Re:57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)
by leereeves on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:42AM
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Trying to place the blame for this on Republicans is dishonest. Shantytowns have existed for years, and Democrats haven't done much to help. For example:
> In December 2014, the city of San Jose shut down what was then America’s largest homeless camp — a shantytown that stretched for sixty-eight acres along Coyote Creek where a few hundred men and women were living in tents, shacks, treehouses, and adobe dugouts.
Re:57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)
by emodendroket on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:47PM
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Hoover could have, with some justification, claimed that the term "Hooverville" was unfair when the situation was hardly of his own making, and yet he got stuck with it. Ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere.
https://apnews.com/9309128222ab4c4f92b0d0022e1ec133/In-shado...
The Hoovervilles are back. Maybe we should just call them Trumpvilles now.
When your business does not pay the workers enough to survive, do the job, and have a roof over their heads that isn't just that of a car? I think we know who the real leech upon this world is. Hint: not the guy tightning his belt by sleeping in his car.
"Savings? People have to think about what they'll do with extra money?! Brother, I'm just trying to find my next meal." -Average American in 5 years.