Reply #23: I must say I feel sorry for this poster.

[jwirr]

To be this ignorant of the events in our nation is a pity. Democrat or no, you do not know about much further than your own back yard. In my area which has severe cold the housing prices are so inflated that many young families cannot afford the trailer house you are so eager to give them. They are full time workers who work low paying jobs because other jobs do not exist in our area. We are an area that has been using government money to develop housing for the upper middle class and rich for retirement while ignoring the need for affordable housing. In the process the cost of housing has risen so high that many of the low-income workers cannot afford even to pay for a rental. One of the apartments in town is a absolute dump (poor wiring, plumbing and heating)and goes for $400.00 a month plus you pay all utilities. Another home similar to this one caught fire and an innocent child burned to death because the landlord took the rent but refused to fix the electrical problems. I suggest anyone who is not up on the changes in America in the last 20+ years read, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich and "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" by William Julius Wilson. These two books are excellent documents on what is happening with the working poor.