Shanty Towns Springing up In America.

scop · 21-08-2009 12:46AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8

Modern America.

rossie1977 · 21-08-2009 12:46AM

probably just a few music fans on the way to oxygen, got too drunk, got lost, so decided to set up camp

brendansmith · 21-08-2009 12:52AM

American has to go through some kind of..................radical change. Please stand by as looters that what they want.

WHY?
REALIZE, REAL EYES, REAL LIES!
LIES!

JONJO THE MISER · 21-08-2009 12:53AM

CCCP^ wrote: »

I went to Seattle in about 2003, landed at Tacoma-Seattle International and took the freeway into Seattle. On the way in, we could see little tents in the hills near the road. It was a sobering experience. Here we were, in the richest country in the world, where supposedly anything was possible, and people were living in huts of galvinised steel and plastic in the pissing, freezing, relentless Pacific Northwest rain. And this was well before the Credit Crunch. I don't want to imagine what it's like there now.

Yeah ive been in Seattle many times, it has a big homeless problem.

stovelid · 21-08-2009 12:54AM

Overheal wrote: »

Galvanized Steel and Plastic beats the hell out of soggy cardboard though. Eh? Eh?

Spot on.

A temporary housing structure made of galvanised steel and plastic is far more suitable to the US homeless demographic.

The walls of a cardboard shack could never sustain the weight of a stuffed gun cabinet.

kumate_champ07 · 21-08-2009 12:58AM

Napoli wrote: »

You're dead right Jonjo, it's an absolute disgrace. You can bet the same people sleeping in those tents would be the first to sign up to the army to fight for their country if another war started. Poor gullible suckers and this is how America treats them.

What part of the USA did you live in Jonjo if you don't mind me asking?

well they can sign up now cant they?

Overheal · 21-08-2009 01:00AM

brendansmith wrote: »

American has to go through some kind of..................radical change. Please stand by as looters that what they want.

WHY?
REALIZE, REAL EYES, REAL LIES!
LIES!

No more Machine Head for you.

stovelid wrote: »

Spot on.

A temporary housing structure made of galvanised steel and plastic is far more suitable to the US homeless demographic.

The walls of a cardboard shack could never sustain the weight of a stuffed gun cabinet.

nice :pac: i didnt see that coming.

kumate_champ07 · 21-08-2009 01:03AM

CCCP^ wrote: »

I went to Seattle in about 2003, landed at Tacoma-Seattle International and took the freeway into Seattle. On the way in, we could see little tents in the hills near the road. It was a sobering experience. Here we were, in the richest country in the world, where supposedly anything was possible, and people were living in huts of galvinised steel and plastic in the pissing, freezing, relentless Pacific Northwest rain. And this was well before the Credit Crunch. I don't want to imagine what it's like there now.

the American Dream cant exist for everyone
for it to be available , the opposite must also be available.

ask not what your country can do for you.... kinda ironic isnt it?

Resi12 · 21-08-2009 01:03AM

I think the speech from one Boston Legal episode summed up the cost of the war perfectly(Not sure how accurate this is now, but it was damn good).

Free health insurance for every uninsured family, $124 billion.

Convert every single car to run on ethanol, $68 billion.

Primary education for every child on the planet, all of them, $30 billion.

End hunger in America, $7 billion.
We have to talk about the cost of this war in terms of human lives.

kumate_champ07 · 21-08-2009 01:04AM

stovelid wrote: »

A temporary housing structure made of galvanised steel and plastic is far more suitable to the US homeless demographic.

corvette?

rossie1977 · 21-08-2009 01:10AM

i know its not the exact thing we are discussing but las vegas blogger vegasrex did a piece on vegas' tent city a few weeks back, interesting read http://www.casinoguide.com/blogs/lifeinvegas/blog/off-strip/skid-row-of-vegas/

JONJO THE MISER · 21-08-2009 02:58AM

Good man Andy, you will sleep well tonight.

