Camping, or homeless ???

Here is an intriguing essay in The New York Times about camping / homelessness in Alaska:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/us/alaskas-thin-line-between-camping-and-homelessness.html

I suspect that it is here more as a slap in the face of Sarah Palin than an actual gesture of compassionate caring about the homeless in Alaska ... but with the NYT you never know for sure. [Are the homeless in NY better off than the homeless in Alaska?]

Compare this to my previous post about "campers" in Germany. There even the homeless are pretty well off:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/11/germans-moving-to-campgrounds.html

And for a truly revealing comparison, also consider the following:

In World War Two, Germany was bombed to smithereens. Just about the entire country was wrecked, while the US thrived and enjoyed a period of enormous expansion. Since 1945, however, Germany has returned to its previous status as an economic powerhouse, while the US is falling to the status of a third world economy.

We wuz robbed.