Announcing the winners of the contest to rename the Depression Era Hooverville for G.W.Bush.
Attention all media outlets: Moving forward, please refer to all encampments of homeless people as either Bushburgs, or Bushburbs!
In the 1930s, as the Depression, threw millions out of work — and the foreclosure crisis it spawned threw tens of thousands of families out of their homes. —Shantytowns sprang up all over the country, makeshift shacks and sheds thrown together from discarded wood and packing material to house the newly homeless in vacant lots, public parks, wherever they were tolerated. They were called Hoovervilles in dubious honor of the president who helped bring economic disaster to the country.
For the last year, economists were loathe to use the word recession to describe out situation. Just this month, they finally got around to admitting that December 2007 was the start of a recession. Well, news flash to the economists, we are perilously close to Depression, given that the number of foreclosures we are experiencing hasn't been matched since the 1930s. Hello!?
Well, to help wake these guys up, AQJB ran a contest to rename the Hooverville. Winners had cash donated to Habitat for Humanity in their name. And some CDs.
The winners are: Tovah G., Tom A., and Peter B. Congratulations to you.
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