[ArrogantBustard]

I ran across this: Hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic in 1923 Germany on a gold-bug thread yesterday. One paragraph in particular jumped out at me:

By mid-1923 workers were being paid as often as three times a day. Their wives would meet them, take the money and rush to the shops to exchange it for goods. However, by this time, more and more often, shops were empty. Storekeepers could not obtain goods or could not do business fast enough to protect their cash receipts. Farmers refused to bring produce into the city in return for worthless paper. Food riots broke out. Parties of workers marched into the countryside to dig up vegetables and to loot the farms. Businesses started to close down and unemployment suddenly soared. The economy was collapsing.

Dig the bit about parties of "workers" "marching" out to the farm country to steal food. Wonder how that will work out here in the good o' US of A?

[MrB]

“parties of workers”...
sounds so benign.

Sounds like how our present day MSM would characterize it.

[Travis McGee]

Even a German “mob” of “workers” marching out into the countryside to dig up produce was most likely very orderly. After all, they were Germans, and that was nearly a century back, in terms of civilizational decay.

In our context, it will go straight to looting, riots, carjackings, and home invasions. Starving people won’t stay at home.

“When the music stops: How America’s cities may explode in violence”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2926391/posts?page=535

[Salgak]

ArrogantBustard asked:

Dig the bit about parties of "workers" "marching" out to the farm country to steal food. Wonder how that will work out here in the good o' US of A?

Well, re: DC and Virginia. . . .they've got to make it through 50 miles of heavily-armed suburbs to the FIRST farms. . . .and they tend to be Cattle Ranches or Horse Farms. You want anything CLOSE to regular food production, you have to be well into the Shenandoah. Which has, albeit low, "mountain pass" chokepoints on the three major routes (Virginia 7, US 50, and I-66W) followed by quarter-mile span bridges over the Shenandoah River. There's a REASON I live on the "safe" side of both sets of checkpoints. . .

[TADSLOS]

Dig the bit about parties of "workers" "marching" out to the farm country to steal food. Wonder how that will work out here in the good o' US of A?

Mad Max comes to mind.

[jboot]

Those "worker parties" returned to the cities to sell their stolen goods at a massive markup (and the only currencies they accepted were gold, foriegn script and sex). They were known as Shieber and many of them were violently done away with, either at the time or later by right wing street militias or later still by the Nazis. It turned out that folks had long memories.

Americans have long guns to go with our long memories.

[Elsie]

Wonder how that will work out here in the good o' US of A?

Well, in Central Indiana they'll have to wait until the field corn and/or the soybeans ripen.

Otherwise they gonna STARVE!