What the Furlough?

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency, which means the furlough has left it's mark on AmeriCorps.

Right now we're living in an abandoned Sam's Club (I'll have a whole other post about that soon).

Payday is on Thursday, so if it hasn't ended by then, I won't get my $157. Unfortunately, that means I'll have to hold off on buying that property in Martha's Vineyard.

Graduation is on November 20th, so if the furlough doesn't end by then, they won't have any money to send any of us home. They also probably won't have any money to feed us, since they didn't budget that for anytime past the 20th. They also won't have any staff.

What will probably happen is we will be stuck in the abandoned Sam's club for forever. We won't have leaders so our own warehouse society will probably evolve. Leaders will rise and fall. Empires will emerge and collapse.

We will have no money for food so we will probably form a gang of thieves who will sneak into the Albertson's dumpsters next door, scavenging for day old bread or dine-and-dashing at the Chili's across the street.

As the years go by and the warehouse population grows (either as a result of AmeriBabies or homeless people wandering into the unlocked doors), we may begin to have territory wars between the North Side Perry Pointers and the South Side Denverites. The winners (Denverites most likely) will become the elite and the losers the oppressed.

Eventually the Denverites will have to implement some sort of Hunger Games to maintain their powers over the Pointers. As the years go by and the rest of the country has fallen into chaos or been destroyed by the zombie apocalypse, our society will move past its concrete walls and begin to bring order back to our nation. But it will not be the freedom that we have known until know. Instead, it will be the dark, corrupt rule of our Panem-esque Denverites. Until a Katniss-like figure emerges (maybe from Vicksburg?) the nation will only know oppression and sorrow.

Just something to think about, Congress.