Bonzo3legs. Keeping kids in college makes them debt slaves for life and massages unemployment figures downwards. It's a win win situation for the PTB.

Joe. The example you set to the rest of us is outstanding, long may your good works continue!

The fact that more can be spent housing cats and dogs than on people speaks volumes about the society we live in.

In reality we exist on a knife edge and very little is required to tip us over the edge. What separates us from the homeless is the false perception that we could not sink to that level.
What savings does the average person have?
What percentage are behind on payments for housing , cars etc.
How vulnerable are we to upsets in just in time deliveries, especially of food?
Have lessons been learnt and actioned since Katrina?
Through no fault of our own, a little shock to the system could plunge many more of us onto the streets.