[Jamestown1630]

I live in a suburb of DC.

There are a lot of people here who are already suffering, especially if they need to buy gas to carry on their small livelihoods - or rely on those.

[gundog]

Sounds like a potential nightmare if EBT goes down. I need to start asking if the cashiers have any half dollars. The Great Recession flushed a lot of those into circulation...some of them silver.

Fuel is the key, and the vermin in government know it. A hundred years ago, people weren’t nearly as mobile. Now, society is geared around individual mobility. We’re very vulnerable to control. And predation.