Obamavilles And The Starch Diet For Poor Taxi Drivers

A Shanty Town Under Obama's Rule

Am I the only one that is tired of working everyday for 10 hours with no time off and needing to work weekends to make money? All you can do during the week is pay the lease, and buy some pasta for yourself...who can afford meat?

Many of Tampa's Taxi drivers are functionally homeless. They have personal clothes and grooming items stored in the trunks of their taxi cabs or they live day to day out of a motel. Many just have nowhere to live and they gather at the pavilion in the holding area at the airport (where the taxi cab drivers wait during the day) and spread out their sleeping bags and sleep. When the floor gets to hard for them, they sleep in the back seat of the taxi.

This is reminiscent of the Depression era when people would sleep in 'Hooversvilles' or shanty towns. Those people had no jobs. So why are these men willing to work 120 hours a week to live like this? I have no idea. You can do nothing in this country and be homeless.

I am getting fat, however. Why is that? I thought you were poor? I am but when you are poor in America you gain weight. The poor people in America are the fattest in the world. Did you know that? Poor people can only buy potato's, pasta, rice and beans..the starch diet. That will make you fat. I long for meat and fresh vegetables. Tonight, I will use kidney beans in my pasta for some variety. I do have some black pepper.

Mike, you are right. I did rant the other day. I just don't how the owners of these taxi companies can be millionaires while the drivers have nothing and live like worms during the Depression while living in 'Obamavilles.'  That is if the police don't run you off in the middle of the night trying to create the illusion that there are no homeless people in the Tampa Bay area. I guess it is the economy stupid. Does Obama get your vote again? Is there anyway out of this jam in the near future?