There’s never been as wide a disparity in wealth between the young and old as in contemporary America, and unemployment amongst the young is very high. Naturally, therefore, a lot of young people are ending up on the streets.
The NY Times
SEATTLE — Duane Taylor was studying the humanities in community college and living in his own place when he lost his job in a round of layoffs. Then he found, and lost, a second job. And a third.
Now, with what he calls “lowered standards” and a tenuous new position at a Jack in the Box restaurant, Mr. Taylor, 24, does not make enough to rent an apartment or share one. He sleeps on a mat in a homeless shelter, except when his sister lets him crash on her couch.
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These young adults are the new face of a national homeless population, one that poverty experts and case workers say is growing. Yet the problem is mostly invisible. Most cities and states, focusing on homeless families, have not made special efforts to identify young adults, who tend to shy away from ordinary shelters out of fear of being victimized by an older, chronically homeless population. The unemployment rate and the number of young adults who cannot afford college “point to the fact there is a dramatic increase in homelessness” in that age group, said Barbara Poppe, the executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
The Obama administration has begun an initiative with nine communities, most of them big cities, to seek out those between 18 and 24 who are without a consistent home address. New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Boston are among the cities included in the effort.
Homeless people, the ones who are outright on the street in particular, are overwhelmingly male. I’ve been trying to find statistics breaking down homelessness by age and gender combined, and haven’t had much success, but I assume the ratio is pretty consistent across age cohorts. For obvious reasons, it’s easier for young women than young men to find someone to take them in. Additionally, more resources are available for the typical homeless female, despite the frequent (and predictable) complaints that they are not as well-served.
In the meanwhile, the war on men – particularly young ones – continues apace. Even as more young men fall into the abyss, the pressure is ratcheted up by our so-called pundits, who can barely contain their glee as more and more young men’s lives are marked by misery rather than stability and happiness.
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We vote for socialists and get the results of socialism. Shocking. Next will be people starving to death.
I was homeless once during college. Wasn’t really that bad. I knew where to sleep where no one would bother me.
Also, learned who my friends were. Some ‘close’ people to me weren’t so close after all.
Contrast the mass media image with reality. Compare “Girls” with the ‘boys’ at the rescue mission, for example.
Young men with no future … not a recipe for good times. Ask Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinnette.
Don’t worry about them, rapturous thoughts of Obama will keep them warm this winter. The Chocolate Messiah will save them all, as soon as the rest of us pay our fair share and hand over the guns.
I was homeless for a stretch after an exit from a disastrous PhD program.
I lived in my car, sleeping in different parking lots every night in order to avoid suspicion.
Fortunately It was a state with a warm climate (Texas) and I was able to bathe myself in rivers/streams in wooded areas on the outskirts of Austin.
One day while in said woods, I encountered another homeless man.
He had been divorced and to prison twice for failure to pay child support.
After leaving prison for the the second time, he left the Northeast where he formerly lived and headed South.
He managed to get a job working off the books so that he could feed himself and lived in a shack that he built for himself in the woods.
Austin is a unique city in that it has a relatively large population in a warm climate without a real suburb surrounding it. There are quite a few wooded areas right outside the city that are wilderness that you can hide away in without interference from people.
He told me he would ride his bicycle to work in the city during the day and come back to the woods at night. It was only during the few cold months (end of November to the beginning of February) that he would find someone who had an apartment to be a roommate with and live with them. The rest of the year, he lived in a shack in the woods and did his laundry at a the laundromat.
He managed to live off the grid and at least survive anonymously in a society that treated him like a criminal.
It will be interesting to see how riots would occur in urban areas when things become intolerable. I suspect many cities will completely break along economic and racial lines. Keep in mind, if we go broke, neither the police nor the military will be getting paid.
I suspect the cities where this is happening are the ultra-blues:
Boston
New York
DC
South Florida
SoCal
SF Bay
Seattle
Where baby-boomer liberals have blocked the construction of affordable housing and transportation to and from it while making driving extremely expensive through insurance and parking as they build neighborhoods that make it a necessity. That they could be so selfish as to throw their own sons into the street is beyond disgusting.
Young men with no future … not a recipe for good times. Ask Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinnette.
