Posted on 03/17/2008 9:07:39 PM PDT by Orange1998
Talking head are drinking from the same water coolers. I just heard one say Clinton had surplus and Bush believes in debt.
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931)
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,
When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,
Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built a tower, now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don’t you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Why don’t you remember, I’m your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don’t you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Say, don’t you remember, I’m your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU
OK, we live in LA. This looks like the desert, which stretches for hundreds of miles outside of LA, all the way to Las Vegas. Did the article say where it was? Did they ask these people what kind of education they had gotten for themselves? What kinds of jobs they had been doing? LA is very expensive, but there is the whole rest of the country. If I were working one day a week, I might consider relocating.
I don’t know. I don’t trust the Beeb without more information. I haven’t seen this anywhere in the local news. I just have a couple of hundred questions before I get out the hankie, that’s all.
Pretty sure it's the "tent city" in Ontario. Ontario is about 35 miles east of downtown L.A. in San Bernardino county.
Parts of the US have really been nailed. People who before lived in apartments were enticed to buy a home with a suicidal mortgage that ruins them. Many are so impoverished and debt ridden with no credit that they cannot afford to return to an apartment.
It may be worth it for some level of government to set up trailer park towns designed to rehabilitate people back into the workforce. If done in an orderly fashion, what might take years otherwise could be reduced to months.
Doing so would provide a safe environment for families, with clean water and sanitation, food and medical aid dispensed on site, buses to transport workers to and from camp until they have built up their savings.
It would also separate them from the criminal element that preys on people going through a bad time. Strangers, alcohol and drugs could be kept out.
Such a facility could be built quickly. Shallow PVC pipe and concrete slabs with prefab trailers put on them. A food aid store/clinic and a school for children. Plus a prefab facility for charities to set up. And a water tower and underground cesspit.
Ummm, in Pennsylvania they are hobos. Saw that on a thread a while back.
A dime? Maybe a dollar but then again its worth less and less.
These are not foreclosre people. They are common bums.
Here’s an article from the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tentcity6mar06,1,3712683.story
Look at that lady ... she’s no housewife!!!
No, there are no tent cities in downtown.
I volunteer at one of the local high schools. We have a lot of ‘downwardly mobile’ students there — students, I would say, who are NOT working hard, NOT studying, NOT putting a skill set together to get them through life. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of them living in the ‘outskirts’ in ten years.
We used to call them Desert Rats.
Am I so rude? Well, I work my behind off and so does my husband. Life is tough.
This is the city of Ontario (California, not Canada). The idiots in city government established an area specifically for the city’s homeless population of about 140 in July, and provided services for them. Naturally the surrounding cities thought this was a great idea and started rousting their own homeless and sending them to Ontario. People from as far away as Florida heard about it and moved there. Soon they had 400. Now the city is telling everyone who isn’t from Ontario to get the hell out. They’re going to provide color coded id bracelets for the people who are from the Ontario area. Everyone else is going to be removed by the cops.
City official remain shocked that offering the homeless a place to park their decrepit motor homes and tents and giving them services tends to attract every bum within 3000 miles.
Wow!!
I didn’t know Michale Moore was working for th BBC
LOL, good one!
OK, we live in LA. This looks like the desert, which stretches for hundreds of miles outside of LA, all the way to Las Vegas. Did the article say where it was? Did they ask these people what kind of education they had gotten for themselves? What kinds of jobs they had been doing? LA is very expensive, but there is the whole rest of the country. If I were working one day a week, I might consider relocating.
I don’t know. I don’t trust the Beeb without more information. I haven’t seen this anywhere in the local news. I just have a couple of hundred questions before I get out the hankie, that’s all.
Many of the people are professionals, professional bums that is.
20 years ago, there were homeless guys living in cardboard boxes on the grounds of the Dragnet building (L. A City Hall!) in the heart of downtown, right across the street from the L.A. Times building.
It’s in Ontario CA ... over an hour outside LA.
That is exactly right and why everyone loves FR. The news is too busy saying bad things about the war and Bush.
a little tear gas will clear out those vagrants in a hurry.
Hm, multiple posting problem? :P
Exactly! Libs are trying to say they have “lost their homes”. Bums, hobos, homeless ... all the same. But they never owned a home.
They are living in old broken down motor homes that don’t start, in their cars and in tents. The city is planning to evict them.
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