LAKEWOOD, N.J. – While millions of Americans hold their collective breath as Wall Street wreaks havoc with their life savings and retirements, residents of Tent City, a tiny makeshift community about 70 miles south of New York City, have more immediate concerns: finding their next hot meal.
For this collective of homeless and unemployed former landscapers, service industry workers and military veterans, the mention of “tarp” is sure to start a conversation about temporary rooftops, rather than a debate over President Obama’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
At Tent City in Lakewood, N.J., very few are lucky enough to leave.
It seems like a scene straight from “The Grapes of Wrath,” but this is no Great Depression novel. This story takes place in 2011, and this New Jersey tent city is one of an untold number of such encampments across the United States, where unemployment has reached 9.3 percent and approximately 3.5 million people are likely to be homeless in a given year, according to the most recent estimates by the National Coalition for the Homeless.
h/t to Dave G
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If there were a repub in office now this would be on the nightly news 2-3 times a week.They would probably send their anchors to the tent cities so they could read the news in front of this……..I remember the stories on the news when Regan was in office. We truly do have a state controlled media in the USA..
We have a media controlled state! The corporations that own the media have their own agenda and reporting news is not part of it although making news of exaggerating minor issues is part of what they do best.
I watched this at a local level for over 40 years.
It’s profound how President Barack Obama is playing such utopian delusional games with the monies of an entire nation of 300,000,000 people.
He will not be reelected. But the worst of his designs is yet to some.
Strange how things change. When Eisenhower was seen on the golf course people didn’t think like they do today. The media portrayed him as disconnected and unplugged from the day to day workings of the government.
Barry is swooned over by his sycophantic groupies who think he is Tiger Woods (before the scandal).
I wish they were all playing golf, all the time. It is cheaper for the taxpayers.
The article inaccurately attributes TARP to Obama. Well, he did vote for it, but the major forces behind it were President W. Bush and that crook Henry Paulson, and it was a bipartisan vote in favor of that bullshit piece of legislation.
It had to be bipartisan, Pelosi became speaker of the house and the democrats had both houses the last two years of Bush…..
…you know, the last two years when Bush’s presidency went to sh*t
Maybe shitTIER. The rest was shit too.