Here are the true signs of this "economic recovery"

[Hugabear]

[bighart]

1. It breaks my heart to see people hurting so much

in such a wealthy nation.

[itsrobert]

2. Doesn't prove anything

You can get picture like that on any day over the last 50 plus years. Anecdotal pictorial.

[whathehell]

3. Not fifty...More like twenty five....Homelessness NOT a real problem 'til early to mid eighties. n/t

[itsrobert]

5. huh, you might have been sheltered from it

but homelessness has always been a REAL PROBLEM.

[whathehell]

8. Not in this country..

not if by "real" you mean significant numbers...

I was never "sheltered" from very much...and I'm old enough to actually REMEMBER this country

as an adult, before Reagan....My first presidential vote was for McGovern.

[itsrobert]

9. I grew up in Coastal Southern California

in the 60's and 70's. But I am guilty of anecdotal evidence, because I witness homeless first hand. Looking at the research, it is true that the homeless population escalated in the 80s

[Cleita]

10. True. They showed up on the main street half a

block from our apartment building early in 1980. It was like all of a sudden, there were people begging and sleeping on the sidewalk and they didn't go away. I remember asking my husband, "When did our city turn into Calcutta?"

[Matariki]

12. Two words: Ronald Reagan.

[whathehell]

15. I grew up in the city of Philadelphia...

in the fifties and sixties and I've also witnessed homelessness first hand...That's how I know it was

all but unheard of before the eighties.

[Hugabear]

6. Um, okay

I would retort with something but it would get deleted by the mods.

But you have to be blind not to see that homelessness and foreclosures are on the rise.

[itsrobert]

7. Is that the point of the pictures? I thought it was to disprove 'Economic Recovery'?

Let's agree people are still hurting. But you cannot deny the economy is on the mend.

[Hugabear]

13. And all the jobs that went overseas will come back?

Sorry for sounding a bit pessimistic when I know that most of these jobs are gone forever.

[Catherina]

4. Rec'd. No one should be hungry or homeless in this country! n/t

[whathehell]

16. Exactly...When it first became an "issue"...most of us thought it was a temporary phenomenon

As the years went on, we who had been brought up in a nation with the largest middle class in the world,

saw, to our disgust, that the country didn't seem to mind having a new, permanent "beggar class".

[FLPanhandle]

11. No one is saying the economy is running on all cylinders

However, it is starting to move in the right direction.

[leftstreet]

14. K&R

[maryf]

17. K&R

What are we going to do about this???