We have people living in tent cities

[fumsm]

600k per month losing jobs, foreclosures out the ying yang, businesses failing everywhere, and all the talking boobs can talk about is the banks. Now their saying Citi employees should get the bonuses because they are mostly owned by the gov and they don't make much money as it is. We are being fucked in the ass daily by these networks and their shills and it is way out of control. It seems there is no longer a need for lobbyist in DC, they are all over my fucking tv, "why are we addressing health care now, leave it alone and do something else, we need to retain talent, give them the bonuses, Jon S. shouldn't pick on Cramer, and on and on and on....

[fumsm]

1. Uh Ohh,

Jack Welsh about to come on GEMSNBC and say Obama should not be coming out and telling the country things he is going to do, "the country is confused" he states. What a fuck'n jerk. Two weeks ago he wasn't out in front enough, now that they don't like what he has to say, they want him to disappear. They sure are used to telling presidents what to do and them following orders, aren't they..

[TBF]

2. K&R n/t

[Possumpoint]

3. Let's Address Your Title

The tent cities are expanding on a daily basis. Soup lines are growing. What can we do to assist those who have fallen on hard times. In cold climates like Denver, we need to first get families with children into warm environments. Any elderly people are next. Is squatting on foreclosed houses the answer? How does one go about setting up a soup kitchen? I'm not a member of a church so that avenue is out. We're lucky in my area with government being the largest employer there is less unemployment. Construction however has ground to a near halt.

As to the bigger problem with the economy, it is my opinion that our Congress is bought and sold by corporate America. Newly elected Representatives are corrupted almost immediately when they attend the seminars on how to obtain financing to get re-elected. They they attend lavish get together sponsored by corporations and see what the good life really is. Until we get the undue influence of corporate America out of government nothing will change.

Our government will continue to throw good money at failing business in hopes of saving them and then tell us that they are trying to save jobs. The jobs lost are at the low end, not at the top where the bad decisions were/are made.

[radfringe]

4. well... the NOPers

are always talking about a "big tent" - now we know where it is...

[KharmaTrain]

5. It's Still Hidden Away...

For years many cities have worked hard to find ways to shovel the homeless out of sight out of mind. In Chicago they closed the airport at night in the recession of the late 80's to chase the homeless away from there and then swept out the skid row areas with yuppie lofts and condos. These people were driven underground and remain there. I just think of the many trips I've made to LA and seeing all the homeless in the doorways in Hollywood...those who think this is a new problem need to wake up. It's been bad and getting worse.

My wife and I work with several local groups that operate shelters in our Pleasant Valley Sunday area. It breaks one heart to see a family come in...some of the kids who went to the same school as my children...driven out of their homes and this is the only place they can come to. Each night a different shelter and surely a new set of dangers and challenges. And this is, or was, considered the richest country in the world?

The corporate media puts a nice sheen on the "American Dream"...but sure avoid showing the reprocussions...the victims of the greed and arrogance that destroyed this country...morally and economically over the past 30 years.

If there's one thing both right and left share...its their resentment at the greed going on right now. If I were Jack Welch, I'd be laying low these days...he's a walking billboard of what went wrong, not right.

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6. I'm fairly old and it seems to me that the news on television is nothing more than propaganda.

It has NOT always been this way.

It use to be that you could get the real news even if you put up with some amount of idiocy. But it has changed.

It started with Ronny Raygun. Seems the Washington reporters stopped asking him real questions because he was just so damn stupid. From there, the media went into hiding the fact that Raygun was out of his head and seriously ill. When W. ran for president they applied the same gentle stroking of his ignorance as they did to Raygun. But of course any scandalous lie about a Democratic politician was always blasted far and wide.

It got worse and worse during the last 8 years that I've stopped watching the corporate news altogether. I've canceled my local newspaper. (Why pay to get the government/corporatist propaganda?) I no longer listen to the wing-nuts and preachers on what passes for talk radio around here.

It seems to me the corporatist, wing-nut, repukes have taken over every possible source of news and distorted it to be one giant advertisement for their chosen repuke politicians. You can't trust it to even give you the facts anymore.

There are a few outlets that are more trustworthy. Olbermann and Rachel come to mind. I can live stream Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. I get The Nation Magazine and Mother Jones and of course there is the internet.

But you can no longer get reality on TV and radio news shows and major local newspapers.

[deminks]

7. Homelessness and poverty are not a problem if you don't see it.

It's been that way for a very long time, since Hoovervilles, maybe even before.

They made a big deal last week out of Charles Barkley doing some of his "time" in the tent city, when the real story was the tent city, IMHO.

[MadHound]

8. We've had people living in tent cities for years and decades now

It is just recently that this problem has grown to a size where it is noticeable, where the MSM actually starts to cover it, where it starts to impinge on the consciousness of the majority of Americans due to the fear that they might wind up in one of those tent cities.

[Odin2005]

9. The M$M is determined to keep the Real Main Street Depression away from viewers' eyes.

That and the Masters of Finance arrogantly think they and their paper shuffling ARE the economy.

[s-cubed]

10. Please don't call them tent cities: they are BUSHVILLES.

We had the same, under Hoover, and they were referred to as HOOVERVILLES, after the president who refused to take action to help ordinary people, and let the rich rape the country.

[Xenotime]

11. Agreed. Obama needs to do something about this. A fair solutions would be..

...for people with over 1000 sq ft home should be required to share their homes with families who have lost theirs.