How long until riots begin in the U.S.?

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If things continue in the direction they're heading, at the speed they're heading...

I mean, if you're not worried about this, and if you don't see how real a possibility it is, then you're really not paying attention. The riots happening in London right now don't just happen because some teenagers are bored or because the cops shot some guy. They can only really happen in a society that has been driven to desperation, that has lost all confidence in legitimate means of political discourse and turned to violent ones instead. And the economy is only going to get worse, and zero politicians, here or in Europe, are proposing actual solutions.

Obama gets up there and says that America will always be a triple A nation, and he looks like a total idiot. I'm sure he knows that he sounds like an idiot, the dude's intelligent and clearly has access to more information than most people. But he sounds like an idiot. The economy is in free-fall. There never was a recovery, which is why the "jobless recovery" meme was bull. The markets are now realizing this, and retreating like frightened animals into the one place they think is still safe.

Full-scale riots and mass protests probably won't occur until at least 2013 when a Republican is president and his/her economic policies just make things worse. By that point what remaining confidence in the political system there is will be lost.

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If things continue in the direction they're heading, at the speed they're heading...

I mean, if you're not worried about this, and if you don't see how real a possibility it is, then you're really not paying attention. The riots happening in London right now don't just happen because some teenagers are bored or because the cops shot some guy. They can only really happen in a society that has been driven to desperation, that has lost all confidence in legitimate means of political discourse and turned to violent ones instead. And the economy is only going to get worse, and zero politicians, here or in Europe, are proposing actual solutions.

Obama gets up there and says that America will always be a triple A nation, and he looks like a total idiot. I'm sure he knows that he sounds like an idiot, the dude's intelligent and clearly has access to more information than most people. But he sounds like an idiot. The economy is in free-fall. There never was a recovery, which is why the "jobless recovery" meme was bull. The markets are now realizing this, and retreating like frightened animals into the one place they think is still safe.

Full-scale riots and mass protests probably won't occur until at least 2013 when a Republican is president and his/her economic policies just make things worse. By that point what remaining confidence in the political system there is will be lost.

I'd love to live in New York, but unfortunately I do not. DC is pretty cool though.

My God you are irritating.

Don't you have some thread in the Forum Community to post in about what song you're currently listening to?

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Well, NY is a nice place to visit (Greenwich Village FTW), but that was not what I was getting at. The post you made which I responded to is a near mirror copy of numerous other posts made by our resident concern troll.

Nah, I'm a better writer than he is.

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Maybe I am just naive to the attraction of rioting, but what would we actually be rioting for?

To make people pay attention.

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J.J. is wrong again! Are public employees incredibly unpopular? The answer, as polling shows us, is a clear no!

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That's just one poll though, he surely says. Let's check another. This poll is just a poll of California, but that's a pretty big state!

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Here's a Pew poll that asked specifically about public employee unions. Let's see what they have to say!

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This CBS News poll doesn't specifically ask the question, but it does ask a bunch of questions about public employees, and in all of them the respondents seem favorable, even going so far as to support raising taxes instead of cutting benefits/salary for public employees! If that's not proof that the public absolutely hates government workers, I don't know what is!

Even this conservative think tank, WPRI, found in its poll that teachers and public employees are very popular:

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Well, that's enough yelling at my house for it to change color for today!

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