Reply #17: Better Than Living In The Back Of Your Car [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

Not long ago, my wife got a call from an old high school friend...an old acquaintaince who was a graphics designer and song writer. In '05 we visited him in his modest apartment in Orange County...not much of a place and we were floored at the time when he told me he was paying nearly 1,000 a month for this poor excuse for a one-bedroom...but it was the best he could find and he was able to find jobs to cover his nut.

This last call, my wife was concerned, she had sent a holiday card and it came back "addressee unknown"...we found out he hadn't worked for over two years and was forced to moved from his apartment last year. At first he stayed with some friends but that didn't work and he said that for the past six months he'd been living out of his van...driving all over the coast and crashing in parking lots. He's too young and healthy for benefits and has to resort to food stamps to eat...and is totally dispirited.

It's amazing how in this day when millions have seen their incomes and savings crumble away, thousands of home defaults and foreclosures and we rarely heard about homelessness in this country. But it's very much there...and getting worse.

Laugh as you might as these people...we may be looking at similar places to live in the future if this regime continues to sell us out to the highest bidders.