Possibly with tents numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands. And that became such a halting thought that I forgot to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.
Possibly with tents numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands. And that became such a halting thought that I forgot to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.
Take a minute to look through all the photos of hoovervilles. Tens of thousands of people in tents, often with the apartments they were evicted from and the factories closed or running at a fraction of capacity within a few hundred yards in the background.
How would you explain to aliens why tens of thousands of people in every city were driven from their homes, which were left empty, to live in squalor while being prevented from doing anything productive?
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The thing about history is if you don’t want your name associated with homeless Trump Towns in every city in America, maybe don’t take a healthy economy and run it into the ground. Maybe don’t let a PE hack who has never built anything like Tom Krause near the institutions the American people rely on.
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/hoovervilles
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/
Does a healthy economy look like people choosing between food and rent? The stock markets are doing better than ever, but wages have been outpaced by rent and food since the 80s. To call an economy on a trajectory that ends in hoovervilles healthy because the capitalists are getting even richer is some neoliberal horseshit.
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@[email protected] fair point. The Biden recovery wasn’t raising all boats equally, but effort was being made to stimulate job creation in many parts of the economy. Not only have programs and grants that created jobs had their funding disrupted, we are now “potentially” paying 65K of the 2.1 million federal employees not to work for 7 months? I stress “potentially” as Elon made the same offer at Twitter and then just didn’t pay.
Nobody is arguing that Trump is better, I am stating that the working class’s boats were continuing to sink under Biden. This isn’t a turn around, this is a downwards acceleration.
They will care more about making sure he doesn’t get the “Hooverville” (i.e. naming shantytowns after Trump) treatment than actually fixing the problem.
Ah yes, 2025: the year that the shantytown returned to the US