The ‘Tunnel People’ Who Live Under The Streets Of America

April 10th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless
people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S.
cities? ~ Michael Snyder

It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City
and it is even happening in Kansas City. As the economy crumbles,
poverty in the United States is absolutely exploding
and so is homelessness.

In addition to the thousands of “tunnel
people” living under the streets of America, there are also thousands
that are living in tent cities, there are tens of thousands that are
living in their vehicles and there are more than a million public school children
that do not have a home to go back to at night.

The federal government
tells us that the recession “is over” and that “things are getting
better”, and yet poverty and homelessness in this country continue to
rise with no end in sight. So what in the world are things going to
look like when the next economic crisis hits?

When I heard that there were homeless people living in a network of
underground tunnels beneath the streets of Kansas City, I was absolutely
stunned. I have relatives that live in that area. I never thought of
Kansas City as one of the more troubled cities in the United States.

But according to the Daily Mail, police recently discovered a network of tunnels under the city that people had been living in…

Below the streets of Kansas City, there are deep underground tunnels where a group of vagrant homeless people lived in camps.

These so-called homeless camps have now been uncovered by the
Kansas City Police, who then evicted the residents because of the unsafe
environment.

Authorities said these people were living in squalor, with piles of garbage and dirty diapers left around wooded areas.

The saddest part is the fact that authorities found dirty diapers in
the areas near these tunnels. That must mean that babies were being
raised in that kind of an environment.

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is happening all over the nation.
In recent years, the tunnel people of Las Vegas have received quite a
bit of publicity all over the world. It has been estimated that more than 1,000 people live in the massive network of flood tunnels under the city…

Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a
sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed
The Troll who wields an iron bar.

But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home
to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.

Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished
their home with considerable care – their 400sq ft ‘bungalow’ boasts a
double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf.

Could you imagine living like that? Sadly, for an increasing number
of Americans a “normal lifestyle” is no longer an option. Either they
have to go to the homeless shelters or they have to try to eke out an
existence on their own any way that they can.

In New York City, authorities are constantly trying to root out the
people that live in the tunnels under the city and yet they never seem
to be able to find them all. The following is from a New York Post article about the “Mole People” that live underneath New York City…

The homeless people who live down here are called Mole
People. They do not, as many believe, exist in a separate, organized
underground society. It’s more of a solitary existence and loose-knit
community of secretive, hard-luck individuals.

The New York Post followed one homeless man known as “John Travolta”
on a tour through the underground world. What they discovered was a
world that is very much different from what most New Yorkers
experience…

In the tunnels, their world is one of malt liquor, tight
spaces, schizophrenic neighbors, hunger and spells of heat and cold.

Travolta and the others eat fairly well, living on a regimented schedule
of restaurant leftovers, dumped each night at different times around
the neighborhood above his foreboding home.

Even as the Dow hits record high after record high, poverty in New
York City continues to rise at a very frightening pace. Incredibly, the
number of homeless people sleeping in the homeless shelters of New York
City has increased by a whopping 19 percent over the past year.

In many of our major cities, the homeless shelters are already at
maximum capacity and are absolutely packed night after night. Large
numbers of homeless people are often left to fend for themselves.

That is one reason why we have seen the rise of so many tent cities.

Yes, the tent cities are still there, they just aren’t getting as
much attention these days because they do not fit in with the “economic
recovery” narrative that the mainstream media is currently pushing.

In fact, many of the tent cities are larger than ever. For example,
you can check out a Reuters video about a growing tent city in New
Jersey that was posted on YouTube at the end of March right here.

A lot of these tent cities have now become permanent fixtures, and
unfortunately they will probably become much larger when the next major
economic crisis strikes.

But perhaps the saddest part of all of this is the massive number of children that are suffering night after night.

For the first time ever, more than a million public school children in the United States are homeless. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year.

So if things are really “getting better”, then why in the world do we
have more than a million public school children without homes?

These days a lot of families that have lost their homes have ended up
living in their vehicles. The following is an excerpt from a 60 Minutes interview with one family that is living in their truck…

This is the home of the Metzger family. Arielle,15. Her
brother Austin, 13. Their mother died when they were very young. Their
dad, Tom, is a carpenter. And, he’s been looking for work ever since
Florida’s construction industry collapsed.

When foreclosure took their
house, he bought the truck on Craigslist with his last thousand dollars.
Tom’s a little camera shy – thought we ought to talk to the kids – and
it didn’t take long to see why.

Pelley: How long have you been living in this truck?

Arielle Metzger: About five months.

Pelley: What’s that like?

Arielle Metzger: It’s an adventure.

Austin Metzger: That’s how we see it.

Pelley: When kids at school ask you where you live, what do you tell ’em?

Austin Metzger: When they see the truck they ask me if I live in it,
and when I hesitate they kinda realize. And they say they won’t tell
anybody.

Arielle Metzger: Yeah it’s not really that much an embarrassment. I mean, it’s only life. You do what you need to do, right?

