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Cleita

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15. If you haven't seen Elysium go see it.

Reply to Archae (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 14, 2013, 10:32 AM

Aug 2013

It's supposed to be in Los Angeles 150 years in the future. It was filmed in the largest garbage dump in the world in Mexico. This is how poor homeless people live today in that country. Some of the poor homeless spend their whole lives there. When the affluent can go out and buy purses for the same price of many people's yearly wages, there is something very wrong with our society. We are becoming Mexico. Poor people don't choose to be unsafe. We have done better in the past and need to kick out all the billionaire supported politicians in our government and go back to the progressive tax system we had before Nixon in order to bring back the social programs that once made homelessness something that happened in other countries, not ours.

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Who is burning down the Fresno Homeless Encampments? [View all] annm4peace Aug 2013 OP

Photos of the US Third World. I wish I was wealthy, they would all have a home. Mnemosyne Aug 2013 #1

Which raises an excellent point. The largest concentration of billionaires on earth Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #6

Those billionaires do not notice. They need to be called out, but who, that they would ever hear, Mnemosyne Aug 2013 #10

The only way I can think of is for people all over the areas they live in to constantly Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #11

Encampments outside their gated communities. Of course, they will use extreme force to end any Mnemosyne Aug 2013 #13

I was thinking more along the lines of the people that are in contact with them. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #14

good point annm4peace Aug 2013 #23

I know. So few of these are ready to see or hear what is. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #30

Abusing the poorest of the poor is pure evil. eom Cleita Aug 2013 #2

Yes, it is. avaistheone1 Aug 2013 #4

my guess: a teabagging asshole Skittles Aug 2013 #3

I'm not surprised by the damage. Archae Aug 2013 #5

and very unsafe. Niceguy1 Aug 2013 #7

the local paper the Fresno Bee doesn' t alway print the truth. annm4peace Aug 2013 #25

from 2011 article of City helping the homeless. (not) annm4peace Aug 2013 #27

If you haven't seen Elysium go see it. Cleita Aug 2013 #15

for many it is their home annm4peace Aug 2013 #24

Drug addicts, assholes or teenagers... Sotf Aug 2013 #8

Ugh. Your post is just ugly. People don't choose to Cleita Aug 2013 #16

I think you misunderstood... TeeYiYi Aug 2013 #18

Who is arguing with you... Sotf Aug 2013 #20

Wow... this is so horrible. It looks like a war zone. How can austerity be an answer to anything? midnight Aug 2013 #9

All the while occuring under a Democratic President. Safetykitten Aug 2013 #12

My guess would be somebody who has spent time living in one of these encampments RZM Aug 2013 #17

Horrific. And that the city wants to drive them out too is just disgusting. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #19

+1000 Cleita Aug 2013 #21

One of the bigger problems is how the "news" media shows them. Archae Aug 2013 #22

why can't the cities set-up a tent community for these people. Use the military surplus from the war Sunlei Aug 2013 #26

the City believes the Homeless shouldn't exist annm4peace Aug 2013 #28

There are many answers to your questions of what is happening in Fresno annm4peace Aug 2013 #29

these camos can't remain as they are Niceguy1 Aug 2013 #31