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douglas9 (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 05:30 AM Original message |
Tent city in suburbs is cost of U.S. home crisis |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. I am watch The Grapes of Wrath now on tv. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It is beginning to look a lot like those days |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. My father 's family stayed in Texas doing whatever to stay alive. |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
4. If you are not prone to bouts with depression ... |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 08:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. And for a little balance and reality check: |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Thanks, I saw thoses and other alternative housing ideas used in CA. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. .....come back Woody Guthrie |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-23-07 09:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
37. Good tune. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. I don't think I've heard of a tent city on US soil in my lifetime until now. |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Haven't you ever heard of reaganville? |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. You may not hear of them, but they are there. And have been for a long while |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. There are also small tent communities |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. We've had Dignity Villiage here in Portland for years... |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. Tent City, St. Petersburg, FL |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
7. "This news really, um, stirs my, um, conservative compassion. Smirk." - Commander AWOL |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. oh, come on, he doesn't have that large a vocabulary |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. It's beginning to look a lot like a Depression, Ev'rywhere you go. |
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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 07:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. May I suggest "Freedom City?" |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. The new suburbs, brought to you by 7 years of neocon rule |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
13. Bushville** |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Yes, like the "Hooverville" shanty towns of the Great Depression. |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yep. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 10:52 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. or... |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
19. Shades of Houston circa 1985. I recall the signs on the Jags and Mercedes "for sale cheap" |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. Its going to get worse when 90% of a country's assets are |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. Get used to it |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. sounds like a Hooverville! |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
25. K&R |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-21-07 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. oh my gawd. can we now say Bush is the worst president ever? |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
29. Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure" |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. If you directly question most homeless people |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. The headline is a total lie, the story says that tent cities existed before |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. A new generation of Hoovervilles is beginning. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. New Hoovervilles or Bushtowns |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. glitch/dupe |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-22-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. For the Pollyannas in this thread who didn't notice the article also charts the tentville |
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