But after watching a news report or reading something on the Internet
about these people we rapidly forget about them because they are not a
part of “our world”.

Another place where a lot of poor people end up is in prison. In a previous article,
I detailed how the prison population in the United States has been
booming in recent years.

If you can believe it, the United States now
has approximately 25 percent of the entire global prison population even
though it only has about 5 percent of the total global population.

And these days it is not just violent criminals that get thrown into
prison. If you lose your job and get behind on your bills, you could be
thrown into prison as well. The following is from a recent CBS News article…

Roughly a third of U.S. states today jail people for not
paying off their debts, from court-related fines and fees to credit card
and car loans, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Such
practices contravene a 1983 United States Supreme Court ruling that they
violate the Constitutions’s Equal Protection Clause.

Some states apply “poverty penalties,” such as late fees, payment
plan fees and interest, when people are unable to pay all their debts at
once.

Alabama charges a 30 percent collection fee, for instance, while
Florida allows private debt collectors to add a 40 percent surcharge on
the original debt.

Some Florida counties also use so-called collection
courts, where debtors can be jailed but have no right to a public
defender.

In North Carolina, people are charged for using a public
defender, so poor defendants who can’t afford such costs may be forced
to forgo legal counsel.

The high rates of unemployment and government fiscal shortfalls that
followed the housing crash have increased the use of debtors’ prisons,
as states look for ways to replenish their coffers.

Said Chettiar, “It’s
like drawing blood from a stone. States are trying to increase their
revenue on the backs of the poor.”

If you are poor, the United States can be an incredibly cold and cruel place. Mercy and compassion are in very short supply.

The middle class continues to shrink and poverty continues to grow with each passing year. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately one out of every six
Americans is now living in poverty. And if you throw in those that are
considered to be “near poverty”, that number becomes much larger.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 146 million Americans are either “poor” or “low income”.

For many more facts about the rapid increase of poverty in this country, please see my previous article entitled “21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Everyone Should Know“.

But even as poverty grows, it seems like the hearts of those that
still do have money are getting colder. Just check out what happened
recently at a grocery store that was in the process of closing down in Augusta, Georgia…

Residents filled the parking lot with bags and baskets
hoping to get some of the baby food, canned goods, noodles and other
non-perishables. But a local church never came to pick up the food, as
the storeowner prior to the eviction said they had arranged.

By the time
the people showed up for the food, what was left inside the premises—as
with any eviction—came into the ownership of the property holder,
SunTrust Bank.

The bank ordered the food to be loaded into dumpsters and hauled to a
landfill instead of distributed. The people that gathered had to be
restrained by police as they saw perfectly good food destroyed. Local
Sheriff Richard Roundtree told the news “a potential for a riot was
extremely high.”

Can you imagine watching that happen?

But of course handouts and charity are only temporary solutions.
What the poor in this country really need are jobs, and unfortunately there has not been a jobs recovery in the United States since the recession ended.

In fact, the employment crisis looks like it is starting to take
another turn for the worse. The number of layoffs in the month of March
was 30 percent higher than the same time a year ago.

Meanwhile, small businesses are indicating that hiring is about to
slow down significantly. According to a recent survey by the National
Federation of Independent Businesses, small businesses in the United
States are extremely pessimistic right now.

The following is what
Goldman Sachs had to say about this survey…

Components of the survey were consistent with the decline
in headline optimism, as the net percent of respondents planning to
hire fell to 0% (from +4%), those expecting higher sales fell to -4%
(from +1%), and those reporting that it is a good time to expand ticked
down to +4% (from +5%).

The net percent of respondents expecting the
economy to improve was unchanged at -28%, a very depressed level. However, on the positive side, +25% of respondents plan increased capital spending [ZH: With Alcoa CapEx spending at a 2 year low].

Small business owners continue to place poor sales, taxes, and red tape
at the top of their list of business problems, as they have for the
past several years.

So why aren’t our politicians doing anything to fix this?

For example, why in the world don’t they stop millions of our jobs from being sent out of the country?

Well, the truth is that they don’t think we have a problem. In fact, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson recently said that U.S. trade deficits “don’t matter”.

He apparently does not seem alarmed that more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities have been shut down in the United States since 2001.

And since the last election, the White House has seemed to have gone into permanent party mode.

On Tuesday,
another extravagant party will be held at the White House. It is being
called “In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul”, and it is
going to include some of the biggest names in the music industry…

As the White House has previously announced,
Justin Timberlake (who will be making his White House debut), Al Green,
Ben Harper, Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, Joshua Ledet, Sam Moore,
Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples, and others will be performing at the
exclusive event.

And so who will be paying for all of this?

You and I will be. Even as the Obamas cry about all of the other
“spending cuts” that are happening, they continue to blow millions of
taxpayer dollars on wildly extravagant parties and vacations.

Overall, U.S. taxpayers will spend well over a billion dollars on the Obamas this year.

I wonder what the tunnel people that live under the streets of America think about that.