15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Become So Desperate That They Will Do Just About Anything

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[quesney]

How well (or how badly) the US handles the Depression that’s coming will tell us alot about much the country has devolved since the 1930’s Depression and the Greatest Generation.

[blam]

Former Intelligence Chief: Expect Intensified Social Conflicts, Social Hostility, Civil Unrest, Extremism

"We may not be able to predict exactly when we reach the tipping point, but as Mr. Brzezinski suggests, once we cross it major US cities will erupt in riots and violence similar to that which we have seen in the middle east in recent months and what we’re seeing in Europe now."

[brownsfan]

“How well (or how badly) the US handles the Depression that’s coming ... “

I thought we were in a depression?

[PMAS]

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[cripplecreek]

I doubled the size of my garden.

[GonzoGOP]

Watch for illegal salvage to increase. Here in Chicago they put up aluminum street light poles on one of the highways and someone was trying to steel them for the scrap value. Abandoned houses are being stripped of copper wire and pipe.

This is only going to increase as the value of the dollar decreases. As the dollar goes down the price of metals go up. And you can't guard every bit of metal once people start snagging it.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Might want to put it under lock and key (so to speak)

[smokingfrog]

I stole your watermelon.

[blueunicorn6]

I sold my body once to a woman for $5 and a half a Snickers bar. Best money I ever made.

[ken21]

if “someone was trying to steel them...”

then, he’s a talented fellow,

making steel from aluminum has

always eluded ph.d.’s for hundreds of years.

/s

[Biggirl]

We are in a DEPRESSION already!

[Biggirl]

Please see post number 12.

[Free Vulcan]

Sounds like the zombie apocalypse has already started.

[Biggirl]

That will most likely happen once Mr. Obama is VOTED OUT come late next year!

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[cripplecreek]

One of my gardens is right outside my bedroom window and the other is behind two fences in the middle of a mix of raspberries, poison ivy, and a skeeter ranch. I dread going out there myself.

[VanDeKoik]

I’m sorry, but aren’t most of these things just random kooky crimes?

Hair extensions? Some guy paying off gambling debts with his parent’s money?

I’m sure some people are doing some desperate things, but not every theft is because of it.

[Born to Conserve]

Don’t defend yourselves, and you’ll get robbed and murdered.
Defend yourselves, and you’ll get sued and thrown in jail.

Guns are the cure for crime and tyranny.

[Professional Engineer]

Bfl