[Gothmog]

No, the news is based on a report by a bunch of (mostly) lib dem mayors with the political purpose of attacking Bush. Whatever facts included have been manipulated and are therefore not credible.

Instead of whining about me doing your thinking for you, why don't you ask the mayors who put this bogus report together to face the facts and solve homelessness if it is such a big problem for them. If it's anyone's job, it's theirs.

[Tokhtamish]

The news is based on numbers. The numbers are not good. You can look around and see all the "Going Out of Business" signs and see that things are worse than they have been since the Great Depression. Whining about "lib mayors" does not change facts that are obvious to everyone. Unless you are someone flatly determined to believe only what he wants to believe.

When you examine what happens when three million jobs leave this country, a rational person would obviously see that it means a lot of people who had homes three years ago don't today. Or did you think that 3 million jobs could vanish without manifesting themselves in hard socioeconomic consequences (homelessness, crime, alcoholism, drug abuse) ?