Or…the Middle East, and soon China. Laugh now at their hardships at your own peril.
“For obvious reasons, it’s easier for young women than young men to find someone to take them in.”
http://www.explosm.net/comics/3018/
The thing is, these men have been given a bad bill of sale. As they grow, amidst adversity; they will start to recognize what has been done to them.
It is always amusing to me to hear this pundit or that claim their party will win for generations like Carville. The the thing is, when you piss on any demographic they make choices; our young men 18-34 have been sorely pissed on.
They are not going to forget; what they decide to do is solely up to them and their discretion. In some ways, this current curse is a blessing in disguise as those who waged war on them are getting what they have demanded for so long; power over these men. Well, at least what they thought power was; but now they have to lead and are ill prepared for it as these men don’t care to hear that they are getting the benefits they deny these men. I have no doubt in my mind these harpies will fail.
In the military; I saw their PT scores and the favoritism they received ill-deserved; and often. I will never forget, I will inform my sons. The thing is; they are demanding access to power; but still don’t want the responsibility. Just benefits, and these young men are being forced to pay the heavy cost for them.
In this movement we are apart of it is necessary to keep putting the information out there as they will start to look. As we help them put two and two together; it would behoove feminists to use their political clout while they have it to try and deny men the right to vote. That is the only way they are going to get out of this without paying for it up front and in the public eye. Good luck with that!
I don’t see that ever happening; and there is a recession supposedly coming this summer. Their death grip on benefits and taxes is going to get exposed. When these young men realize why they were sent to war, why they are homeless, why they can’t find work, why they were a product of divorce, why they are denied shelter and health care, why they have no prospects, and why women treat them so terribly; we may have something akin to 14th century brothels in Italy after what I am assuming may be riots.
You can’t destroy your most necessary demographic without an effective replacement. Women are not it.
Anonymous Reader, good point.
Also in France you had the following, it looks familiar:
1. The lowering of morals and religion
2. The abandonment of real money and adoption of paper money (see John Law and the Mississippi Land bubble.) (1718)
3. An intractable and expensive world war, the French & Indian War (a.k.a. Seven Years War.) (1754-1763) (Very expensive.)
4. Financing wars and revolutions in foreign countries across the sea (the American Revolution.) (Also very expensive.)(1776.)
5. Government lying to everyone about the state of government finances (Comte Rendu) (1781.)
6. A fragile food system based on a few crops, with resulting famines and malnutritions.
7. Disconnect between the ruling elites living in their palaces and the common men.
8. An admission finally, at last, that the state is bankrupt (1786.)
9. The Estates General meets for the first time in 190 years.(1789)
10. France goes mad.
Well if these homeless guys would just wife-up the washed up former carousel-riders who are looking for younger men to round out their “have-it-all” high-powered sassy-gal lifestyles, we could solve two problems at the same time.
I’m surprised the New York Times wouldn’t point out that they were mostly men… seems like a great opportunity to discuss how men are inherently defective, don’t know how to form support networks, don’t know how to ask for help etc. I expect more from such a fine institution!
I’m sorry you are wrong here.
Historically, dying regimes always make sure their soldiers are well paid and fed.
Stalin starved everyone except the military and factory workers when his back was up against a wall in WW2.
The law enforcement budget is miniscule compared to entitlements and can be kept going much longer.
In the end the choice will be given to the men in the military: enforce the will of the government or go starve in the private sector.
Hey, if they are MGTOW….. at least they are not under the quasi-slavery of a child-support order.
Sad that homelessness is not the worst thing that can happen to a well-behaved man…
This doesn’t surprize at all & its only gonna get worse.
Young men with no future=very dangerous demographic to have around – as most historians would point out.
“I’m surprised the New York Times wouldn’t point out that they were mostly men”
Why? In liberalism, only women matter.
How is it possible that a people can become so deeply taken advantage of by patronizing socialists, and have their adult intelligence so very egregiously and flagrantly insulted by bigots ?
That america has chosen the very architect of VAWA actuated bastardy, VAWA fatherlessness, VAWA homelessness and VAWA injustice as the person to lead the administrations response to Connecticut’s child/school shooting incident is flabbergasting.
