It Cost's alot of Money to be Poor in the US

Tent City in Sacramento, California

 Over 1 Million People in the United States are estimated homeless!

We'll like everything else these days. . . . it costs alot of money to be poor in the United States of America!  I actually think of myself as pretty much middle class or at least on most days-

I've been noticing over the past 15 years that "Tent Cities" are popping up all over the United States-

These days being homeless isn't just for  Hobo's anymore but so many families with children are homeless living in homeless shelters & these tent cities all across the United States.

Camp Take Notice, Ann Arbor, Michigan

In 2013 the U.S. gave away some 100 Billion dollars to countries all over the world. In addition to all the homeless - many of them are veterans - there is always the subject of the abject poverty in hundreds of U.S. inner cities.

WHERE THE HELL IS THE OUTRAGE over this?

Washington State

I can't be the ONLY one who sees the immoral, UN-constitutional and criminal nature of what our congress does with our tax money, when they give it away by the billions and billions every year.
Rotten organizations like U.S.A.I.D. petition congress for the funds and congress always approves it.

Then it goes to foreign governments who ultimately don't even feed their people with it, but use it to strengthen their hold on the populace.

Sacramento

And does anyone wonder why during this "sequestration" that foreign aid has not even been mentioned?  While they cut more domestic things like air traffic control and White House Tours???

I seen a guy struggling at 7-11 to try to pay for his coffee yesterday before he went to work.  He was actually counting his pennies so I ended up just buying his coffee for him  (I love my coffee too)-

Reno Nevada

I have a hard time sleeping so some nights at 1-3AM I usually take the dog for a walk.  Last week the dog was growling at something in the shadows, when I shined the flashlight in that direction, there was a guy, his wife, and 2 small children sleeping on the sidewalk covered in blankets-

They say the average family in the US lives week to week, and most are only 2 weeks away from being homeless-

 Urban slums may seem like a distant problem only facing poor countries, but the United States  has a history of informal settlements all its own!
 

Lakewood NJ

Tent cities have existed as emergency shelter for thousands of years, often amassing in the wake of natural disasters, political purges, wars and other human catastrophes. For example, the Great Depression caused unprecedented unemployment rates worldwide and forced many American families to live in shanty towns—known as “Hoovervilles”—some of which still exist today as tent cities.

 

Denver

Around the world close to one billion people live in informal settlements or “slums.” By some estimates that population is expected to double by 2030. Residents of slums live in extreme poverty despite being located in industrialized urban centers such as Rio De Janeiro, Istanbul, and Cape Town.

Characterized by squalor, overcrowding, high crime rates, and a lack of basic human needs, slums are a more visible and permanent relative of the tent cities we have right here in the Northwest.
The tent in all its forms is a symbol of human adaptability and self-reliance. Millions of nomads, anarchists, and survivalists have chosen to live on the fringes of mainstream society for as long as society has proliferated and forgotten them. Their encampments are small and practical, often camouflaged in wooded areas. Outsiders rarely find them.

Recently, other tent communities have emerged in plain sight in New York, London, and Cairo as part of the Occupy the World movement, protesting social and economic inequality. Given a rare, short-lived public voice, many homeless individuals and families joined the ranks of the protesters.

Seattle Washington

These impromptu and illegal tent cities were ceaselessly raided and ransacked by local police, but what happened to the homeless people when the protest was over?  Those with tents just continued living in them; those without returned to the streets.

If we don't unite and fix this problem in our society, us here in the United States may see our children, or their children, living in these!

Here's a "Partial List" of Tent cities already in the United States (I've tried listing them all at first but there are just too many in the USA to do so:

• Side Street in Dignity Village, Portland,
• OregonCamp Quixote,
• Olympia, Washington State
• Camp Take Notice, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Dignity Village, Portland, Oregon
• New Jack City and Little Tijuana, Fresno, California
• Nickelsville, located in Seattle
• River Haven, Ventura County, California
• Safe Ground, Sacramento, California
• Temporary Homeless Service Area (THSA), Ontario, California
• Tent City, Lakewood, New Jersey
• Tent City, Avenue A and 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas
• Tent City, New Jersey forest
• Tent City, banks of the American River, Sacramento, California
• Tent City 3, Seattle
• Tent City 4, eastern King County outside of Seattle
• The Point, where the Gunnison River and Colorado River meet
• The Village of Hope and Community of Hope, Fresno, California
• Transition Park, Camden, New Jersey
• Camp Unity , Kirkland, WA
• Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee, 

Well I hope will make people more aware!  :)