http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021173/Americas-city-broken-dreams-50-jobless-destitute-people-set-forest-community-New-Yorks-doorstep.htmlt
This is what it comes to: while our leaders dither and posture in Washington, ravaged by the mindless Tea Partiers and Populists, American citizens are forced to live in tent cities.
Sadly, one has to read about it in the British press, because the celebrity and entertainment ridden American press rattles on and on about trivialities.