In view of the fact that father denied boys dominated and used in single mother homes invariably grow up into crazed, vengeful, depressed, rudderless, angry and inconsolable misfits … It cannot be acceptable that the very person whom’s legislative actions and gender politics lead to millions of young american boys growing into father deprived mental and development retards be the man in charge of finding solutions.
American men because they are not stupid, should be the first to know and be able to say out loud that this socialist administration is attempting to deceive and to mislead the masses. That is, into seeing the Connecticut tragedy as a problem of america lacking better gun-control … Whereas and in fact, the Connecticut tragedy, to anyone whom cares to think is quite clearly a symptom, consequent of a culture and legal infrastructure of abused/exploited fatherhood and childhood, especially son hood.
You don’t expect ransomed sons, subjected and exploited by their own mother’s profitable and deliberate isolation of them from their fathers up to manhood, to beget good results do you ? But then to add insult to injury you also expect the very person whom legally institutionalized this very odious mess in VAWA legislation to be the one to provide truthful solutions ? You will never get truthful solutions from such a person, but instead obfuscations, the results of which will be a further disarming of the masses by the socialist state.
And the socialist State, lead by patronizing chauvinists [bigots] will always hold onto its own arms, assault rifles, handcuffs, pepper spray, electric tazers, water cannon, automatic machine guns and high capacity pistols. With these weapons held over subject masses, especially husbands and fathers, the socialist state will always get its way excusing and justifying its bastardizing, enproblematizing, stealing from and abusing young boys whom it will always blame alongside their fathers for all the social problems that itself creates.
Why should homelessness, jail, incarceration and imprisonment be the only response of men and boys to these fucking socialist swine posing as leaders ?
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/19/opinion/buckwalter-poza-biden/index.html
Biden will reportedly lead the administration’s political response.
No politician could be better suited to the challenge of passing federal gun control legislation than Biden. Over the past four decades, Biden has been one of the most consistent and effective advocates of gun control and violence prevention legislation. In 1994, Biden shepherded the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act through the Senate, a near miracle six years in the making.
After Biden wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1988, Republicans quickly filibustered, blocking the bill for four years. He steered “the Biden crime bill” through the lengthy filibuster by negotiating with Republicans and making revisions. “Every single line in that bill was written with every single major Republican a part of it,” Biden said in a September 12, 1994, interview on the Charlie Rose show.”””
Let’s reclaim our rights.
Not directly linked to being homeless but certainly related
A Manwomanmyth video
Misandry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpmEnR_u1c
Whenever I read comments about those damned socialists causing all this homelessness , jail, incarceration and imprisonment of men along with the many pointless wars ( Oil ) deaths in the workplace suicides etc etc. I am quite puzzled as to why so many think this is something recent ? Do you guys honestly think none of the above happened to men under a right wing government ? Republican ?
Perhaps its a case of NARALT ? Or maybe NAGALT ? I suggest they are the same as women and feminists but hey, if you want to believe things will be better or some other government will take a dump on men but it will smell slightly better then go ahead. We can bleat whinge complain all we like, vote for the other side even. You are still not only getting dumped on but inviting it. Meanwhile the PTB don’t give a flying feck about men. Either side, they are laughing their tits off. Men are incredible suckers.
Doesn’t matter what government gets into power in the USA UK or EU Left or Right. Men get dumped on but hey, who cares, we all know NAWALT just the same as NAGALT so we keep going flogging that dead horse always hoping for some magical solution granted by the above.
I recently read an article that stated that if today’s unemployed were counted using the same methods as the government used previous to the 1990′s, the actual national unemployment in the United States would be over 25 percent! This is comparable to what it was in the bleakest years of the 1930′s depression. Back then, young men travelled all across the country by riding the rails and outside many towns and cities, you had thousands living in tarpaper shacks. This was before any type of welfare or pensions so many starved to death. During this time, there was much support for both National Socialism and Marxism in the United States as these political ideologies were seen as being more equitable to the common working man than the laissez-faire Capitalist system that was in existence at the time. The government at the time was extremely concerned about the popularity of National Socialism and Marxist ideologies among the unemployed and had both of these movements heavily infiltrated by the FBI and other government agencies. The government of today would be very careless if it did not notice the large numbers of unemployed young white men today and how if these men organized into powerful political or secret societies could very well overthrow the system. One must remember that many of these young men are the grandsons of the men who fought to take Iwo Jima or the grandsons of the men who took Americans into space. You ignore this demographic at your peril!
