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Posted on 07/14/2011 6:49:00 AM PDT by quesney
More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaking the law, many people are choosing to break the law... All over the country, there are areas where just about anything that is not bolted down is being stolen. A lot of people have resorted to making money however they can - selling drugs, selling their bodies, shoplifting, invading homes, taking bribes, running credit card scams and even stealing from their own family members. You will have a hard time believing some of the things that you are about to read below...
The following are 15 examples that show many Americans have become so desperate that they will do just about anything for money....
#1 In Utah, one unemployed 28 year old man is offering to be "human prey" for hunters for the bargain price of $10,000. For an additional $2,000, he will let people hunt him down while he is running around naked.
#2 The Huffington Post is reporting that there has been an epidemic of air conditioning thefts all over the United States....
(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...
perhaps we should start writing to CNBC and have them just admit we are in the Obama Recession.
they dance about this fact of life with wall street abandon and cyclical turnaround is just code for stuck in depression.
The narrative has changed. When bush was president, he only created 200 thousand jobs for the month. With Obama, there are less unemployment claims for the month.
The incidents seem mostly about the decline in civility rather than desperation. In the past, countries were invaded by barbarians; when the US falls, most of the barbarians will be our own children and grand-children.
I drink your milkshake.
Even in good times 15 nutjobs can be found. This has nothing to do with ‘the American people’. Besides it’s liberals who over use that phrase - which is where this crap probably came from..
Glad we have the castle doctrine here in Ohio that has been expanded to feeling like your life is endangered.
WE lost the copper waterlines in our spare house about a year ago.They did catch the guy coming out but the lines had already been cut into small pieces.We are waiting until cloer to selling time to replace them.
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