An '''Obamaville''' is a tent city or shanty town in the [[United States]] created by homeless people.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=174965</ref><ref>http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100627_Huge_tent_city_takes_root.html</ref><ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/12/welcome-obamaville-sign-colorado-tent-city-media-mum</ref> The term alludes to the tent cities and shanty towns called Hoovervilles that were created during the [[Great Depression]] and [[Obamunism|to the disastrous economic policies of Barack Obama.]] Unlike the [[conservative]] [[American]] president [[Calvin Coolidge]] who successfully turned around a depression via reduced government spending and tax cuts, President [[Herbert Hoover]] practiced [[liberal]] economics like raising tariffs and nearly doubling taxes, and economic conditions greatly worsened during his administration.<ref>http://blog.mises.org/2202/silent-cal-had-a-lot-to-say/</ref><ref>http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf</ref> | An '''Obamaville''' is a tent city or shanty town in the [[United States]] created by homeless people.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=174965</ref><ref>http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100627_Huge_tent_city_takes_root.html</ref><ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/12/welcome-obamaville-sign-colorado-tent-city-media-mum</ref> The term alludes to the tent cities and shanty towns called Hoovervilles that were created during the [[Great Depression]] and [[Obamunism|to the disastrous economic policies of Barack Obama.]] Unlike the [[conservative]] [[American]] president [[Calvin Coolidge]] who successfully turned around a depression via reduced government spending and tax cuts, President [[Herbert Hoover]] practiced [[liberal]] economics like raising tariffs and nearly doubling taxes, and economic conditions greatly worsened during his administration.<ref>http://blog.mises.org/2202/silent-cal-had-a-lot-to-say/</ref><ref>http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf</ref> |