Third World America. A fascinating video.
Chris Hedges ( Go on Keyster tell me the guy is a cultural marxist or a socialist, you know you want to )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZE65_134g&feature=player_embedded
El B. “When these young men realize why they were sent to war, why they are homeless, why they can’t find work, why they were a product of divorce, why they are denied shelter and health care, why they have no prospects, and why women treat them so terribly; we may have something akin to 14th century brothels in Italy after what I am assuming may be riots.”
Good old history, full of useful ideas. Henry Ford was not being serious, I suspect, when he called it “bunk”.
Here’s another more recent and widely-known scenario for young men returning from a pointless war, or being subject to mass unemployment, homelessness and hunger (exacerbated by the gleeful utilisation by the 1% of scab labour from a poverty-stricken rural neighbour, in a race to the bottom).
They banded together, some were vets, some just broke and starving. To distinguish themselves from the similar roving bands of armed men paid out of taxes and subject to the will of the rent-seeking elites, for example “the police”, they called themselves “Freikorps”. The rest of that story? Well ..
I wish I could feel bad for somebody who was studying Humanities and is now homeless… But that seems like a life choice. Sort of like if I took all money and bought pumpkins and then became homeless.
Read the captain.
I’ve noticed for years how the media will only talk about something in gender neutral terms when it overwhelmingly affects men . To walk around these massive pink elephants takes an intellectual dishonesty, a cognitive dissonance, and other elements of poor character. So I’d like to state for the record that the writer of the Times article is of low character. A failure as a journalist. Fits in perfectly with the NY Times though.
Mentioning that something affects men more than women is in itself somehow “sexist” against women. Sometimes it will be mentioned in passing, a quick perfunctory statistic, but never addressed in any real detail (except if it’s a man-up shaming article).
Why doesn’t this discrepancy bother more women? How come they don’t notice it? Why don’t they say something about it? What does it say about them? “Solipsism” comes to mind, for one.
It’s not just youth.
My brother is 58, has a PhD and hasn’t worked for three years. He’s “over qualified” for menial jobs.
Living in his car, on food stamps…
No one wants to hire anybody over 45 or 50 years old.
@ madvillain
I know that this is a men’s rights forum, but I would have to say that the New York Times lost all credibility when it hired Jayson Blair (yes, I know I’m talking about a black man here and that I am a white male, but both Blair and I have bipolar disorder, so technically I’m criticizing someone in the same demographic as me).
Given how many retractions they had to print after that fiasco, you would think that their credibility would be irreparably damaged. Blair was also apparently on cocaine when writing the stories for which he did no research and did not even visit locations he said he had visited to get said stories.
The worst part is that even today, liberals like my father refuse to believe anything that is outside their own little bubble of approved media. Let’s hope their bubble burst real soon.
link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
The worst part is that Blair is now working as a life coach and apparently suffered no legal problems. Even worse is that the NYT is not thoroughly discredited almost a decade later.
I’m surprised the New York Times wouldn’t point out that they were mostly men… seems like a great opportunity to discuss how men are inherently defective, don’t know how to form support networks, don’t know how to ask for help etc. I expect more from such a fine institution!
The other Inconvenient Fact they fail to point out is that these young men are caucasian. Black and hispanic men are holed up in Section 8 housing with their relatives or baby mamas that get assistance for having so many “dependents”. They deal a little dope on the side and run hustle around the Hood.
Young women can almost always find someone to stay with because they’ll surely be raped if they’re out on the street. Domestic violence shelters are teeming with single women, some with children, typically hispanic or black with a smattering of trailer trash. Even friends of family will take a young homeless woman in because she might cook and clean and make herself useful domestically.
There is a whole generation of Millenials living in their parents basements with degrees in Humanities, working part-time delivering pizza for pot money – that will live in those homes well past their parents death.
