Hobo life

We here at These Bastards are great chroniclers of hobo life. And why not? This is our inevitable future. The country and economy are failing, little is being done to stop it, and it's at least 2 or 3 weeks until society buckles under the weight of problems of our own making. So that's why we educate the masses on what their lives will soon be: bindles, beans, train-yards, sleeping in cardboard boxes 'neath the underpass, daily fights for survival, and the upcoming Hobo Wars as our great hobo underclass fights for territory and leadership supremacy on the Grand Hobo Council of Elders.

But some of our elected betters are wary of this future and are doing what they can to not only warn people about government hobo indoctrination, but actively trying to stop the hobo-ification of this country. How? By stopping the extension of unemployment benefits, naturally. Let Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) explain.

Heller said the current economic downturn and policies may bring back the hobos of the Great Depression, people who wandered the country taking odd jobs.
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“I believe there should be a federal safety net,” Heller said, but he questioned the wisdom of extending unemployment benefits yet again to a total of 24 months, which Congress is doing. “Is the government now creating hobos?” he asked.

He's for a social safety net, he just opposes any means to create or extend one.

But he does raise an interesting point: government created hobos. How will these professional, government trained hobos interact with the naturally formed hobos, bums, grifters, drifters, and tramps. Will they subjugate them with their superior hobo training, ruling them as kings, and ignoring the Democracy of the Council of Elders? Or will they teach us their ways, bettering hobo society as a whole and helping us through the unpleasant times shortly after the world falls into the dystopian nightmare, post-apocalypse period?

I guess we'll soon find out. I, for one, hope that these government hobos help us better our Hobotopia.