Posted on 11/02/2010 7:16:54 AM PDT by blam
Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into 36 Unemployment Offices Across The State?
Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices? Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana. Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of Indiana. So why is this happening now? Well, Indiana Department of Workforce Development spokesman Marc Lotter says that the agency is bringing in the extra security in anticipation of an upcoming deadline when thousands upon thousands of Indiana residents could have their unemployment benefits cut off. But it is not just the state of Indiana that could have a problem. In fact, one recent study found that approximately 2 million Americans will lose their unemployment insurance benefits during this upcoming holiday season unless Congress authorizes another emergency extension of benefits by the end of November. At this point, however, that is looking less and less likely.
So perhaps all the states will have to start putting armed security guards in their unemployment offices. The truth is that frustration among unemployed Americans is growing by the day.
Could we soon see economic riots similar to what we have seen in Greece and France?
Let's hope not.
The following is a video news report about the armed guards that are going into Indiana unemployment offices....
(click to the site to view the video)
So could things really get out of hand when thousands of unemployed workers in Indiana find out that they aren't going to get checks any longer?
Indiana Department of Workforce Development spokesman Marc Lotter makes it sound like that is very much on his mind....
"Given the upcoming expiration of the federal extensions and the increased stress on some of the unemployed, we thought added security would provide an extra level of protection for our employees and clients." So who is paying for all of this extra security?
The Feds of course.
The additional cost of the new security will be approximately $1 million, and it will be paid for with U.S. government funds designated for the administration of the unemployment system according to Lotter.
This is not a good trend. As you go through your daily life, just start taking note of the places that now have armed security that did not have armed security five or ten years ago.
Unfortunately, as the U.S. economy goes downhill even further, the amount of security that people feel is "necessary" is likely to go up even more.
So is America going to become an armed camp where the people and institutions with money are protected by armed guards from the hordes of frustrated unemployed workers that can't feed themselves or their families?
Americans are certainly not in a good mood about the economy. According to a recent poll conducted by CNBC, 92 percent of Americans believe that the performance of the U.S. economy is either "fair" or "poor".
The lack of jobs is the main thing that the American people are so mad about. In fact, it is hard for even highly educated people to find work in 2010. In America today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.
People are really hurting and they are getting to the end of their ropes. Over 41 million Americans are now on food stamps, and one out of every six Americans is enrolled in at least one federal anti-poverty program. It is getting hard to believe that this is even America anymore. For many more statistics that reveal the economic horror we are now facing as a nation, please see my previous article entitled "30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Nervous About The State Of The U.S. Economy".
But it is not just unemployment that is the problem. In recent years, millions upon millions of Americans have been forced to take reduced hours or a cut in pay due to the economy. Millions of others have had to take jobs that barely enable them to survive. In fact, the number of Americans working part-time jobs "for economic reasons" is now the highest it has been in at least five decades.
So why aren't there even close to enough jobs for everyone? Well, there are a number of contributing factors, including the fact that we have been "offshoring" and "outsourcing" millions of our jobs and now it is really starting to catch up with us. I have discussed this so many times now that I am starting to sound like a broken record.
But instead of fixing the fundamental problems with our economy, the Federal Reserve wants to print yet another gigantic pile of paper money and throw it at the problem. It is called "quantitative easing", and it may help smooth things over for a few months, but it is also going to make our long-term problems even worse.
Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve does not really seem concerned about protecting the value of the U.S. dollar at this point. Not that they ever did, but it would be nice to see Fed officials paying at least some lip service to the dangers of inflation.
Instead, various Fed officials have been publicly making statements about the need for more quantitative easing for weeks. Right now they seem desperate to put the American people back to work - even if it ends up crashing the value of the dollar.
But now even the IMF seems supportive of a dollar devaluation. On Thursday, the IMF actually said that the U.S. dollar is "overvalued" and that adjustments need to be made.
We'll see what the Fed decides to do next week. Most analysts believe that they will announce a quantitative easing program of some sort or another.
But what have we come to as a nation when those who control our economy believe that the best solution to our economic problems is to print another big pile of paper money and chuck it into the system?
We've got an absolutely gigantic economic mess on our hands, and none of our "leaders" seem to have any idea about how to fix it.
Meanwhile, millions of unemployed Americans are just going to become more and more frustrated - especially when it gets to the point when they aren't receiving unemployment checks anymore
When they start putting armed guards in the welfare offices,
be ready for the feces to hit the circulating device.
Meanwhile, the Socialist King and Queen and their 800 friends are traveling to India on your dollars.
For what it’s worth, I’ve seen armed security, as many as two guards, at Virginia DMV offices in urban areas.
Thousands of people coming through and paying cash for license fees, permit fees, tickets, etc.
A good number of DMVs probably have more cash on the premises than the average local bank branch.
“Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into 36 Unemployment Offices Across The State?”
Many of the 99 weekers are about to be cut off.
Why is there a photo of police in riot gear accompanying a story about security guards unless it is mean’t to gin up more fear than need be?
or when they start putting armed guards at the supermarkets
Yikes! Because 99 weeks is about to come to an end?
With just-in-time delivery,
those shelves will be bare before anyone has anything to fight over.
If you’re at the store when the SHTF,
you didn’t do it right.
OXNARD — An out-of-work computer engineer with a history of grudges against government opened fire without warning in an unemployment office here Thursday, killing three people and later fatally shooting a police officer before he was gunned down at another unemployment office in the neighboring city of Ventura, authorities said.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-03/news/mn-63506_1_police-officers
This was almost 17 years ago but I remember it well.
OXNARD — An out-of-work computer engineer with a history of grudges against government opened fire without warning in an unemployment office here Thursday, killing three people and later fatally shooting a police officer before he was gunned down at another unemployment office in the neighboring city of Ventura, authorities said.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-03/news/mn-63506_1_police-officers
This was almost 17 years ago but I remember it well.
oops, on the double post :(
The deputies have a sweet deal: they can work for a private entity in their "off" hours yet are paid at their overtime rate,and the private business gets someone with full authority to arrest ,also fully equipped,and hopefully trained to handle any security situation.
Except my experience is that security guards are traditionally more about service than law enforcement;I wonder about the attitudes and atmosphere changes.
Somehow I don't think this photo is what the armed security guards are going to look like.
Not quite sure why they thought to use it.
As far as the story goes, I'm not at all surprised there's going to be armed guards in unemployment offices. People are growing desperate. When one of them eventually loses it after being refused unemployment, people are going to ask, "Why weren't there security guards on the premises? Everyone knew something like this was just a matter of time!"
I am surprised the White House hasn’t started bragging about how they have created 100,000 new armed guards jobs.
I asked one if things had gotten that bad (as in need to CCW)
The answer - “not right now”. I found out later the parking lot was a war zone on paydays/welfare check day.....
Even more people go onto the state employment rolls. It is a jobs program.
We used to have a local neighborhod market that was picked over by shoplifters from the nearby projects - they left
The another one came, and hired security guards - and got accused of racism for challenging yoots with stuffed hoodies and big fat mama’s with strollers laden with stolen goods
They closed the market - now we have a “food desert”
Gee, imagine that. Government forces people to be dependent on government checks, then acts all surprised when those now dependent people get pissed off when the government stops writing the checks.
Now how the hell would have thought that.
Socialism is GREAT until the government runs out of other peoples money!
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