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Tent Cities Spring Up In LA

Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis. But if you ask me, this is only going to push us into self sustained tribes, once we stop relying on the unnatural, material system.

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MysticMan : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

MysticMan

41 votes NegativePositive

266 days 14 hours ago...

alot of the images looks like shanty towns in third world countries, and the government put billions of dollers into the war over seas. WOW they sure do have their priorities sorted out.

Probably some rich government official will complain and the cops will shredd the tents. oh that sounds familier

Victorio : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Victorio

4 votes NegativePositive

266 days 13 hours ago...

Hey man, I have always thought putting my shit in storage and squatting for a summer (in B.C that is) People do it all the time. There are squatting communities all over the mountains in West Van. There used to be anyway.

And just bank some hard cash.

But then, hey, I`m a dreamer.

bebopbren : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

bebopbren

15 votes NegativePositive

266 days 11 hours ago...

^no Victorio, you are a spoiled Canadian. You`re comment is akin to "let them eat cake". These people aren`t camping they have no where else to go.

I live in BC too.

Victorio : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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266 days 10 hours ago...

^^ I wasn`t referring to them you dick. Did I ever say, hey, they should enjoy the opportunity! No, it made me think of something I would like to do. I`m not a spoiled Canadian. Would you like to know how much a cook makes until he becomes a chef? Want to know how long that fucking takes? Minimum wage bitch. Ten years of minimum wage. So suck my poor-ass dick, I`ll be eating a slice of fucking cake while you do.

I bust my fucking ass. I was raised by a single mother of three on welfare. Let them eat cake? Not quite. I can relate to people who have nothing. I came from next to nothing so you can fucking zip it with any comment about what you know about me. You don`t know anything about me.

You`re right on one thing though. They aren`t camping. They are -squatting- and when enough people do it en mass there is one of three solutions. Arrest them, kill them, or let them stay.

If enough people "squat" (which is what my original post was about) there will either be mass arrests, protests and national calamity (cause you think people in L.A are going to be the only ones who lose their homes? No,) or there will be a renewal on how land is divided up. You can`t kill em all or arrest them all so change is inevitable. These people are suffering in comparison to whom? Other Americans? Or us spoiled Canadians.

So before you pounce on some post that your little mind can`t begin to understand and instead respond with assumptions and ignorance, think. Please.

Or did you just respond to tell everyone you live in B.C.?

If so, congrats. I`m glad for you.

exploder : LVL 47: VP 5: said:

exploder

12 votes NegativePositive

266 days 8 hours ago...

^^ Victorio: haha, bebopbren is a professional chef too, so yes I think she knows full well how much work that is (and a female one too, in a frequently chauvanistic occupation).

My first read of your first comment left me with the same impression to some extent. It`s an ambiguous comment, and given the forum it`s just as likely as not to be implying that they shouldn`t complain, because camping is nice.

I think bebopbren was just doing her duty to not let shit slip, she`s on the good side here.

I`m the one who`s gonna say it:

These people are lucky and smart to move to a camping life if they can, since they can`t afford houses. They are lucky to be in a warm place, and lucky if they have a place to camp, that`s not under a fucking bridge in a cardboard box.

Indeed, cheap homeless relief would be for the government to open places for camping, including sanitary fiacilities (unless they want a plauge). Kind of like a FEMA camp, but cheaper. That way it concentrates the problem into manageable areas. Indeed we could call them concentration camps.

I personally hope to see North America fall apart faster than the rich can take it apart to their own gain. If enough people are displaced, there will eventually have to be some kind of revolution, and that`s the only thing that is ever gonna put this right.

Both the USA and Canada are totally screwed, and it`s going to get a lot worse.

Dirt Digger : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Dirt Digger

31 votes NegativePositive

266 days 7 hours ago...

These are people that don`t negotiate a fixed rate mortgage, then go and buy a house completely out of any reasonable price range for the money they make.

