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Tent city in Southern California.
acook
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Check this out; tent city in southern california; unbelievable….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE
Would it be too superficial to make a connection betwen the US housing bubble, and the recession now afflicting California.
Of course, it couldn't happen here in the UK.
Alice
http://ukhosebubble.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE
Would it be too superficial to make a connection betwen the US housing bubble, and the recession now afflicting California.
Of course, it couldn't happen here in the UK.
Alice
http://ukhosebubble.blogspot.com
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Where's Squat not?? He would have lengthy comment on this.
As an aside, I remember being shocked at the post New Orleans crisis when they had a Mad Max kind of scenario in the sports dome and 100 people wouldn't leave.
Perhaps society in the West is only a small disaster away from breakdown.0 -
Most of those tents look like they've been there a while, not convinced this is a new thing. Besides I bet conditions there are a hundred times better than they are in some places in Iraq.I've given up trying to get my signature to work with the new rules, if nobody knows what the rules are what hope do we have?0
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As I suspected, from the Reuters article that reported this (it pays to be a cynic sometimes):
"no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure"
http://blogs.reuters.com/gbu/2007/12/26/tent-city/
This is irresponsible journalism at it's worst and this article deliberately sets out to mislead and scare, yet the message that people take away and spread across the internet is that this has something to do with the US sub-prime mortgage crisis when it blatantly doesn't.I've given up trying to get my signature to work with the new rules, if nobody knows what the rules are what hope do we have?0 -
I know bigturnip but it's a good laugh.
Be careful by the way we have a curtain twitcher on the other thread...:eek:0 -
Unfortunately Mr B there are many people that will take this at face value and think that all those people have been turfed out of their homes, when not one of them has. Even the OP has suggested the connection. It took me about 2 seconds of searching on Google to find the truth, I'm not sure why people don't bother doing this research before perpetuating these stories.I've given up trying to get my signature to work with the new rules, if nobody knows what the rules are what hope do we have?0
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In the US there are no benefits. If you don't have a job, you're out on the streets. End of.
I have a friend who is close to this. He rents and has just been unlucky in that he's not managed to find more than temporary jobs for the last 4 years. He's now living on his credit cards alone - and so if this temp job stops he can't make any repayments on that any more ... and he will be joining them. Except he's in New York.
Our homeless would be like that if they weren't moved on.0 -
In the US there are no benefits.
Yes there are, and the amount depends mainly on the state where you live. The problem is that benefits run out - they don't go on for ever like here.This does encourage people to go and find work, but it is hard for the truly unemployable.I used to think that good grammar is important, but now I know that good wine is importanter.0
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