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BBC NEWS | Americas | Tent city highlights US homes crisis — This is similar to the kinds of slums and makeshift favellas you find in the third world. The BBC News associates this development with the mortgage crisis. They are wrong. This is a result of open borders combined with an already existent homeless crisis. It’s also apparent that the middle class is shrinking to zero and will no longer be a buffer between the poor and the upper class. Next stop: Mexico City type plague of kidnappings of business executives. Get ready for that. Were you in the news because you made $200 million dollars? Expect to get kidnapped and tortured. Seriously.
Forty miles east of Los Angeles, on a patch of waste ground, is the place they call Tent City. Sandwiched between the local airport and the railway line, this really is the wrong side of the tracks.
We are on the outskirts of Ontario, California a functionally pleasant commuter-city in southern California. Last summer, local officials established this camp as a temporary base for the citys homeless population, then around two dozen.
But word spread and now some 300 people live here. It has an air of scruffy permanence, and indeed, city officials say there are no current plans to close it down.
Most residents live in tents, some in mobile homes in various states of disrepair, their possessions crammed in with them or spread out on the ground.
Note. The “no current plans to shut it down” is how the favellas of Brazil became cities within cities run by gangs. They are now too big to be removed and pose a threat to society. There was a similar type of community forming in the SF Bay Area which was luckily destroyed one night by a large-scale raid.
Found by Dan Jewell.
that tent city in Ontario closed down when neighbors complained, homeless from L.A. and other areas moved in, and there started to be reports of gang and drug violence.
Say hello to the formation of ‘misery belts’ around cities, with not only issues of crime, but also bringing issues of health safety, such as plagues. If these people live in tents, start to think what they use as toilet facilities, from where do they get water, and if that water is actually potable.
Once we have the first generation raised in a shanty slum we will have a handy source of perpetual scapegoats for the failings of society.
The Open Border Zealots have made their bed. Now they can sleep in it!
Los Angeles is becoming a “Third World city” with immigrants making up half its workforce, says a new study.
A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 per cent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found. It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California’s fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and nursing.
San Francisco is next!
There is more to this Story, then the BBC ever saw.
‘Ontario residents only’ at Tent City
http://tinyurl.com/6fcwgv
Ontario police clear out most of Tent City
http://tinyurl.com/5u8rfr
Just thought I’d provide some more background information…
[Please use TinyUrl.com for overly long URLs. – ed.]
So. What to do with those who inhabit these shantytowns (and many of them ARE NOT illegal aliens)? Round them up, put them on railroad cars, and send them to the gas ovens?
Dvorak is right, most of the those losing houses in the mortgage crisis are moving into smaller houses or apartments. This is a result of a homeless problem that has been growing over the last few years.
With food and gas prices climbing faster than wages, most of us are experiencing downward mobility these days.
A healthy society has a healthy middle class, and that is quickly not becoming the case in present day America
Sounds good. No city or property tax!
I am not far away from living in a tent. I make $30,000 a year in retirement from the government. The way things are going I am going to lose my homeowners, health and car insurance in the next few years. At the moment I maintain a few websites but that wont last much longer. I guess working for 30 years as a government laborer does not pay too well. Is it the gas ovens or the ice burg for me?
If this is because of illegals, why doesn’t Texas have these? Are there any in Arizona or New Mexico? Maybe it’s environmentalists that keep new housing from being built.
#7 – What do you do? Why don’t you ask the wise leaders of Los Angeles and San Francisco who are actively recruiting more illegals to enter their fair cities. I’m sure they have all the answers.
>>Why don’t you ask the wise leaders of Los
>>Angeles and San Francisco who are actively
>>recruiting more illegals to enter their fair
>>cities
I’m unaware of this recruitment program. Could you provide a link? Perhaps that would give me someone to ask.
They have these under the bridges in New Orleans still. Granted they have a bit more an excuse for why they started, but there are still no plans for them going away
>> The “no current plans to shut it down” is how
>> the favellas of Brazil became cities within
>> cities run by gangs.
The situation only got this bad because there were no presence of the state in the favelas.
>> They are now too big to be removed and pose a
>> threat to society.
