Why civil unrest is not out of the question in the United States...

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Port1385, Mar 6, 2009.

  1. jd7419

    jd7419

    People are fat lazy non productive crybaby slobs who want everything. These people love the words fair share, entitled and deserve. Personal responsibilty is despised by them and they love sitting on their asses doing nothing. They voted Obama in who said he was going to rob peter to pay for all their wildest dreams. So yes civil unrest can happen.
     
    #21     Mar 6, 2009
  2. ...you lost me.:p
     
    #22     Mar 6, 2009
  3. My former Mercedes dealer was the worst. They would say they replaced the windshield wipers when they didn't, the oil always looked dirty after a change, they would give away things like stainless steel coffee mugs if I gave them my customer survey to fill out and return to M-B.
     
    #23     Mar 6, 2009
  4. I was there a few years ago - those blue strobe poles really freaked me out
     
    #24     Mar 6, 2009
  5. it didnt?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

    On 28 July, 1932, Attorney General Mitchell ordered the police evacuation of the Bonus Army veterans, who resisted; the police shot at them, and killed two. When told of the killings, President Hoover ordered the U.S. Army to effect the evacuation of the Bonus Army from Washington, D.C.

    At 4:45 p.m., commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, Fort Myer, Virginia, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of Civil Service employees left work to line the street and watch the U.S. Army attack its own veterans. The Bonus Marchers, believing the display was in their honour, cheered the troops until Maj. Patton charged the cavalry against them — an action which prompted the Civil Service employee spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"

    After the cavalry charge, infantry, with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, entered the Bonus Army camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River, to their largest camp; President Hoover ordered the Army assault stopped, however, Gen. MacArthur—feeling this free-speech exercise was a Communist attempt at overthrowing the U.S. Government—ignored the President and ordered a new attack. Hundreds of veterans were injured, several were killed — including William Hushka and Eric Carlson; a veteran's wife miscarried; and many other veterans were hurt.

    The Posse Comitatus Act — forbidding civilian police work by the U.S. military — did not apply to Washington, D.C., because it is the federal district directly governed by the U.S. Congress (U.S. Constitution, Article I. Section 8. Clause 17). The exemption was created because of an earlier "Bonus March". In 1781, most of the Continental Army was demobilised without pay, two years later, in 1783, hundreds of Pennsylvania war veterans marched on Philadelphia, surrounded the State House wherein Congress was in session, and demanded their pay. The U.S. Congress fled to Princeton, New Jersey, and, several weeks later, the U.S. Army expelled the war veterans back to home, out of the national capital.

    An infant, Bernard Myers, later died in the hospital after the incident but reports indicated the death was not caused by the evacuation of the BEF.
     
    #25     Mar 6, 2009
  6. make sure u have a loaded gun and its aimed correctly

    this has gone far enough and its time for the people of this Nation to stand up and do whats right
     
    #26     Mar 6, 2009
  7. ok so tell us what is right tracer619
     
    #27     Mar 6, 2009
  8. mr888

    mr888

    Several reasons, in the 1930s people still grew their own crops somewhat and community's were more tightly knit for a barter like trade, not to mention the U.S was 98% White back then and people were a little smarter, these days no one grows shit, dumbed down by the media, if the grocery stores closed down one day, people would kill each other over a loaf of bread, never mind racial tensions in such situations, or maybe OBAMA WILL SAVE US??? lol
     
    #28     Mar 7, 2009
  9. glennku

    glennku

    People have no hope of making money and they want to eat but they still want Mercedes car.
     
    #29     Mar 7, 2009
  10. Nagelis

    Nagelis


    Yes it can happen because of the ignorance of people like you. You clearly haven't got a clue how it all works.

    Obama or not, you will have to pay for the enormous mess created by "fantastic" Bush & co and the money men from Wall Street anyway. Someone will have to clean this mess up. And it can only be cleaned up by changing those habits that got us in this mess in the first place. When will you get that part?

    Or did you think the robbery by our "productive" wall street bandits, - yes these guys with a lot of "personal responsibility", who robbed us all but now want us to bail them out- could last forever?

    The man in the street, who struggles to survive, can now see how the greedy money men from wall street got ever more rich by creating absolutely nothing, by a culture of greed and deception, on the back of... the man in the street.................

    Look at the causes of the subprime crisis, at Worldcom, Enron, Martha, Madoff and so many other examples, the greed of the banks and those in charge of the banks: it becomes clear that very often it is not real productivity and hard work but greed and being good at deception that brings money and a good life. And if that fails, ask the man in the street to bail you out... That sets a good example!

    So if the real productive hardworking man in the street loses his job, his home and has a mountain of debt but he still needs to feed his family, how do you think he will feel?
     
    #30     Mar 7, 2009