America's tent cities......what to do?..what to do?...Zyklon B anyone?

Photo by Rico Simke

While the United States has always had an underclass that included a limited number of folks living on the streets or in tents, we are seeing the number of tent cities swell in proportion to the worsening economy.

There are now fairly large tent cities in California, Nevada, Washington and Tennessee while smaller tent cities are springing up in Florida, Ohio and many other states across the country.

Some of these tent cities are well organized, while others have no general supervision. As these tent cities are unsightly, many areas are attempting to disband them. If the unemployment situation continues unabated, we will have another 5 million people out of work by the end of the year. Where will they go?

Photo Scott Sady/AP

Tent City in Reno, NV

Many homeless shelters are at capacity and many food banks are running out of food. Nationwide, fully 10% of the country is on food stamps. (Although climate is not much of a factor in the south, the colder northern climate is going to make it tough on the homeless/tent dwellers. ) Perhaps they can relocate to all of the soon to be vacant commercial property.

Photo Credit Jim Wilson/NYT
Fresno Tent City

You can almost hear the Oval Office speech now......"I've tried my best, I've tried harder than anything else in my whole life (cries a single tear from the left eye only) to deal with this horrific economy that I inherited from my numbskull predecessor, but, as the number of homeless has reached critical levels and disease is running rampant, I have no choice other than to round up certain segments of the population who are not able to become productive citizens and ship them off to one of the concentration camps that have been established, so that they can be humanely euthanized. Together we can get through these tough times, we'll just be doing it with a few less of our citizens. Allah, PBUH, bless you and Allah, PBUH, bless the United States of America."

Here's a few more NYT tent city photos:

We are going to be in BIG trouble soon.