>>Nah, it’ll be like in the Star Wars movie when Padmé says, “So this is how liberty dies: With thunderous applause.<<
A most excellent observation. In 2008 they applauded and last Wednesday they applauded.
But insurrection has not happened and it probably won’t. Sadly, TS won’t HTF.
My teenaged kids saw the connection between that and our country when the movie first came out.
One of my first indications that I did something right raising them and they were going to be turning out alright.
When (not if) the checks stop those that were applauding and chatting on their Obamaphones will be marching on the Govt. buildings demanding their stuff. And when they can't get it they will turn on everyone else.
Don't think the checks will stop? Right now the Fed is monetizing the debt. Every time its been tried it has failed and the economy it was tried in collapsed. We are issuing bonds to pay the interest on the bonds we issued last time. Next time we will issue bonds to pay for the interest on the bonds we issued this time. The ONLY way out of this spiral is to cut the budget drastically which means "the checks will either be reduced or cut." There is no way around this.