This Is It
According to this 3.26 N.Y. Times story by Jesse McKinley, grubby-ass little “Hoovervilles” are springing up around the country to an extent that…well, that they’re warranting a story in the N.Y. Times. I could take this if things got really bad. I don’t need no Bernard Madoff McMansion. I’ll be fine as long as I have plenty of electricity for my wifi, my two computers, my scanner, my chargers, my microwave, my toaster, my coffee-bean grinder and enough space for my 42″ plasma and Bluray player. And a glass-shelved TV table to hold all this stuff.
And room for chairs, tables, a futon, blankets, cups, plates, silverware, towels, canvas chairs, etc. Plus my suitcases. And some place to park the motorcycle.
Let’s be real, Jeff. You or anyone reading or writing on your blog couldn’t handle Hooverville, let alone a studio apartment without its own bathroom.
Wells wants Edward G. Robinson’s life in SOYLENT GREEN.
Do you also need your margaritaville machine?
Reminded me of that great scene in Ron Howard’s ‘Cinderella Man’.
Some weird shit going on. Regular folk in Shantytown and Mrs. Madoff still in her Penthouse.
Welcome to the 21st century… we’re really screwed.
Jeff, I hope there would be room for your hat as well.
Judging by the sheer number of tents being purchased, wouldn’t you think that now’s the time to buy ‘Sports Authority’ stock? Let me ask my good friend Jim Cramer.
Bushvilles.
If you think the crime situation is bad with punks in Toronto, wait to see what happens when you come back late after a screening to a tent full of easily fenced stuff…
One of our neighbors has the smallest travel trailer I’ve ever seen and a single male friend of ours asks just about every time he visits how much we think the neighbor might want for it because it’s just small enough he could pull it with his jeep. “You know, just in case…”
Loved the “1 in 50 children are homeless in America” stat casually dropped last night, and how easily President Obama swallowed it.
Alas, it’s ridiculously false by any standard:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/03/25/kf-s-bs-detector-explodes.aspx
This is for you crazyeight:
Not Much Shorter Mickey Kaus:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/18966.html
Bushvilles?
You people are insane. You claim you want prosperity and then you purposely pursue policies that will lead to ruin. Take cap and trade…I’ll mean higher energy prices and more manufacturing jobs shipped overseas.
All in the name of curbing a gas that makes up .04% of our atmosphere.
Bushvilles? Give me an f—ing break. If you had your way, we’d all be living like this. At least we’d be curbing greenhouse gases, right?
Mowkeka. Log off the blog and go to a city that actually has zero carbon emissions, like Zermatt.
Try and stay in one of their luxurious properties. But you probably can’t afford to stay long.
You’ll get to experience what it’s like to breathe clean air. It might shock you, if you live in a city, to see just how wonderful it feels. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation will wake up in your lungs, with the memory of what air is actually supposed to be like.
Then go for a bite at one of the restaurants – but you probably won’t be able to afford most of them.
Before you go to bed, stop by a convenient grocery – your clerk will probably speak at least four or five languages, including japanese.
Environmentally-friendly living and economic prosperity are not mutually exclusive.
“And that’s it and that’s the only thing I need, is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that’s all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that’s all I need. And that’s all I need too. I don’t need one other thing, not one – I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that’s all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.”
“Bushvilles? You people are insane.”
Mowkeka, you’re right… “Bushville” ain’t that good… I prefer the much more pithy handles, “Shruburbs” or “Georgetowns” recommended by Talking Points Memo.
Mowkeka,
How old were you when you decided you hated America? Just wondering.
Josh–ya beat me to it. LOL
Welcome to the 21st century… we’re really screwed.
“Alas, it’s ridiculously false by any standard:”
That’s amazing, to say that one person defines one single standard (his own) — dishonestly, as it turns out — and, thus, proves to you that it is false by *any* standard?
Of course, the fact that George W. Bush is the one who set the standard by which that number was reached means that you should be accepting it as fact, and we’re the ones who are supposed to be saying that it doesn’t go far enough (for instance, it doesn’t include teenage runaways, or various doubled-up families not applying for assistance, and all sorts of fun things to be in that Kaus might think aren’t homeless either; teenager runaways aren’t homeless because they could still go home!).
Mowkeka: “Take cap and trade…I’ll mean higher energy prices and more manufacturing jobs shipped overseas.”
Energy prices are already too high. And manufacturing jobs are already being shipped overseas. The only negative will be that corporations will have to build clean products.
“Bushvilles? Give me an f—ing break. If you had your way, we’d all be living like this.”
Please. If Republicans had their way, everyone but the top 1% would be living like this, if they aren’t already. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-assistance-denied26-2009mar26,0,3416012.story
Many people are getting an education they never thought they would. What it’s like to be poor, down, practically counted out! It’s a cold cruel world out there. This is what happens when we would rather fund wars and CEOs and do away with safety nets, assuming, of course, that only the lowliest of the low will ever need them. Bottom line is, if we don’t take care of each other, if we turn our eyes away and pretend families and real people aren’t suffering in our own country — supposedly the best in the world — then we might as well admit that we are getting everything we ever deserved and more. Anyone in this situation who says we don’t need a bigger stimulus package NOW I wonder???
Massey FTW!
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