The majority-minorities are raising families off of government subsistence. The minority-majority is not forming families. They’re “hooking-up”, on the pill, getting abortions, tatoos and body piercings. Our President was re-elected by forming a majority coalitian of blacks, hispanics and single women, versus a minority of hard working, industrious, innovative white males….heretofore known as “the rich”, who “can afford to pay a little more in taxes so all Americans can prosper”.
I’ve noticed for years how the media will only talk about something in gender neutral terms when it overwhelmingly affects men . To walk around these massive pink elephants takes an intellectual dishonesty, a cognitive dissonance, and other elements of poor character.
All the liberal media needs is a kernel of truth to be true, because that’s how bias works. If there is one homeless young woman among a thousand young men – it’s “young adults”. If three women die in a war out of 50,000 soldiers, they’re “our brave men and women who died for this country”. In the Feminist controlled media you’re ALWAYS pumping the gender egalitarian narrative, or you’re vanquished…especially in the NYTimes, where most news media outlets across the country take their cues.
As feminist driven social systems eat up are children’s inheritance and leaveing Men out on the streets . We can expect backlash from this form of Violence in the form of violence (Think about It). I always look at Rwanda , Those Men came out of the woods . Same thing .As systems forced them into the woods /streets they came out and chopped heads off .
Ha look at India today Opposition lawmakers protested outside Parliament on Wednesday and called for the death penalty for the rapists.
Death to the rapists would cure all the political problems . Just call your opponent a rapist then KILL HIM .
DAMMMM .
The tide will turn. It can’t not. When it does, it’ll be the first time in civilization history. We’ve always accepted men and women to have limited roles, with men bearing the far more punishing role. Having inserted the gender dichotomy into civil rights will eventually turn the tide. By the time people realize that the size/power/speed of men makes them a target of abuse, it’ll be too late to “de-evolve,” keeping the movements that seek to protect men and boys permanent. Feminists are so fucked. What you’ll start hearing from women, is that “equality is such BS.” hahahaha I can’t wait.
When a political force manages to coalesce a majority of “oppressed” special interests and foment resentment and envy against the “oppressor” in a Democracy, you have Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
When your leadership believes the 1% have gotten rich off the backs of the majority poor, you demand economic justice by instituting tax increases for those making more than $200K per year, (mostly single white men) – – until there are no white men left to redistribute funds from. The system eventually collapses and a new central government of military rule moves in to fill the vaccuum. The populace seperates into ethonationalist States out of necessity, for survival.
Or Nazi Germany.
“There is a whole generation of Millenials living in their parents basements with degrees in Humanities, working part-time delivering pizza for pot money – that will live in those homes well past their parents death.”
Keyster, you described my brother-in-law to a fucking tee. He just turned 30. And he will be in debt for the rest of his life. At his parents’ it’s harder for him to smoke pot everyday now, though.
Here you go Keyster. This video gives a much clearer explanation of what is happening in America and Europe. Its all about birthrates it seems. Also covers the Nanny State etc
P.s. It is not in support of socialism or cultural marxism, so you can watch it.
The End Of The World As We Know It. Hoover Institution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQELHJx8Vf0
Or Nazi Germany.
Or Israel.
haha well played, sir.
I love that! It’s the magic incantation that let you criticize members of the protected groups.
I’m not being sarcastic, just in case there was some doubt.
The interesting thing about the delusional people who say that the youth will perpetually vote Democrat is that young men are already showing signs of abandoning the Democrats. Romney won white youth by the same margin as Reagan won all whites in 1980 (and white women were basically split evenly, so he won a landslide among young white men). Romney won 20% of young black men. Keep in mind that this was Mitt Romney, a candidate who was the personification of uncool and did not do anything at all to reach out to young voters. For every young man that voted for Romney, there is at least another who voted for Obama because he was upset that Ron Paul wasn’t the Republican nominee or voted for Gary Johnson or didn’t vote because Romney was “Obama lite” from his POV.
The treatment of young men in this society is atrocious and either we’re going to see young men put a President in the White House in 2016 or we’ll see a full-blown revolution before the end of the decade. I hope for peaceful change through the established process because history has shown that revolutions bring about something worse most of the time.
how many turn to prostitution? how many are murdered for it?
talking about young men here.
also:: http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/what-the-2012-election-would-have-looked-like-with