"America’s New Emblem of Decay".
Shantytowns aren’t new to America. During the Great Depression, they were ironically called Hoovervilles after President Herbert Hoover.
However, at that time, Hoovervilles comprised able-bodied people who were out of work due to the worst economic crisis and highest unemployment in U.S. history. Now, unemployment is low and entry-level jobs go begging. The Bidenvilles of today are filled more by ideology and incompetence than economic duress.
The District of Columbia now has 97 “encampment sites” scattered across the city. Maybe that’s one reason why Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is calling the District a “disgrace for our country” and opposes the “home rule” enjoyed by the nation’s capital since 1973.
"Bidenvilles".
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Open-air day care centers for grown children who don't want to adult.
ReplyDeleteI bet you could fit all the homeless people in America in San Francisco. Maybe the place should just be set aside for that purpose (eminent domain, anyone?). They've already made a good start.
ReplyDeleteRemember 2020, when covid was going to erase the open air toilet demographic from the streets? When the local homeless continued to be found sleeping in storefronts it added to my doubts about the supposed lethality of the virus.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin calls them "urban campers".
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