[Tokhtamish]

There is nothing I can say or do to make a fundamentally ignorant person face grownup reality. I guess I'll just have to wait till you are older and hopefully more mature. You babble like someone who has never looked for a job or paid a bill or supported a family or really faced a problem.

Homelessness like this, child, has not been a problem for decades. It has gotten to be a major problem in the past three years as manufacturing has collapsed due to "free trade" policies. Last time I checked, mayors did not control international trade policy. Free traitors would always boast that these were jobs America could afford to lose, never wondering what happenned to the people who lost them. Well, this is what happens.

Maybe when you are old enough to shave you will be able to contribute something to this board.

[Conservative til I die]

Homelessness like this, child, has not been a problem for decades. It has gotten to be a major problem in the past three years as manufacturing has collapsed due to "free trade" policies

I hate to sound cold, but then those people who have become unemployed need to find other industries where their labor will be better allocated, for their own good and society's.

I know you're making an emotional play talking about blue collar manufacturing folk (I'm picturing a John Mellencamp video in my head as I type this, "Little Pink Houses" maybe?) but I look at the example of all those programmers being hired for huge money at the dotcom's about 3 or 4 years ago. Guess what, now that the dotcom industry basically collapsed, or more accurately, corrected itself by stripping itself to the bare necessitites (the one that laid me off 2.5 years ago actually turned an operating profit this quarter, after slashing jobs from about 170 to 20 and making their software install more automated) a lot of these programmers are either unemployed or having to take lower salaries. What's the answer? To bitch and whine? To call on President Bush to protect or subsidize (like the farmers) their jobs? Ooooooooooor, to get certification and traiing in some other type of software programming?

[Gothmog]

In post #87 you said:

"...things are worse than they have been since the Great Depression." (I can't believe you said this, you really are quite amusing, like the town fool)

The New York Time's lib columnist Bob Herbert reports that at Al Gore's recent speech, Gore said:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Opinion&oid=30486

"Instead of creating jobs, for example, we are losing millions of jobs -- net losses for three years in a row,' said Gore. 'That hasn’t happened since the Great Depression.'"

Yes, you add so much to this forum mindlessly parroting Gore's nonsense. Thank you for 'contributing' so much.

It takes a real manly man (like you and your hero Gore) to so proudly display your ignorance. But don't go away mad, just go away.