The consensus here in Brazil is that they must be integrated into the rest of the cities they surround. It means giving people owner’s rights and bringing healthcare, schools, public transportation and police to these areas.
“Round them up, put them on railroad cars, and send them to the gas ovens?”
– Come on now Mustard, that’s too far! You’re overlooking the obvious: slave labor camps!
#10, probably not gas ovens, but at $30,000 a year, you really do not make enouph to own a house, in most metropolitan area’s, especially if you have a family. I am sorry, but thats just the way it is.
I have been their, but when you get to the point that you can no longer afford your current lifestyle (either losing a job, or some other problem), then you just have to change your lifestyle. Maybe move into an apartment, in the city and take public transportation. Cable tv might be to expensive for you now, or if you are single, it might be best to move in with someone as a room mate and split the expenses.
Their is always options, I think though, that we in America have gotten it in our head that we deserve that house, plot of land, ect. Instead of concentrating on whats important.
Hell, we’ve had several of these type of shantys in Oregon for years… They call a big one in Portland “Dignity village”… But basically all you have to do is look for a patch of woods anywhere within walking distance of something to eat and you’ll find homeless people living there.
I predicted a long time ago we would end up with an economy similar to most South American countries; you’ll either have a maid or you are a maid.
Greenspan saw this coming…he got out in time…wise man.
I wonder why the BBC did not make any comparison to the tens of thousands of traveling gypsies throughout the United Kingdom. Probably because it would make the UK look just as bad.
#16 – I didn’t read anything in any of those links suggesting that anyone is “actively recruiting more illegals to enter their fair cities.”.
They’re taking steps to make sure that people who are already there are treated like human beings. Maybe you consider that to be un-American, but I don’t.
If they REALLY were “actively recruiting more illegals to enter their fair cities”, they’d be running midnight buses across the border or something. I realize that the xenophobe right would just like to exterminate these people, or crush their spirit to the point where they exterminate themselves. Sorry, I don’t agree with that POV.
Thanks W
Mustard,
Don’t worry about benson. He just likes to troll, spouting his hatred. Don’t try to picture him ranting with the spittle running down his chin, it isn’t a pretty sight.
“Bush-Villes” !!! Even as we are headed into ANOTHER REPUBLICAN DEPRESSION (A WORD THEY WON’T USE) !!! So after taking care of his “BASE” – the MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES, Bush finds the cubboard is BARE FOR THE REST OF US !!! So much for “Compassionate Conservatism” !!!
I’m getting this recurring vision of madmaxx.
>>Dance liberal monkey, dance!
We’ll be dancing in the streets come November, Jim-boy.
This is like Global Warming. As the evidence mounts up, so does the denial by those benefiting from it (and their stooges) IN THE SHORT TERM.
Too short sighted for the rich to understand they are better off NOT LIVING in a world with rising seas dead from co2 pollution==or unable to leave their gated communities mobbed by the disposed.
The evidence mounts.
This tent city was a bad idea from the start. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
I’ve seen it a few times when going through Ontario. It is just next to the airport. If you take the Metrolink train it goes right past it. I saw it first back in Sept. 07. Within a few months it has bloomed into a huge mess.
The problem is that it started attracting bums from all over. It is the same reason Santa Monica is overrun with bums. A bunch of bleeding heart liberals in SM started feeding them and protecting them. So guess what happened? Bums from all over ended up in SM, spending their days getting drunk and stoned on the beach knowing that the bleeding hearts would feed and house them.
San Francisco isn’t much better. I was up there last week and you can’t walk 10 feet without some bum hitting you up for money. It is disgusting.
Gee… can you tell I’m not a big of these idiots?
#32–Ron==any ideas on what to do with the bum problem, or the bottom 5% (growing all the time) portion of the population?
What DO we do with the poor?
stupid rich people don’t think i deserve a decent living with my six children. i wish there was a way we could just tax the rich so i wont take any money from the middle class. those people in the tents are american and they should get some sort of welfare check and free heath care. why should only rich people get health care? it would be cheaper to give them all health care now rather than waiting for them to go to the emergency room.