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Our homeless living in shipping containers
Jul 19^th, 2013 at 6:58pm

Tonight I watched a Current Affairs show telling the story of how tough many people are doing it. They are living in shipping containers, derelict caravans, the back of their cars; one step away from living on the street.

Not all these people are 'losers' far from it, many are intelligent everyday people on the end of ill fortune.

I have always said as a Cop we are all one step away from disaster and living exactly like these poor souls are doing.

I ponder now, how far would the 12 billion dollars spent by Labor on illegal boat people, have gone to relieve our own citizens who are a sideshow, apparently no Government here gives a flying sh.t about.

You see its just not freaking newsworthy enough.

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Innocent bystander Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4220 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #1 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:01pm F#ckem!, they should have worked harder and paid more taxes so that we can import even more boat people to Australia to retire on centrelink ... the ungrateful bastards
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Reply #2 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:08pm

red baron wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 6:58pm:

Tonight I watched a Current Affairs show telling the story of how tough many people are doing it. They are living in shipping containers, derelict caravans, the back of their cars; one step away from living on the street.

Not all these people are 'losers' far from it, many are intelligent everyday people on the end of ill fortune.

I have always said as a Cop we are all one step away from disaster and living exactly like these poor souls are doing.

I ponder now, how far would the 12 billion dollars spent by Labor on illegal boat people, have gone to relieve our own citizens who are a sideshow, apparently no Government here gives a flying sh.t about.

You see its just not freaking newsworthy enough.

maybe no votes in it.. like our children being swept under the carpet as more and more "parents" kill them because they should not have them in the first place..

but it must be cheaper to let them be killed than to spend money on caring for them..

there is always a cost factor isnt there?.

hows many MPs are at Lords.. anyone know.. I saw John Howard shaking hands with the Queen...did we pay for that as well????..

funny how we can find the money when THEY need it most.

I feel for the real homeless I really do but our children I feel more.

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Reply #3 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:11pm

They're not homeless if they've got a shipping container to call...err..home.

I'd like to see more of these unconventional uses. We can't all have, nor do we all need a 4x2 on 1/4 acre block, and it's only government red tape that prevents people from finding an arrangement that suits their needs and means. It's not the ritz, but it's better than sleeping in a piss-soaked stairwell.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 75080 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #4 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:12pm how many spare rooms at your place Red?, maybe you could even squeeze a couple of beds into one room .... better than b1tching about everything isn't it Red?
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Innocent bystander Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4220 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #5 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:13pm I'll tell our own needy the same as I tell all needy, go to Indonesia and come back on a boat if you want first class treatment otherwise get back in the gutter lest you give the boat arrivals a bad image of Australia.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #6 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:15pm John Smith wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:12pm: how many spare rooms at your place Red?, maybe you could even squeeze a couple of beds into one room .... better than b1tching about everything isn't it Red? he may have a few asylum seekers staying like yourself!!
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Reply #7 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:20pm

cods wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:15pm:

John Smith wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:12pm:

how many spare rooms at your place Red?, maybe you could even squeeze a couple of beds into one room .... better than b1tching about everything isn't it Red?

he may have a few asylum seekers staying like yourself!! Cheesy

I haven't any spare rooms Cods otherwise I would. Have you?

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 75080 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #8 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:20pm Innocent bystander wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:13pm: I'll tell our own needy the same as I tell all needy, go to Indonesia and come back on a boat if you want first class treatment otherwise get back in the gutter lest you give the boat arrivals a bad image of Australia. try it.
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sir prince duke alevine Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23619 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #9 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:21pm Mr baron sir, how much money in the budget did mr Howard redirect from asylum seekers to the homeless when the boats stopped?
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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #10 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:45pm Honky....the kicker to this story is that in less than a year the caravan park's containers and sh.tbox vans will be shovelled in to make way for...wait for it...Five star homes that will cost megabucks. Oh and the tenants? Well they will be on their sorry arses out on the pavement...sound familiar?
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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #11 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:47pm Alevine, in my comments I included all Governments and that includes Liberal ones.
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Reply #12 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:55pm

red baron wrote on Jul 19^th, 2013 at 7:45pm:

Honky....the kicker to this story is that in less than a year the caravan park's containers and sh.tbox vans will be shovelled in to make way for...wait for it...Five star homes that will cost megabucks.

Oh and the tenants? Well they will be on their sorry arses out on the pavement...sound familiar?

Too familiar. I've got a mother in law who lives in a 1 bedroom dog box that costs most of her income. Next rent rise she gets may be enough to push her out onto the street - and I'll die before I let her move in here, but there are few other options available.

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Reply #13 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 8:09pm

Hey John Smith let's take a scenario, I preface it by stating that I don't wish this on anyone including you my adversary.

Let's say you were unfortunate enough to have an accident, one minute you're flying, good job, good pay, good prospects...then suddenly you get struck down by serious and long term illness.

Have a think about how long your lifestyle would last...You would be down the chute in the twinkling of an eye.

It could happen to any of us...and when that happens watch how the friends and colleagues disappear.

I didn't start in the Cops until I was 33. I was the grandpop of my class, different now, they take them at 55 now.

In my case, I was flying high with a great job in the airlines then suddenly there was an industrial dispute and a whole bunch of us got sacked.

I went from hero to zero.

Because of my air force stint in a security mustering I was finally able to get a start in the cops but in the intervening period, I did it tough big time.

It can come to get you at any time. I don't know one person who hasn't been through the fire one way or another.

What I'm saying is that charity begins at home and it burns me to see Country shoppers getting units and town houses whilst we have Australian citizens living on the streets and in cars and freaking shipping containers.

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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: Our homeless living in shipping containers Reply #14 - Jul 19^th, 2013 at 8:10pm Shipping containers make great accommodation. You should goggle shipping container houses, some of them would be better than what you call home.
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