Comments on: Couple's Bodies Found At Recycling Plants

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

[ubrew12]

"How to fix it [the needy]? I do not have a clue."
Posted by lyfizgood at 01:49 PM : Jun 13, 2007

Well, then, catch a clue. FDR fixed it, after Hoover caused it. Bush is Hoover for the 21st Century. This problem will get alot worse before it gets better.

[coffeehead-2009]

What is REALLY sad is that while the newfound homeless sneak into beach restrooms, gas stations and retail stores to clean up before working at day labor or getting back on their feet - they STILL pay the taxes to support the very people who have destroyed us.

Corporate welfare -
subsidies to these corps TO TAKE OUR JOBS OFFSHORE. Subsidies to bail out their poor management skills and subsidies in fraudulent "no-bid" contracts.
THEN - we pay for health care, education and housing for the "new immigrants" (about 1.50 cents for every dollar they earn) - so the very "screw american" companies can bleed MORE profit from our replacements.

[johnpatrick9]

Aren't we supposed to care for one another and not dismiss the weak as deserving of their fate. Judge a nation by how it cares for its lesser members and how it attempts to save/rehabilitate/help them when wounded by circumstances. So many relish is their indifference and secretly enjoy the feeling of material superiority over those whose circumstances we can only guess at. Sad happening in a nation that calls itself "CHRISTIAN" and oh yes.."Number One."

[cburn665]

like someone said earlier, this could happen to anyone of us.

This is sad but, at least their misery of trying to survive is over and I don't mean that in some uncaring Kervorkian way.

Seriously, if you have nothing going and no one to help you to lift yourself up and livin' in the gutter then you're probably better off dead.

[coffeehead-2009]

Middle Class and Homeless -- Unlikely Families Face Foreclosure

Chicago Defender, News Report, Zondra Hughes, Posted: May 21, 2007

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=1b33a9ec66b96536d3a1e0ebddda875d



"Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."

-- Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer" January 1934

[coffeehead-2009]

But not EVERYTHING that happens is his fault, and when you turn every discussion to a Bush-bashing session,

THIS my friend IS BUSH MADE - via his NWO policies and his disinterest or disdain for the middle class americans ...

Sadly THIS is very common these days and yes - especially since this administrations blatant hate for working class america.


The alleged go-go economy created by George W. Bush and the GOP Congress is a slap in the face the former members of the middle class who hang at threads of their former middle class lifestyle by sleeping in their cars on the quiet suburban streets of the neighborhood where they once owned a home.

The New York Times writes: "Last year, William R. Alford started keeping a car cover over the station wagon where he sleeps. "I originally just had drapes, but the condensation on the inside of the windows was a dead giveaway," said Mr. Alford, who has been homeless here in the affluent Fairfax County, Virginia since May 2005."

The New York Times,"In 2001, officials in Lynnwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, passed an ordinance imposing penalties of 90 days in jail or fines of up to $1,000 against people caught living in their cars."

Peter Van Giesen, a code enforcement officer for the town, said that up to 20 cars a night were found with people parking near a park where there were complaints of people using the bushes as a restroom.

"Most of these people were trying to find work," Mr. Van Giesen said.

[samatha7]

Come on America give up a lot of the vacant properties rotting all over the country and put some homeless people in them so they do not end up in a recycling dump dead. Shame on America.

[jimibear]

I can't read any more of this ***. As some of you probably know, I despise Bush with an abiding passion. But not EVERYTHING that happens is his fault, and when you turn every discussion to a Bush-bashing session, all you do is make Bush's opponents look like a bunch of knee-jerk reactionary idiots, and make it easy for his defenders to minimize the many very legitimate complaints against him.

There have been homeless people as long as there have been people.

[ceethomas]

lyfizgood

Quit lying about not being for dems or rep. Lockstep is written all over you. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or financial genius to figure out that the span between rich and poor has widened in the last six years. This administration has given it up to the wealthy i.e. big business. The shrub and his cronies ARE responsible for your so-called 'glitch.' It started with Iraq and snowballed from there. 09/11 was their ticket. Use your brain or have you been lying to yourself for so long you can't face the truth?

[jimibear]

How is this news? The recycling solution to the homeless problem has been known for decades now:

"Soylent Green is people!"

Maybe we can start making them into lampshades and soap next! Or pet food?

(NOTE: The above is satire, for those of you too dumb or easily enflamed to get a joke. And ready as I always am to blame Bush for most things ... come ON. There have always been, and will always be, homeless people.)