Comments on: Couple's Bodies Found At Recycling Plants

Homeless Couple Apparently Went To Sleep In Paper Recycling Containers; Found 1,000 Miles Apart

[grammawhamma]

ceethomas. Do you vote in every election?? Do you get off your computer chair and volunteer your time to help those less fortunate then you?? Do you donate to local food pantries that feed the homeless?? I hope your answer is yes to all of the above.

[coffeehead-2009]

Tell me...is there any story that you so called people do not turn into a political debate!!?? Padams1010 your idea sounds worth a try. :)

You don't think homelessness is a political issue? I find it amusing that folks who have no conception of others situation. And as far as farming our homeless into "trade" peons? What is that? Many of these people deserve better from you all. They have already worked their way out of the mill house - these "shelters" are horrid and full of disease - degrading and humiliating. Isolation and even considering that our current system "train" these people is scary - I sure hope too many other citizens agree with this. The thought so reminds me of putrid - housing and handling of GOOD people for bad reasons. We don't need "trades" - low paying , government trained minions. We need independent careers and honorable pride building encouragement.

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[mmcminn3]

Inarticulate as the truth may be, Democracy can not prevail in a Muslim dominated country, but we still can run. The next president will also realize the mistakes of Clinton as well as both Bush 1 and 2 in not making a dent in Al Queda has cost us dearly (forever). They have a plan to Nuke 7 U.S. cities at the same time, go ahead blame Bush. We have to fight them till the bitter end, regardless of the cost. The truth hurts, but it will come quicker if we run and bury our head in the sand of the great USA.

[ubrew12]

"The federal government also contributed to the growing gap between the rich and middle-class." Posted by coffeehead at 02:50 PM : Jun 13, 2007
I guess I meant all those anti-tax administrations leading up to the Depression.

"If Obama were president, we'd all be livin in da land of strawberry soda!"Posted by infidel_us at 03:59 PM : Jun 13, 2007
Thirty years of supply-side economics won't be overturned by Obama alone, or anytime soon. But, true, hard to say exactly what caused this homelessness.

[ceethomas]

GrammaWhamma

This story is about a "recent" homeless couple. It most DEFINITELY spurs political debate. Why wouldn't it? Or are you so comfortably placed in your rocking chair you don't care about other people and how the actions of this government have affected so many people's lives? Where's all those so-called christian organizations that get money from the shrub's government to help people in need? Oh wait, maybe that money is being used to spread more of their pathetic and filthy doctrine.

[jsilver2th]

infidel_us: "livin in da land of strawberry soda" ????

You're skin head bashing biggot or the mail quit coming to your trailer park and you couldn't finish your mail order GED?

[infidel_us]

The parents of the bride said, "it won't last." This is obviously Bush/Chaney/Halliburtin/heartless republican's problem. If Obama were president, we'd all be livin in da land of strawberry soda!

[grammawhamma]

Tell me...is there any story that you so called people do not turn into a political debate!!?? Padams1010 your idea sounds worth a try. :)

[padams1010]

I have made this suggestion before ... but here it goes again. Why doesn't he government take the military bases it closes and turn the bases into homeless shelters and rehabilitation centers. Teach the families/people that come to live on the base jobs that help keep the base running ... give each family a time span for how long they can stay on base, learn a trade, and then move on. Do you have any idea HOW many trades/jobs there are on a military base ... jobs that a portable anywhere in the USA. Think about it ... kill two birds with one stone. House the homeless but teach them how to take care and run the base ... give them skills they can take out in the world. I'm telling you ... it could be done!!

[coffeehead-2009]

ubrew12
funny you said that -- coolidge also..
does this sound deja-vu?


Main Causes of the Great Depression

As production costs fell quickly, wages rose slowly, and prices remained constant, the bulk benefit of the increased productivity went into corporate profits. In fact, from 1923-1929 corporate profits rose 62% and dividends rose 65%10.

The federal government also contributed to the growing gap between the rich and middle-class. Calvin Coolidge's administration (and the conservative-controlled government) favored business, and as a result the wealthy who invested in these businesses. An example of legislation to this purpose is the Revenue Act of 1926, signed by President Coolidge on February 26, 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically11. Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920's. In effect, he was able to lower federal taxes such that a man with a million-dollar annual income had his federal taxes reduced from $600,000 to $200,00012. Even the Supreme Court played a role in expanding the gap between the socioeconomic classes. In the 1923 case Adkins v. Children's Hospital, the Supreme Court ruled minimum-wage legislation unconstitutional13.

The large and growing disparity of wealth between the well-to-do and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable.