” There’s class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Expect a growing number of decent Americans to be forced to live in their vehicles.

Plan ahead. Be prepared.

If you can chip in to assist in another to pay rent you can have a “home base” to shower, cook and to receive phone calls and perhaps a place to lounge in the off-hours.

I had a 5 member family I knew well but the 2-bedroom apartment did not have room for me to sleep and they needed some privacy so my Honda was my bedroom.

Be creative in finding places to park.

Is there a business where you can park at night with permission and be a deterrent to vandals or thieves just by your vehicle’s presence?

I did it for an auto salvage yard.

We are likely facing a future where an increasing number of Americans will be confronting a 3rd-world-like life-style due to the ever-growing concentrations of wealth and power into the hands of the few.

I believe the ongoing class war has been in place since around 1973 or so.

I see little chance of any real change in the future since our elites, corporate America etc. appear to desire the USA to become an oligarchy.

Prepare now for tough times.

Try to procure a vehicle conducive to the most comfortable sleeping/living in as possible.

Modify it before-hand, as much as practical, so it will take minimal preparation if homelessness hits.

And consider changing events and situations. Perhaps the American populace will rise up though I fear that would not be enough.

I believe that nothing short of a full-scale military coup will result in any real changes within the USA to prevent most of us (or our off-spring) from sliding down into the depths of economic despair and living akin to a 3rd-world life-style.

Excellent article hobo poet. I read your blog waaaaaaay back when your blog was hosted on blogspot, and I spent hours reading through it

I wrote “Doom and Gloom? I don’t give a *****” at http://kennubo.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/doom-and-gloom-i-dont-give-a-fuck/

I think your readers will like it!

I am ~ I am ~ a happy hobo poet too. I’m quite thrilled to have stumbled into your campsite here. Please drop by my site at your leisure:

http://backdeserttrail.synthasite.com/we-the-people.php

As for your take on The Obama Administration, I have not really grappled with this new flip of the political coin. I started an independent newsletter about the time Bush gave his “Axis of Evil” speech. The newsletter got quite political. And I was glad to see Obama take the White House. In fact, we, meaning me, the staff of the Old Timer Chronicle, campaigned for Obama.

Your take on the new political phenomena that we face is probably, in my estimation, pretty accurate but not necessarily so. How’s that for vague?

Flipping the political pancake from Bush to Obama worked for me. So presently I am piling it high with butter and syrup and have already taken a couple bites. Hmm hmm.

A pal of mine on the extreme left seems awful unhappy. And those folks on the extreme right seem to have taken some kind of mental dive into deeper total absurdity. And in the middle there is more and more unemployment. And way way out there it seems we still have two fronts on Bush’s war ~ in Iraq, and in Afghanistan. This, my friend, is not exactly a pretty picture, as I’m sure of which you are aware.

So continue living simply but happily and maintain your political awareness. How’s that? Adios for nowwwwwww…