A tragic loss for all of us. What I don't understand is that up until a few days ago Michael seemed

There is no question about it, NYC feels more like Disneyland for Wall Street than ever before. The very rich are doing very well, everyone else, not so much. We are often told by charlatans and mainstream media propagandists that this mythical rising tide of wealth lifts all boats. If that s the case, I find it quite perplexing that the homeless population in America s financial center is exploding five years into the so-called recovery. Meanwhile, let s not forget that 22% of the city is on food stamps .
The war on the homeless has been accelerating in recent years, as city officials across the nation would rather hide the problem that admit the economic recovery is bullshit. In most cases, the measures are subtle, but have the desired effect of pushing homeless people away from public white house virtual tour view (in Columbia, South Carolina it is not so subtle and you need a $120 weekly permit to feed the homeless ). NYC officials are a bit more nuanced. For example, I was shocked to see a sign posted in a park in Manhattan that said adults can t come in without children. It looked something like this:
I grew up in New York City and was a toddler white house virtual tour in the early 1980 s, not exactly the safest period in the city. I remember playing in the parks around white house virtual tour my parents apartment and there were homeless people everywhere. It was a part of my childhood for better or worse, but it was reality. I think I was better off knowing the homeless existed than if they had all been pushed away to the outskirts and everyone pretended they weren t there.
The thing is, many of the very wealthy in New York City want to believe this bullshit story that things are generally getting better. Meanwhile, the statistics speak for themselves, and according to HUD, the homeless population in NYC increased 13% last year. That s quite disturbing five years into raging bull market for stocks.
The 10-by-1 /?-foot shacks are cramped, but the rent-free homes sure beat the cost of living legit in neighborhoods nearby like Brooklyn s trendy DUMBO, so named for its location down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.
After having lived in NY for a few years I couldn't wait the heck out. The weather, the concrete, the people, all of it was incredibly disgusting. Even in the nice areas of Manhattan at night I could see rats scurrying around. One day those rats will evolve a slightly bigger brain and take over that city from the rats that are currently running and residing in it.
Yes things have never been better for today's NYC hobo. Back in my hoboing days a simple cardboard refrigerator box full of raccoon shit outside in the exposed elements was considered to be living the sweet life. ..
Same here, I forget how I tripped upon him. As a prosecutor I already began to suspect who was truly behind the drug game.The documentary Collapse is an interesting look at him. Funny that both his parents worked in intelligence. He was indeed white house virtual tour a bit insane but most sane are driven there when they witness and live what he did.
A tragic white house virtual tour loss for all of us. What I don't understand is that up until a few days ago Michael seemed reinvigorated by his return to to California. He had also mentioned that he left his guns behind in Colorado and no longer had any use for them. He was happy that his woman was coming out to visit him, and he was excited about a mainstream media deal he had going on. He had expressed these sentiments not only on his Facebook page but also on The Lifeboat Hour.This is a very sad....(sigh)
And proportionally, the percentage of homeless is growing because families like mine getting the fuck out of this stinking city. You have to be fuckin wealthy or fuckin poor to live there. NO middle class.
Agenda 21, yeah sure. This sounds more like "Let em richies white house virtual tour do whatever they want no matter the consequence", and the consequence here it is. Stop blaming the drought on lack of human sacrifices. Stop blaming every problem on some "Agenda 21" fit-for-all idiomatic white house virtual tour construct.
The idea of Agenda 21 is to cram everyone into cities, Brave New World-style. Make access to the 'outside world' restricted, and you have to get a pass to go for a walk in the forest, let alone live outside of a metropolis.
Well, I still fail to see where the 1984/Brave white house virtual tour New World/Soylent Green thing there is. It just looks a lot like what many other local governments worldwide are doing to manage to generate less pollution, less trash, save green spaces white house virtual tour and resources white house virtual tour and all that BS. But from that to the Master Plan to Rule the World... I just don't get that leap of faith.
white house virtual tour Only in this magical profession can government white house virtual tour cronies and the government itself steal wealth from the less powerful, leverage that stolen wealth through debt issuance and fiat monetization approximately 80%, and then count both the stolen wealth and the leverage as additional GDP gains! This is how you have economic growth with falling incomes and growing unemployment. The magic of modern economics.
