I suppose the headline speaks for itself. While Obama and Lloyd Blankfein et al are congratulating themselves for saving the world for crooked bankers, the rest of us are dying slowly.
Record job losses and foreclosures helped push more than 170,000 families into homeless shelters in 2009, up nearly 30 percent since 2007 when the recession first gripped the nation, a government report released Wednesday shows.
While the total number of homeless people on any given night fell by 5 percent from 2008 to 2009, the number of homeless families increased for the second straight year, according to the 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress prepared by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"Throughout the course of a year, approximately 1.56 million people found themselves without a place to call home," said Mercedes Marquez, HUD assistant secretary for community planning and development.
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This is now the country we live in: a corporatocracy that sees bankers as worthy of saving and flushes families down the nearest toilet.
I have been ashamed of our leadership before - often - but I have spent the last few years being ashamed of America's pornographic sell-out of its values, decency, and prospects of hope for a mealy-mouthed promise that we'll have gas for our SUV's. We have become everything we used to fight against. Maybe we're getting the Tea Party we deserve. (Via Mark G)
I am now officially ashamed to be an American, and I thought that could NEVER happen.
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