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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:22 AM Original message |
With shelters full, Salvation Army directing families to live in the woods |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. NO. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
2. Ahh.. Life in America..where the poor are feral and the rich are fecal n/t |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
3. We have so many empty houses in my community. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Ours too. In our "nice" neighborhood, there have been five foreclosures and multiple bank sales |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Ours too. In our "nice" neighborhood, there have been five foreclosures and multiple bank sales |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. And empty office buildings, and empty malls. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. 50 homeless were living in a closed Car dealership that burned down recently |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Some of the comments posted to that story are truly vile. nt |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I bet. Sometimes I avoid the newspaper forums. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:08 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Newspaper forums are loaded to the hilt with foot-shooting Freep-ass fucksticks. |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Yesterday, my husband drove down a street I used to |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Ah, but "private enterprise/private capital" own those empty houses. |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
8. I always wonder how the family or friends of people like these can |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I worked with homeless families in the past. Most of the time, they had family in town |
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freshwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:51 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Depends on the family. Some just won't be bothered, no matter what anyone thinks. People are weird. |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. We got a tent city in these parts. |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
16. Could cooperatives be formed that would buy up houses |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
18. Unbridled Capitalism is paradoxically forcing us into Communism. |
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whoneedstickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 12:19 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. FDR saw this dynamic occuring in the 30's, he 'saved' capitalism from itself... |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
19. A lot of this has been going on for years... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
20. This country is in seriously sad shape. |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
21. Back to Hoovervilles |
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