Bandit12 · 21-08-2009 07:56AM

Yes we can :rolleyes:

DublinWriter · 21-08-2009 08:02AM

More shocking still is the recent phenomenon of people in the states living in their cars.

Bandit12 · 21-08-2009 08:07AM

Karma TBH

Caoimhín · 21-08-2009 08:07AM

Sure isnt there shanty towns in Ireland, what the hell do yous think Tallagh is?

snubbleste · 21-08-2009 08:11AM

This is old news, this version started two years ago in the states.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7297093.stm

It's just Rté had a slow news day so they ran with it and then somebody heard it for the first time and thought :eek:

uberwolf · 21-08-2009 08:20AM

murfie wrote: »

This is news to me and i see other that live in the US, Charlie knows more about whats going in the US then its own media. I doubt this story, or there is much more to it than it being people that have recently lost their jobs

what about people in jobs who can't afford homes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8186690.stm

walshb · 21-08-2009 09:05AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Just on RTE News there, Charlie Bird was reporting about A shanty town of tents in Flordia made up of people who have lost there jobs and there homes have been foreclosed, the woman says they dont take Families and that Hundreds of Families turn up eveynight looking for food and tents:eek:, Charlie says that there are shanty towns springing up all over America, what a absolute disgrace America is, instead of looking after there own people they prefer to spent Billions on war and bailing out the rich, and people call it the greatest country in the world, yeah right, give me Ireland any day.

Ah, sure Niall Mellon and the generous Irish will fix that problem....

stovelid · 21-08-2009 09:37AM

Caoimhín wrote: »

what the hell do yous think Tallagh is?

Misspelt?

murfie · 21-08-2009 02:25PM

uberwolf wrote: »

what about people in jobs who can't afford homes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8186690.stm

Shouldn't you have said what about people that cant afford Two home

I met mechanic Dana Hayes, who, each week, leaves his wife and home in Utah and lives a frugal life in a small neat trailer.

He can sleep, cook and wash with relative ease, but it is cramped, lonely and there is little to do.

"It's tough sometimes," he tells me. "It's better being home. I built a big home up in Utah... [But] it's better than paying rent... at least you can put a little money aside for retirement or something."

Fair play to him, its what he has to do to support his family, cant get a job in Utah well move to where the jobs are. He just chooses to keep his home in Utah still.

Homeless people is not a new thing, Ireland for sure has its fair share. Some even making a better living at it than people employed, professional beggars if you will.

Overheal · 21-08-2009 02:59PM

murfie wrote: »

Shouldn't you have said what about people that cant afford Two home

Fair play to him, its what he has to do to support his family, cant get a job in Utah well move to where the jobs are. He just chooses to keep his home in Utah still.

Homeless people is not a new thing, Ireland for sure has its fair share. Some even making a better living at it than people employed, professional beggars if you will.

I'm reminded of someone my Dad worked with. They were on something silly, like $80/hr or something, with Overtime and Sundays. He slept on a mattress he kept in the back of his 94' truck/suv monstrosity. Strange fellow. But it was kinda smart, not having to pay rent or mortgage or light or heat.

kumate_champ07 · 21-08-2009 02:59PM

Caoimhín wrote: »

Sure isnt there shanty towns in Ireland, what the hell do yous think Tallagh is?

Tallagh is a scenic low key area in Co Mayo with modern housing and room for expansion.

Reindeer · 10-09-2009 06:24AM

Caoimhín wrote: »

Sure isnt there shanty towns in Ireland, what the hell do yous think Tallagh is?

I spent the better part of a year in Tallaght. I don't know any place in the states that is quite so much a sh|thole. Council housing IS project housing. It gathers all the poorest of society into one concentrated area. Jobstown, Fettercairn, etc All it does is keep the poor comfortably away from the wealthy, albeit at the cost of the wealthy. Some say it is a small price to pay to stuff the poor into areas that can be controlled and labelled. At least in the states they have few places like these anymore. Nowadays scumbags are on their own there VS causing trouble courtesy of the state here. A better system if you ask me.

Shanty Towns Springing up In America.

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