood and they get booted somewhere else.
One of the best things this country could do right now is to reinstate the homestead act. we have billions of acres of national and state lands just being wasted. Let these people homestead a 5 acre parcel and give them a place to live.

[the image reaper]

I've lost everything I owned recently, and am basically 'homeless' ... I have absolutely NO urge to steal or cheat ... I was raised much better than that ... while Crime escalates, it won't be because there are more poor people ... Crime dropped sharply during the Great Depression, people tended to support each other in hard times ... Crime will increase because of the lack of moral values, the broken homes, the piss-poor educational institutions, and a prevalent attitude of 'me, me, me' ... it's all about 'ME' these days, with no moral consequences ... :(

[veggii]

I've been homeless since the first of the year suks ass man! dont know what i'm gonna do,, prolly die heat stroke here in couple months! better head up the mountian into cooler weather its also getting crowded in the nor-cal cities as there are more & more people becoming homeles by the day! we need to start up tent cities from sac to redding !! and to think we could grow our way outta this depression ,, if i had a little bit of land and the popo would'nt come rob me :mad: shit's ruff in 530 !! whole bunch o cut throtes!

[painretreat]

Here in Seattle they keep booting the tent cities out. Some asshole will raise a ruckus because they don't want these people in there neighborhood and they get booted somewhere else.
One of the best things this country could do right now is to reinstate the homestead act. we have billions of acres of national and state lands just being wasted. Let these people homestead a 5 acre parcel and give them a place to live.


I've lost everything I owned recently, and am basically 'homeless' ... I have absolutely NO urge to steal or cheat ... I was raised much better than that ... while Crime escalates, it won't be because there are more poor people ... Crime dropped sharply during the Great Depression, people tended to support each other in hard times ... Crime will increase because of the lack of moral values, the broken homes, the piss-poor educational institutions, and a prevalent attitude of 'me, me, me' ... it's all about 'ME' these days, with no moral consequences ... :(

The above 2 posts couldn't be more true. Not just recently, this has been going on for years! Just last year they closed a very large one in Los Angeles, they even had garden's etc. it had been there decades! San Diego chased them from the Zoo (of all places) in the '70's and the cycle keeps going on!!

This is not new. It is still extremely sad! I have found, in recent years, even some people raised with values are sad sacks of shit! Not you Reaper, but the "ME, ME and more ME ' Shit has to be educated out of the "world owes me' kind of thinking! I saw the video on TV and it did show how they are helped to get work, etc. But, a lot expect it to be given to them with no effort. i never found that worked for me! Sadly, our homeless in Calif. has been mostly Viet Nam vets and people with mental disorders. When Reagan was Gov. he closed them with no place to go. I know one and she actually preferred living 'on the road' by foot no less! She now resides in a correctional institution for the criminally mental insane! It makes you wonder, if that type of living would drive anyone over the edge.

If you have a passion, like mj growing or using--I am sure you will do anything to prevent living like that.

People that looted my 'hood' when it burned in '94 are back! After all these years one helped himself to a couple of tools I left out a week ago and a few days later got my ph # and asked me if he could come remove wood for firewood! He has been asked by the police to read the signs and stay off the property, it is not vacant like it was after he came when we had the big fire!! I caught him after the fire putting my gates back on after he had helped himself! It isn't the situation that drives people to steal and cheat, IT IS LACK OF MORAL STANDARDS! People would help if they could be certain the person they help doesn't help themself to your possessions and leave or 'identity theft'; which happened to a friend of mine that gave someone a home during the last 'recession.'

I think the majority of these tent people may be better off. They will be spoon fed, how to make a living, get food stamps, welfare and get a job! The legit ones will-others will just keep moving from one to another for years just waiting for someone to 'help' them and the day they totally trust them, they will come home and be 'cleaned out.' Guess I'd better get my meds, this is too pessimestic and a very sad thread!

I can't say I feel a lot of sorrow though. In good times, I slept in a 2 room cabin with 4 adults and 9 kids while I was a child! When we could, we slept outside, until evicted! And the utilities were turned off monthly! For some-it is simply a choice, as it was for my parents. They were self employed and could not handle $. Once I was in Jr. High I started running their business and paying the bills. Managed to live in one place for 5 years! We've always had tent cities! They use to use cardboard boxes and shopping carts!


4204life; it didn't take a genius to figure out that eventually those loans that were no interest for years would eventually have it and plan--as did you! No one could have predicted the extreme loss of work, but it is cyclical and will happen again. Hopefully, never to the point, there is no money to loan!
boaz; that is a good idea!

Cannacom members could run this country much better! and overgrowthe Gov't!! PR:rastasmoke:
PR :(