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48% Think Spending Cuts Could Trigger Violence (13% very likely)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 12, 2011

Posted on 08/12/2011 9:01:39 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: markomalley

Only 1/2 of the people are paying attention.
The feds/dims/marxists put our country on an unsustainable spending spree while the tax revenue was decreasing.

This was done intentionally by the Pelosi/Reid team in order to crash the system while the house is held by the republicans.

It is just a matter of time when the govt checks stop.
Then the poop will hit the prop and the baraq regime will have to step in to restore order. Their version of order with them in power.


21 posted on 08/12/2011 9:17:11 AM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: Cheetahcat

This isn’t the UK. It’s hard to loot and pillage when you’re bleeding from holes in your center mass.


22 posted on 08/12/2011 9:18:57 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: markomalley

Let it be in my time that my children may know peace.


23 posted on 08/12/2011 9:19:36 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: markomalley

Good. Let them start something in the concealed-carry states.


24 posted on 08/12/2011 9:19:36 AM PDT by NYCslicker
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To: markomalley
Do it!

The violence in MY neighborhood will be short-lived I can assure you!

25 posted on 08/12/2011 9:19:53 AM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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To: markomalley
Hmmm, let's ponder this:
  1. It's believed that spending cuts are likely to lead to violence
  2. It's also believed that tax hikes or a stock market crash are unlikely to lead to violence
Q. What type of people become violent when they aren't given something they want?
A. Children, especially toddlers or spoiled children

Q. Who *doesn't* become violent when something of theirs is forcibly taken or they suffer a loss?
A. Reasonable, mature adults and children

The violent ones are those taking; the non-violent are those who are being robbed. The scary thing is politicians use information like this when making decisions, just like lazy parents.

26 posted on 08/12/2011 9:20:08 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: markomalley

Don’t look now... it’s already happening. They’re called “Flash Mobs”.


27 posted on 08/12/2011 9:20:24 AM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: markomalley

America Held Hostage: The Sequel


28 posted on 08/12/2011 9:20:33 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: markomalley

If the cut that is needed comes, there will most assuredly be violence. Violence in urban, minority controlled cities. If you’re a law-abiding hard working taxpayer, you had better not be living there when it does happen.


29 posted on 08/12/2011 9:23:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GonzoGOP

Count me in the Very Likely group. It doesn’t mean don’t want the cuts. It just means you have to be ready for the riot. The cuts have to happen, there is no money remaining.


One of the so called “justifications” for the riots here in the UK were the massive cuts the government had to make to attempt to balance the budget, meaning the poor dears on the dole (welfare) can’t afford to get drunk every night any more.

Trouble is bearable, though, as always, paying for it falls on the usual suspects, while the bankers still make their multi million bonuses.

Sorry, slightly bitter about that - UK keeps its AAA credit rating, while my savings, to cover lean times like right now, are eaten by inflation running at 5 times the interest rate.


30 posted on 08/12/2011 9:23:30 AM PDT by EnglishCon
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To: all the best
"So are we to have government by the threats of thugs?"

Ahh Yeah...

Welcome to Two years ago!

31 posted on 08/12/2011 9:24:40 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: markomalley

“I am setting fire to this bodega because the Sooooper Committee implemented a 0.75% cut in the Food Stamp program”.

Somehow I just don’t see it.


32 posted on 08/12/2011 9:25:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: markomalley

Count me in among those who Believe There Will Be Blood when the checks stop.

Folks, take it from someone who knows the trucking/supply chain of our economy, when the checks stop and the riots begin, FOOD will NOT get to the grocery store.

No way in hell are truckers going to risk becoming a Reginald Denny for 15-18 bucks an hour and not being escorted in or out of the terminals without armored car protection..

STOCK UP NOW!!!


33 posted on 08/12/2011 9:27:20 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: markomalley

There will be violence.

From the left, from the bottom up -

Anytime you even suggest about opening talks to cut back on handouts to the new leisure classes (Holder’s People, illegals, etc.) the entire left goes berserk.

When the time comes and they actually do lose their free rides they will be in the streets determined to do some payback, some damage and some harm.

Look at the vicious mobs of racist YOOTS that are already wandering the nation pillaging, plundering and beating up whites.

And Look at the wackiness that just transpired in Wisconsin. and these were (supposedly) educated, middle class people.


34 posted on 08/12/2011 9:28:13 AM PDT by Iron Munro (One Trillion seconds = 31,709.79 YEARS / One Trillion dollars = Obama's spending for 3 months)
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To: markomalley

So lets see, “people” seem to think:

Spending cuts would = violence.
Raising Taxes would = no violence.

This explains why we always seem to lose then doesn’t it!


35 posted on 08/12/2011 9:29:28 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: markomalley

every conservative knows that if Obama looses in 2012 the riots are inevitable. The difference is that in England when they riot the people have to run and hide. In America when they riot we Lock and load.


36 posted on 08/12/2011 9:34:03 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: The Toll
Raising Taxes would = no violence.

Past due time to flip that calculus.

37 posted on 08/12/2011 9:38:15 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: BobinIL
Good. Let them take to the streets.

It'll be really damn easy to get a sight bead on them when they are out in the open...

38 posted on 08/12/2011 9:40:08 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: markomalley

Aren’t well past the time when anyone thinks we need to bribe black people to act like civilized human beings?


39 posted on 08/12/2011 9:42:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: mrmeyer

Just got back from the sporting goods store where I bought the Ruger Mini 14 I’ve been thinking about for the last month.


40 posted on 08/12/2011 9:43:04 AM PDT by dogcaller
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