[ClearCase_guy]

I'm not making any sort of recommendation. I just see a good 10% of the population having no financial means to speak of.

Unemployment? It's gone. Used up. It only lasts for so long.
Welfare? They don't qualify.
Mortgage? They lost the house a long time ago.
Job? Officially declared unemployable.

If America has something like 20 million people in that situation, then what happens next? The number of options is limited:

Civil unrest and violence as an army of the unemployed express their frsustration.
Mass starvation as people with no resources give up and die.
Politicians decide to expand the notion of welfare and send out a lot of checks so that there is neither unrest nor starvation.

I don't know what will happen, but I don't see how society can limp along indefinitely just doing the same old same old. At some point, something has to give.

[Bullish]

Yeah, I see you understand the situation but some people seem to think that unemployable middle aged folks are laying around at home collecting welfare from taxpayers or something, they’re not. That they’re too lazy to go find a job, they’re are not. The jobs aren’t there for millions of them.

They’re in as dire a shape as people during the depression and many have nowhere to turn if they don’t have relatives that will help. I don’t see any quick solution for them. Do you?

[Max in Utah]

If America has something like 20 million people in that situation, then what happens next?

Hello rooftop, hello rifle.