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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Beej wrote: |
| How can the construction worker guy work for thirty years and not have a nickel to his name? Construction doesnt pay that poorly. If that husband and wife duo each got a minimum wage job, they should at least be able to afford a ratty motel room. And cooking in a coffee tin? A bit much I think. All they need now is a stick, with a handkerchief wrapped around all their worldly possessions, propped against their shoulder as they walk down the road trying to catch the next empty box car. |
Debts and unwise spending. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/ |
That's an interesting comparison/contrast with the "Depression Days" camp of 73 years ago. They say today's camp is in almost the same spot as 1936.
The big difference: The 1936 camp looks more like a temporary "rest stop" for broke Midwestern farmers. Dust Bowl escapees. Grapes of Wrathers. They were en route somewhere, California was their destination and life-raft, they'd crossed the country (camping along the way) to get there. So this was just one more 'camp' on the road. They'd run out of money and the economy was bad, but one senses they hadn't lost hope. They were looking up, looking ahead, hoping to start over.
The people in that 2009 camp, though... they aren't going anywhere, literally. They're Californians to begin with, they just ended up in this particular camp because this is where we they happened to be when they fell down and out of the economy. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:33 am Post subject: |
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Where do folks with BBA's go ?
Like Wall Street pencil necks, middle managers, and bottom of the barrel MARKETING people.
ADDENDUM: Silly me. They go teach EFL abroad. |
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D.D.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| Reminds me of the movie called " They Live" with Rodney Piper. Now we just need to find the Aliens. |
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