Tent cities spring up in LA

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Here's something you won't see on the American Evening News.

[Mithreal]

1. The housing mess is a federal emergency, why not FEMA?

FEMA needs to add Republican administration and Banking crises to the list of declarable emergencies.

America, how many million homeless? People need to be pounding the candidates and calling their representatives about housing the homeless in this country.

[cutlassmama]

3. Because the rich ass Republicans don't have to worry about

this happening to them so they turn their heads and pretend not to see it.

SICKENING, JUST SICKENING.

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Deleted due to brain fart.

[texanwitch]

2. Welcome to Bushville.

Damn, that is so sad.

[Spiffarino]

4. Bushvilles: The Hoovervilles of the 21st Century.

Good meme, texanwitch.

It's time to call Keith Olbermann and get this onto the American airwaves. This deserves an audience.

[Javaman]

29. Living in the bush. nt

[marvinsmith]

5. Foreign media

Yeah, BBC is a good source for finding out what the American media quells. Tent cities and soup kitchens for the working man while corporate earnings soar and worker wages don't increase with their increased worker productivity.

Asian Times is often useful as well for a clearer picture on the state of the American economy.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Welcome to DU. nt

[marvinsmith]

46. Thanks for the welcome

And I agree with the sentiments. 

[Cali_Democrat]

6. This is shocking

:wow:

[NM Independent]

7. I've been saying this would come

but nobody ever listens to me...oh well, wouldn't have done any good anyhow. It was bound to happen.

This is only the beginning folks. It's going to get a LOT worse.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/wall-street-fears-for-next-great-depression-796428.html

found that one on the comments for this video at youtube. Yikes!!!

[unapatriciated]

38. I have been saying it too

we are about to find out what it was like for our Grandparents and Great- Grandparents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM

[fasttense]

8. With an estimate of 2,000 households losing their homes

every day in 2008, we are well above the rate of home foreclosures experienced during the republican Great Depression. I was wondering where all the people were going. I never hear about this on regular news. They should camp out on the White House lawn.

[bdamomma]

12. or push the occupants in the WH on the streets.

this is becoming a class war, how much more can we take from these thugs.

[TomClash]

9. Note that . . .

1. This was on teh BBC and not US propaganda news.

2. Whites, Latinos, blacks are all affected.

IT"S A CLASS WAR!

[Mithreal]

10. If Bush wanted to reclaim a lil dignity he would fly into this disaster

area to increase awareness that people are being affected and not just banks.

Not going to happen, I know. His most loyal constituents might hate him for it, wouldn't they?

[bdamomma]

11. this is what the *'ies had in store for so many Americans

are we enraged yet, we have become a third world country.

maybe we should see the occupants of the WH be on the streets, it is way past their time. isn't it??????

[jcla]

13. We might be the richest nation in the world

but these people have lost so much... and more are going to be joining them. Many more before this Bush mess and his gazillion dollar war are paid for and ended. We have aimed money at the wrong place..Iraq... when we should be rebuilding at home. Many people still have not recovered from Katrina... the Gulf and Louisiana are still in a mess... we are losing peoples' homes and people do not have health care or educational opportunities.
This is what our news should be covering... not Ferraro or Obama's former minister.

[Gonnuts]

14. You aint seen nothing yet ...

I live in New Orleans, 1 in 25 people here are homeless. Now granted this is mostly from the governments planned failure to act after Katrina plus the growing economic crisis, but what is about to happen will make all else pale in comparison.

We're heading fast into a world-wide depression that we won't pull out of until a great many of us are no longer around to see it. I'd call myself an alarmist if there wasn't so much evidence to prove this true. We've been walking towards this cliff for some time, we now have one foot off the cliff and soon the other will follow. Our rapid fall will create change of such magnitude as to challenge the continued existence of our species.

Fact: even in the best of circumstances this planet can only sustain approximately 2 billion people with a descent quality of life. We currently have over 6 billion and growing rapidly.

Fact: continued rapid lose of natural resources, habitable land, pollution, climate change and mass extinction of species will bring the number of people who can survive to 500 million, that's if we don't blow ourselves into oblivion first.

What this means is 5.5 billion of us have to find somewhere else to go. The powers that be know this and they have laid plans to ensure that if anyone is going to survive the coming purge it will be them. This is not an "if" it will happen. It will happen no matter if the powers that be plan it or not.

That time is upon us and I have no advice to anyone as to what they should do other than enjoy what you have because you won't have it for long.

[izquierdista]

23. No, not world-wide

Not where I've been the last week. Construction cranes up everywhere, new buildings going up, old ones getting a facelift. Lots of tourists spending money and keeping the restaurants open late into the night. Free language lessons for new immigrants, excellent public transportation, lots of help wanted ads in the local papers. Big emphasis on living sustainably with recycling and locally produced products. No, some places really have it together. They even re-elected the socialists to run the country last week.

[Goat or Panic]

40. izquierdista, Where was this?

n.t.

