There are homeless people everywhere. The police have found that the motors don’t start on their vehicles ... they are professional homeless.
It’s Bush’s fault!
A lot of folks in LA were living close to the edge. Tent cities is what you get when a bunch of them go over the edge...
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Where is this?
Lazy bums have been around for as long as people. In the early 1900’s, they were called “Hobo’s”. I still call them leaches.
I’m single. I could sell my house, buy a cheap motorhome, park it there and save maybe $3,500/month and probably retire in about 10 years with the savings.
I’ve noticed an increase in the size and quantity of the homeless camps along the CalTrain tracks in San Jose. The inhabitants, when visible, don’t appear to be recentlty displaced former homeowners, however.
I blame Global Warming.
There used to be mini-tent cities in Downtown LA when I was growing up there in the 80s/90s. They moved most of them on, but I understand they’re back.
Reservations are now being accepted for Bear Stearns employees.
It seems like anyone who is forced to live in a tent after losing his home must have been living on the edge for a long time, maxing out their credit cards to pay the electric bill and buy groceries, etc. But it’s like with the homeless people in San Francisco—Who is forcing them to stay in California? Before I’d let my family live in a tent, I would hitchhike to South Dakota and rent a cheap apartment, start over and try to give my family some semblance of a normal home.
“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.
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.
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
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.
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.