ECONOMIC CASUALITIES PILE INTO TENT CITIES !!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: http://www.dailypaul.com/node/92236

Posted May 7th, 2009 by Michael Nystrom



Marshall is among a growing number of the economic homeless, a term for those newly displaced by layoffs, foreclosures or other financial troubles caused by the recession. They differ from the chronic homeless, the longtime street residents who often suffer from mental illness, drug abuse or alcoholism.

For the economic homeless, the American ideal that education and hard work lead to a comfortable middle-class life has slipped out of reach. They're packing into motels, parking lots and tent cities, alternately distressed and hopeful, searching for work and praying their fortunes will change.

"My parents always taught me to work hard in school, graduate high school, go to college, get a degree and you'll do fine. You'll do better than your parents' generation," Marshall says. "I did all those things. … For a while, I did have that good life, but nowadays that's not the reality."

Kindling for the Revolution, friends. People only change when they're forced to, and the growing number of homeless are being forced to wake up to reality.

[Amethyst]

Modern day Gypsy's. This is insane!