[izquierdista]

43. Spain

Barcelona to be exact. Catalunya is in excellent shape, but I can't vouch for the rest of the country, I didn't tour all over.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. "1 in 25 people here are homeless"

sad indeed.

[ooglymoogly]

15. Gird your loins folks sadly it is going to get much worse.

It is incumbent on all of us to do what we can for these people.

[Oslo]

16. Appalling: covered in Foreign Media not US Media! n/t

[Gonnuts]

17. What media? - Oh, you mean Corporate Shills?

This morning I got through on C-SPAN with an editor and journalist from the AP. I mentioned that there's a not unwarranted perception that the media in this country is now nothing more than a shill for a faux-fascist government posing as a democracy and pointed out the Sibel Edmonds case as an example. I asked if the journalist knew who I was taking about - he said he didn't, which of course floored me, because either he was lying or he's willfully ignorant. The commentator at this point asked me to elaborate and I went on to explain Sibel's case and how someone is the profession of journalism could not be aware of a case that was featured on 60 Minutes and the London Sunday Times did a three week front page article on exposing treason at the highest levels of our government and this so-called journalist professed to know nothing about it just proved my point.

Needless to say they cut me off at this point.

[pattmarty]

18. This IS NOT JUST BECAUSE of the sub-prime deal..............

...........if you all recall, this has been going on little by little for more than the past 7 yrs. This is just where we are beginning to see the effect of the last 30 yrs "trickling down". I blame Clinton (NAFTA and he IS a conservative Democrat), Bush Sr, Naturally St Ronnie, Carter (another conservative Democrat, although I like him NOW), and of course Nixon-Ford.

[ksquire]

19. Cripes this is crazy. I'm in LA right now... I might go and look.

[Kajsa]

20. I DID see this either on ABC or NBC

last week. I can't find a link on either website.

The city will be moving all campers who are not
Ontario residents out soon.

Where in the hell are they supposed to go?!?

This is beyond sad, it's beyond anger.

[krkaufman]

24. see Grapes of Wrath

It's sounding no different.

[Kajsa]

45. Exactly!

John Steinbeck knew about poverty.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. Bush is Hoover

[ooglymoogly]

22. If I remember my history well enough...

Hoover was in for only a year before the great depression. All the signs were already in place when he took office though he did exacerbate them. It was Coolidge I believe who along with the bankers caused the great Depression. Hoover however took the fall as perhaps he should. Coolidge was a 100% gung ho lazafare capitalist; Hover was only about 70% comparatively guessed. Just like what is happening now; Massive amounts of paper was pumped into the markets to prop it up (roaring 20's) as massive amounts of paper have been pumped into this market for the last 5 years. The makings of market falls such as 29 and now, do not happen overnight. All the gross mismanagement has to mount up and that takes yrs for a huge economy like ours, not a few months. The tragedy of this economy has been mounting since Reagan. The treasury has been pillaged by the super rich and the war machine has gotten its share or the spoils. Granted there was a respite during the Clinton years. Republicans = disaster, Democrats = cleanup and taking falls for the pugs. It took a Roosevelt to begin the clean up after the Coolidge and Hoover disaster. If I remember my history.

[krkaufman]

25. Close enough. And you got the key word right.... "pillaged" n/t

[nebula]

26. Pastor Wright is right

America IS damned indeed!

The country has been damned since at least 2000.

[greyghost]

27. Hell yes he is! The only problem, America can't handle the truth!

[nebula]

41. Americans don't give a shit about anyone but themselves

not even their fellow Americans.

[Oslo]

28. Does anyone know exactly where the tent city is?

Not just "outside Los Angeles". I think it's existence deserves specific information so we can make others more aware. The video is actually spooky, for a moment I wondered if it was even real.

[wundermaus]

35. here's one location (of many)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3XHcfHx1U

[Javaman]

30. depression, anyone?

this depression is coming on slowly. It won't be one big stock market crash or some other major event, it will be the gradual slow erosion of society.

moron* has so fucked this society and economy, that any sort of "fix" is years away. the market won't self correct for a long time to come if it ever does.

Think of this: things are bad now, but wait when gas hits 5 bucks this summer. We would still have to have a strong economy just to survive that!

he we are in the shitter. honestly, when we get hit with the one two slow motion punch coming our way ( and we see it coming, high gas prices, peak oil) how on earth are we to survive that given the the truly epic lack of action on the part of washington*?

start a garden now. get rain barrels and a water filter. learn how to solar cook.

the US now is going to look vastly different 5 years from now.

[Divine Discontent]

34. so frustrating... we have a secret village of people who live outside of town...

over 100 people. living under tarps. FL at its finest.

[nebula]

42. As usual, the Dems will do nothing

as the US homeless population begins to multiply.

[graywarrior]

36. And any one of us is just an inch away from being in the same situation

All it takes is an illness or an accident, a job loss, and death in the family.

[greyghost]

37. More coming soon to a city near you.

[progressoid]

39. BBC of course.

[redqueen]

44. Only in LA?

Maybe so far...

[Elspeth]

47. Damn the American media for not showing this.

:kick: