Posted on 08/01/2011 3:24:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Thousands of middle-class U.S. families are being forced to sleep on floors in public buildings because so many have lost their homes and jobs in the economic crisis.
These shelters were once the preserve of drug addicts and alcoholics but now normal Americans are having to bed down in halls and corridors as they have no other place to go.
An investigation has also found many from the Midwest are spending their benefits to stay in motels for up to ten days a month to avoid having every night on mattresses surrounded by dozens of strangers.
Experts say that these middle-class people are from 'the boom suburbs that have now gone bust'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I just spent 15 minutes posting a reply about what I may have to do myself but I felt it would be too depressing and would paint myself as someone looking for sympathy.
Every agency wants its revenue, and they are coming, if you are behind they will find a way to strip you of everything, even if the net income is minimal.
The tax man cometh, and they are hiring.
Actually it was .4%...but you take out QEII and stimulus...actual growth is negative.
You can get growth from point A to point B by either having point B higher or having point A lower.
When the latest GDP numbers were announced, the numbers for both previous quarters were lowered.
Nobody in DC wants to correlate the rising debt ceiling with declining jobs.
The rising debt ceiling has two consequences....
more regulation ...
to occupy employees in expanding federal bureaucracies...which expand because “they have more money” and another layer of bureaucrats need their 20 year promotions... Each round of regulatory expansion is the effective equivalent of another targeted tax increase on the object of the regulation.
more taxes...
The rising debt ceiling has demands and expectations of creditors for new elements of “revenue raising” by the Feds...taxes or fees.
In this strangling environment job creation is simply NOT possible.
In fact the only logical conclusion..can be ..is that the Federal apparatus -initially an asset to the United States..by virtue of its abilities to raise an effective Navy in the late 1700’s, and early 1800’s to facilitate overseas trade on behalf of the States, has become nothing other than the States greatest liability at this point in time. In the absence of profound regulatory and taxation reform-which is not capable of coming from the same minds that created the problem..we may well be at the end of the line.
For DC to face this fact...means the end of the K St-Congressional Party cycle in DC-the one that keeps repeating “2.4Trillion” as their mantra.
IMHO...the only solution is a 50 state secession from DC at this point...with a completely new “Constitutional Re-Federalization”...
Done? Done what? There’s no mention of this in the Boston Globe...
Dude, go ahead. You disclaimed, above -- so post.
It might be therapeutic for you and instructive for us.
Barryvilles.
Why no outrage at Obama? It’s Bush’s fault and I’m surprised I’m the first one to say it.
I am debating whether to stand and fight the State the of Alaska or to leave for Canada.
I would not be getting a better deal in Canada, its just the closest country away from America in my neck of the woods.
Its getting out of hand all the sudden demands from the property taxes, the IRS, the childrens services all wanting their monies in a hurry.
I have my saved summer wages income, I am NOT paying them, it would leave me penniless. Time to hit the road again for another refuge.
If I were you, I would bail to Canada and end up waiting out the storm. At the moment and near future, the State will not put up with any arguments. They will start kicking doors down and put boot to neck.
The one thing I was hoping to read from the homeless is the one thing I didn’t see in the article.
“Please help me find a job”.
:-(
I dunno, if I were a bureaucrat in a regulatory role, I’d love to sit in my office and do absolutely nothing every day except sit on the internet and post at the Free Republic.
Which would keep me from creating new regulations, enforcing existing regulations, or having anything to do with regulations at all.
I would love to see obozo make a campaign stop there!!
Welcome to Obamaville.
A trucker that can't find a job? Move on over to the Marcellus Shale region, the classified ads are packed with CDL jobs!
I wonder if the story is really true, that we have a large middle class homeless problem. If we do we are in trouble, because you are correct, it is getting worse, the great recession is now hitting state and local gov as well as the private sector.
Since when is Albuquerque in the Midwest?
Some of the people mentioned were truck drivers in New Mexico.
With the new NAFTA trucking rules, they are out of a job. Mexican trucks can cover that area for a fraction of the cost.
Things are decent here, but in other areas where my family live there are a lot of “ghost” people. They are homeless, but the kids still go to school and they dress well. They are also unemployable, since they have lost their address and many companies won’t hire someone who has been laid off.
My neighbor has taken his son’s family back in because of a similar story.
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