Comments on: Tent Cities Spread In U.S. As Economy Sags

Foreclosure Crisis Blamed For Rise Of Homeless Camps In Cities

[ofbyfor2]

and you want that to run social security and our health care?????????

Posted by libluv2spit at 06:19 PM : Sep 19, 2008

Would you rather have seen Social Security privatized in light of the recent Wall Street downturn? We need the ''lockbox''--Gore was right.

Can you name a healthcare provider that spends it''s $ more efficiently than Medicare? Look it up, Medicare is very efficient (although it could still be improved) compared to most for-profit health care providers.

[ofbyfor2]

What have you got against Bill Gates? The guy does a massive amount of charity. He wasn''''t handed his fortune, he started out poor (Discovery Channel did a great documentary on him) and worked his way up. Do you no longer want the people at the bottom to have a chance to rise to the top?

Posted by Questionnews at 05:54 PM : Sep 19, 2008

Also, Bill Gates, along with Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton and--yes--Joe Biden have said that they DO think it''s patrotic for wealthy people to pay more in taxes, since it will lessen the debt we owe to China.

Perhaps Obama should have suggested that more Americans learn to speak Chinese...[sigh]

[ofbyfor2]

Homelessness increases yet there are thousands of vacant foreclosed homes. No work but illegal immigrants find plenty. Maybe we could send the illegals back to from wence they came and give the homeless their jobs and rent the vacant houses under section 8 HUD. Nah, that makes sense, the government would never do it.

Posted by Bob5ford at 04:58 PM : Sep 19, 2008

Actually, that''s not a bad idea at all.

If I could add one suggestion: Make the companies that hire the illegals responsible for the cost of deporting them.

[ofbyfor2]

this is obviously all in their heads ... what economic chaos are they talking about ... all the fundamentals are sound.

there''''s record estate ownership, the top tier income earners have more disposable income than ever, and their mercedes, jaguars, and porshes get better mileage than they did eight years ago.

so ... what''''s the problem w/ these people again?


Posted by bobnjersey at 04:47 PM : Sep 19, 2008

I DO hope that you are being sarcastic.

[ofbyfor2]

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer... and the middle class slides into poverty paying for them both. I have no problem helping out those less fortunate than I as it says in the bible and many other holy books, but bailing out the con men money changers on wall street and the investment class really galls me. We need to run these shylocks out of the temple of our democracy and restore our once good name as well as our industrial base. Instead of relying on the smoke and mirrors of interest rates and pie charts, we need to produce something more tangible than being the worlds arms supplier lest we be reduced to a servant class sending our sons and daughters off to their endless wars.

Posted by WogerWabbit at 03:00 PM : Sep 19, 2008

This seemed well worth repeating.

[ofbyfor2]

blondchic: "What do you bet that McCain will try and block these people from voting because they don''''''''t have a permanent address."

You took the words right out of my mouth. As I was reading the article I was thinking these people probably won''''t be allowed to vote for one reason or another.

Was this what Bushie was referring to when he mentioned a "shock and awe" campaign? Hell, it''''s time to say "Mission Accomplished."

Posted by DaGrandma at 02:37 PM : Sep 19, 2008


This is already happening in Michigan and it is SHAMELESS!
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/99087/obama_campaign_sues_michigan_gop_over_voter_challenges/

[ofbyfor2]

This is what you get when you have a liberal congress, a do nothing congress at that. You can blame Obuma, Chris Dodd, Piglosi, Kennedy, Ried, Kerry and the rest of the liberal cronies in the congress, we the people are paying for there mistakes, but they won''''t be accountable for what they have done, if it was the repubs doing this, there would be investigations after investigation, people would have commitees to answer to and all the other nonsense and excuses they come up with, get rid of these pricks and bong hole bleeders, and puss grinders. This is what you get for being "tolerenat" of there immoral as$holes! It really sucks to be a liberal! LOL!!

Posted by zgomer at 01:13 PM : Sep 19, 2008

I am so sick to death of people trying to blame everything on a ''liberal Congress''. They have tried many times to put forth legislation that would help average middle-class Americans. The Republicans in Congress are the elite who are only looking out for their big-business cronies and won''t get on board with it.

Since the Dems don''t have a filibuster-proof majority or a veto-proof majority, they are constantly stonewalled by the idealogue Republicans.

Ergo, the ''do-nothings'' are the Republicans.

[ofbyfor2]

In what is supposed to be the wealthiest and greatest country in the world, this is downright SHAMEFUL!

Hello, Bushville!

I guess they are lucky to be able to get tents. SAD!

[greenchik]

This is the next step in the "povertization" of America along with the calculated dumbing-down that is taking place. Not sure what the ultimate goal is, but look at who has made the most money from this entire housing and banking mess. They have no plan to fix anything. It is documented, however, that FEMA has hundreds of concentration-type camps around the country and one must wonder, "for whom?" Go to youtube and seek out the videos on this if you don''t already know about them. Is this the "New World Order"? People are disappearing and the many disenfranchized homeless will have no vote and no real say in anything. And to the new-comers Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

[newsjunky5]

Maybe the Predasident (sp. on purpose) can step in and help. I think he knows a company that makes emergency housing trailers in Alaska.