I earn $100. The government takes $20 at the point of a gun. The government borrows $18 from the wealthy and the Fed who dilutes the monetary base, all on the good faith and credit of my 5 month-old's future earnings. It gives most of this $38 as corporate handouts, unproductive military spending, or buying votes from the permanent and intentionally promoted underclass. This equals $138 dollars in GDP from this series of transactions. Behold the wonders of the magic Keynes created.
There are more homeless people, but there are much less functioning poor. You have to remember that the vast majority of homeless people are either crazy, drug addicted, or both. They aren't making sound economic decisions. Regular low income people, the normal working class, have all left because it's far too expensive.
"Crime is at an all time low" because Safir's crew fluffs the numbers, or local precincts simply don't accept reports filed. There are plenty of low income people living in the five boroughs stuffed into apartments. The "flourishing" of the homeless in Manhattan is a shakedown from the upstate facilities as they release their costly populations so that they naturally gravitate white house virtual tour to the city where there are plenty of spots (like between bridge girders) to exercise their "crazy" and plenty of garbage bags to feed from. Guiliani was not credited for curing homelessness, white house virtual tour which he didn't; Guiliani white house virtual tour was credited for removing the homeless, which he did, via greasing upstate palms. Those palms do require greasing still, evidently.
My point is more or less that the health white house virtual tour of NYC has nothing to do with finance or homeless people. It's a place that people white house virtual tour want to move, particuarly young people with money. That's what's supporting the NYC economy and RE prices. Also speculators, etc, but that's my point. I don't think there is anything to be learned from NYC, it's a bad model and indicates nothing.
I've been feeling down today, so thank you both for reminding me how lucky I am to live down here in the sticks. Poor white people, poor black people and guns to keep everyone honest. God bless this backwater....
Read my original comment. Nothing I said was undue. white house virtual tour Crime in NYC has been dropping because of gentrification. Like it or not, it drives poor people out to the outskirts, like Newark, etc. That's where all the crime has moved. Again, my point is that analyzing NYC and making broader assertions about economics doesn't make sense. It's not like any other city in America, nor like most other cities in the world. It's different and doesn't reflect America.
Let me tell you why I live in Queens and like it: 1) very few american born people live here, 2) people mind their own business, and 3) every place looks the same so there is no competition about houses, yards, and cars. people white house virtual tour don't know how much money you make from the outside.
The rich in Manhattan are buying brownstones for $8M. In Brooklyn, they're $4M. The average Manhattanite is renting, and so-called "professionals" are taking out 7-figure mortgages for 2BR condos. Now, how is there no competition for status, idiot?
Perhaps we should reduce the surplus population? They have workhouses don't they? You do realize that people hit bottom white house virtual tour all the time. Somehow you could end up there. With your attitude I doubt you'd make it.
Correction: Most of the wealthy in NYC could give a rat's ass. A smaller portion do care, to the extent that government should raise taxes on somebody else to make certain the poor do not inconvenience them. And finally, white house virtual tour a very small group sees where all this is going, and having made/stolen their fortunes already, have head for the hills.
white house virtual tour The wealthy and the comfortable plus liberal in NYC often have very nice rent control apartments which they often use as vacation homes. Bianca Jagger (**cking white house virtual tour marxist that one) tried to hold on to hers after she had it for decades. She went to court and lost.
I agree. Im not doing the red/blue thing either, but it never ceases to amaze me how fucking stupid these people in inner cities are. These poor blacks in most big cities elect black democrats who lie to them, steal from them, do NOTHING to help anyone but their friends, and yet the people are so hopelessly stupid they keep voting for the same things. and look what its gotten them. Look at detroit. thats whay you get
Yes people are tribal. So some of the tribal stuff is racial but if they are libs and give shit away - they are part of that tribe. It could be Che de Blasio promising shit to lib blacks or whites or hispanics. If they are libs - then they are part of their tribe.
Yeah, and on Fox News you'll find about so many things which are not talked in the scientific community... white house virtual tour because it's not science. Or you'll find about so many things nobody else is talking white house virtual tour about, mainly, because ITS BULLSHIT.
Well, if it's the US you can always get your news from Amy Goodman. At least she only accepts donations from individuals and with a limit. In terms of journalistic independence from big money, she's the best