Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hooverville in California

Much like the "Hooverville" shanty towns during the Great Depression, there is now a tent city growing in Sacramento, California.

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  1. How come we haven't seen this article in any major newspaper in America? Instead, it's a UK paper.

    That disturbs me more than anything else.

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  2. I wondered about that when I read the article yesterday, but suddenly it's on the TV news today. On MSNBC, Monica Novotny interviewed one of the people living in the tent city. At the end of the interview she said to him, "Well, I have some good news for you: the market's up today." The guy was polite, but I imagined he was probably thinking something like "If I had a 401(k), I wouldn't be homeless you dumb rich b!tch!"

    The tent city has existed for at least six months, but suddenly it became a news story today. Why? Perhaps when a UK newspaper exposed it, the American press took notice.

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  3. Who is up for some camping fun???

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  4. The fence around one of the tents is telling. Some 1200 people live there, the story reports. But with no sanitation or access to fresh water supplies ... what a horrible situation. But the U.S. would rather give AIG another $30B or so.

    How long before the cops push these folks out?

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  5. Hoover? He's long dead. These tent cities are Obamavilles now. There's one springing up next to the highways I drive to and from work on. It's sad, but bubbles have consequences no matter how much money people throw at the problem. Things will get worse before they get better.

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  6. Not Obamavilles, my friend. They are BUSHvilles.

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  7. they were named hooverville, because the original of these "shanty towns" formed during the great depression, under president Herbert Hoover.

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