I seriously doubt their ability to make "self sustained tribes".

Robbinthahood : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

Robbinthahood

11 votes NegativePositive

266 days 7 hours ago...

We have a tent city here in Ontario, CA that has been up for around 4 months. I remember reading in the newspaper about a month ago, that officials went to the grounds and forced anyone who wasn`t a resident of that city, off the tent grounds. Put them back on the streets because of city boundries, wth ?

bebopbren : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

bebopbren

16 votes NegativePositive

265 days 18 hours ago...

^^^Victorio
I guess I misinterpreted your words. and I hope you can see how easily that could be done.

I`ve been a chef longer than your candy ass I can tell you that if you are not making 15$ an hour then your just a loser or bad at your job, and yeah that is enough to live on if your anywhere close to smart. I mentioned BC because I wanted to point out to you that I understand the life. I guess that was too subtle for you. So instead of apologizing as I normally would...you can go fuck yourself you loud mouth piece of shit.

exploder : LVL 47: VP 5: said:

exploder

3 votes NegativePositive

265 days 14 hours ago...

^^ hahaha, chefs are touchy now aren`t they. Maybe we can all calm down a little and try to be on the same side?

None of us is happy with how these folks are out of house. None of us is happy with low wages. None of us is happy about the current state of affairs in our modern dysfunctional societies. So try not to blow up on fellow peons when you meet them.

bebopbren : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

bebopbren

5 votes NegativePositive

265 days 9 hours ago...

^exploder

you`re right
I`m just glad somebody, even across the pond is finally reporting on the sad state of the American economy and how it is affecting the common person.

Now we all need to do something to make a change.

Victorio : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Victorio

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265 days 4 hours ago...

bebopbren = dyke

~edit

let me clarify.

Two types of women seem to land in the kitchen. Cock hungry cry-babies and dykes. And since bebopbren talks like a man but I`m -sure- has a set of tits, one can only assume.

And If I didn`t write in proper english, I specified how much I got paid as a cook, not a chef. And bitch, the best of us often worked for -free- for a reference so your culinary chest beating is lame. I must be lousy at my job according to your lifetime salary! Don`t fucking kid me. Cause if you worked from the ground up like most of us you could relate. Or mommy and Daddy(mommy?) sent their unfortunatly dyke daughter to cooking school else she end up a fucking trucker.

Yeah. -Real- experience.

P.s get used to having a fucking vagina.... you don`t nor will you ever have a penis. "Chef" lol

bebopbren : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

bebopbren

16 votes NegativePositive

264 days 21 hours ago...

^you got issues.

exploder : LVL 47: VP 5: said:

exploder

10 votes NegativePositive

264 days 17 hours ago...

^^ Yeah, vic`s a writeoff.

From personal experience Victorio, you are wrong wrong wrong about her. BTW, she talks like a woman, you talk like an angry 13 year old trapped in a grownup`s body.

Genuinely sorry for your hard knock life, but you don`t win any friends here by being a retarded insulting asshole.

...sheds a tear...

cheers bee.

Victorio : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Victorio

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264 days 9 hours ago...

Really?

No. I have worked -many- kitchens with -many- holier-than-thou cooks. I don`t need some bitch telling me that my ideas about anything are insensitive to other people suffering.

Look at the business we work in. Constant waste, constant enrichment of other people`s lives.

And you have the gaul to accuse me of acting superior?

We are not saving lives, we cook food.

Please, get over yourself. We are -servants- first and foremost. Not doctors or peace-keepers.

So stfu

OatmealMan : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

OatmealMan

-7 votes NegativePositive

260 days 11 hours ago...

The problem is all the immigrants coming here and taking our jobs and not paying taxes. We close our borders and deport EVERY illegal and keep them out and things will get better, also not letting every teen mother go on welfare. It`s welfare families who do it cuz they are lazy and immigrants that are making things bad in the US.

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