Bushvilles - Tent cities outside L.A.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tentcity6mar06,1,3712683.story

Ontario's homeless feeling less welcome in Tent City

By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 6, 2008

After creating a sanctuary where the homeless could eat, sleep and live without fear of harassment, the city of Ontario has begun ticketing and towing away the vehicles in which many of those transients reside.

Now, some of the estimated 300 residents of the fast-growing "Tent City" feel betrayed by officials they say promised to leave them alone if they moved into the city-run encampment near Ontario International Airport.

"I think they lied to us," said Linda Parker, who lives in a crowded, battered motor home she fears will soon be towed away. "We don't want to live this way. I feel they are stripping us of our last bit of dignity. Everything I own is in here."


rest of story at link

My post a few days ago to ask thoughts for a contemporary analogy for a Hoover Hog sounded a great big digital thud.

I so much want some terms like this to enter popular parlance. They're very difficult to dislodge. I wish we could google-bomb "Bushville and Tent Cities." That's wonderful.

Any pithy alliterative terms for the George W. Bush Depression?

A Hooverville was the popular name for a shanty town, examples of which were found in many United States communities during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The word "Hooverville" derives from the name of the President of the United States at the beginning of the Depression, Herbert Hoover. They used Hoover's name because they were frustrated and disappointed with his involvement in the relief effort for the Depression.

These settlements were often formed in unpleasant neighborhoods or desolate areas and consisted of dozens or hundreds of shacks and tents that were temporary residences of those left unemployed and homeless by the Depression. People slept in anything from open piano crates to the ground. Authorities did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and occasionally removed the occupants for technically trespassing on private lands, but they were frequently tolerated out of necessity.

Some of the men who were made to live in these conditions possessed building skills and were able to build their houses out of stone. Most people, however, resorted to building their residences out of box wood, cardboard, and any scraps of metal they could find. Some individuals even lived in sewer mains.

Most of these unemployed residents of the Hoovervilles begged for food from those who had housing during this era. Several other terms came into use during this era, such as "Hoover blanket" (old newspaper used as blanketing) and "Hoover flag" (an empty pocket turned inside out). "Hoover leather" was cardboard used to line a shoe with the sole worn through. A "Hoover wagon" was a car with horses tied to it because the owner could not afford gasoline; in Canada, these were known as Bennett buggies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

except the disparity of suffering between noodles/linguine in no way compares to that in the 30s or Senior citizens forgoing food for prescription drugs. We need a Bush diet, and a Bush debit card (like you shake your child for quarters in their pockets)--really, I wish someone would come up with a 10 point list and circulate it around the net.

Pasta sauce. It seems about his speed.