How bad do things have to get before people march in the streets?

There is a growing problem of unemployment, low wages, and increased cost of living.
Inflation could also potentially soon become a problem.
How bad do things have to get before people get angry and demand the government does something different? I mean where people become fearful and concerned enough that most of them actually take the effort to learn about politics to know they should vote for? How bad would things have to get before widescale riots broke out?

 

Until people realize that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans really know what they are doing and neither have the interests of the average citizen in their hearts, disatisfaction with the government will remain civil. It will basically take a massive economic collapse (including a massive decline in the value of the U.S. Dollar) and a failure by both parties to deal with the economic calamity before people get angry enough to demand real change and riot in the streets.

 

By that time is will be too late. It will be like the 30's with bread lines and bank foreclosures on peoples homes. That is why this next election is so important. Obama is incompetent (to quote Bill Clinton).

 

My god, haven't you noticed the Occupy Somewhere folks are marching and smashing windows and crapping in the streets. What more could you watn? Presidetn Obama supports them, Rep. Peolosi supports them, the fat man supports them.

 

when the Repubs destroy Social Security, Medicaid, and kill Food Stamps... that's when all hell will break lose. Till then, enjoy your hot dogs, football, and video games America..... and your slow rate of decline

 

Did you miss the bit where they voted Obama in to get change from the Government which caused unemployment, low wages and increased cost of living?

 

Sorry, but Social Security has already been destroyed by liberals and Medicair soon will be. And, when the liberals have everyone on food stamps, then you'll see some marching.

 

Someone please tell me what good it would do for me to riot in the streets?

It usually just hurts people that have nothing to do with the problem.

I take a different approach...I grow my own food and try to stay as independent as I can.

As much as possible.

 

Cow cookies. Liberals crerated Social Security and the right wing has been trying to kill it ever since.

Try getting your information from someone beside the Rushblob and his tribe.

 

As bad as 1929 or a situation close to that (something that hits the masses, economics, food or terror) And if you see marching people in the steets this means the systeem has caused/organized a widescale revolution (do never join these protests marches, because if nobody does they cannot use that mass for their political advantage)
The best thing to do is be prepared (food and water for months) and do nothing, because if nobody start to riot, plundering stores, no police and military will be put on the streets in large numbers. Your government is full of revolutionaries and has caused several revolutionary groups. They have try to cause revolutions in all kinds of ways over the past eleven years. Via immigrants/immigration (Mexicans), via 9/11 (AE911truth), via economics (OWS), via politics (RP revolution) These smaller revolutions could have been a test or to get people get used to them (repetition in the media)

 

How bad? About as bad as the government employees revolt in Madison, Wisconsin.

 

How bad? About as bad as the government employees revolt in Madison, Wisconsin.

 

I saw a man on the news this morning who was rioting in the streets of Italy talking about how it seemed to happen all of the sudden that he had nothing and could not afford to put food on the table for his family. It didn't happen all of the sudden. What really happened is that he was lied to by his government and he chose not to see what was really happening. The same thing is going on in the US. So that's my answer -- people will not riot until it's too late.

 

It's too late .
But some good Martial Law will keep the underbelly under control .
Why America thought they could win wars , spend fortunes on failing , and never pay a terrible price is beyond belief .
The Conservatives and Gun terrorists have brought America to its knees .Conservative attitudes have brought the Empire to a grovelling end --- help me , Bejing . I beg you .

 

You think it is just conservatives? Try the entire US government, Republicans AND Democrats.

Resolution authorizing use of Force in Iraq:
Without the majority of Senate Democrats and a huge chunk of House Democrats, the resolution would have failed and the blood for oil and contracting $$$ Iraq War would have never happened.

Let's not forget that Obama himself voted to increase funding for the war and was against any timetables to pull out troops...that is until he thought he would run for president and then magically changed his tune (at least publicly, privately he is still very much pro-war).

Resolution authorizing use of force in Afghanistan:
Only one single Member of Congress voted against it. Just one.

Obama's Billion Dollar Libyan War:
He didn't even bother to ask Congress for approval and violated his authority to conduct an offensive war.

Conclusion:
Both Republicans and Democrats love war. It makes them look powerful, useful, and makes their donors rich. Obama continues the tradition and begs for more loans at the feet of:

CHINA


JAPAN


SAUDI ARABIA


BURGER KING

 

well Anders H , I've wondered the same things myself , and in my opinion , it should have already happened .

only thing I can deduct is that it will take some sort of intense catalyst to start it.

no way of knowing what that will be .

 

Let PinkSlip Romney get in there and watch the streets burn....

 

Great question.

The spark of protest to riot to eventual change is a lighted match of unknown origin.

Recent riots in london were over one man being shot, riots in california in the 90s over a shooting. And in between all the marches and apathetic protesting that were peacefully squashed by police pressure.

But the boiling point is building. The human nature is about conflict after all. Who will be the next shot person and what carnage will it bring.

 

Oh? And in the three years and four months that President Messiah has been on the Throne, what has really happened? He's been nothing but a housepet for the Federal Reserve crime syndicate, sitting idly by while they "printed" trillions of worthless new dollars to prop up their phony, fraud-balloon "recovery. Fact: when Obama stumbled through the oath of office in 2009, the National Debt was $10.6 Trillion Dollars -- today, the National Debt is $15.7 Trillion Dollars! AN INCREASE OF OVER FIFTY PERCENT!

Under the magnificient leadership of President Wonderful the banks and the stock markets have been rescued, the country is drowning in debt, and the half of the population that pays no taxes is also the half of the population that is on welfare of one kind or another. But in all this time, President Sagacious hasn't gotten a single budget passed, nor has he made any effort at all to change the U. S. Tax Code to eliminate loopholes and shelters for his rich Federal Reserve insiders. And yet the unquestioning Libocrat idiots feast on every meaningless word that falls out of his mouth....

And you know what's truly amazing? There are some unobservant morons out there who actually want FOUR MORE YEARS OF THIS!

 

Don't forget the FEMA Camps and the now released Drones...protesting it appears will become very dangerous under this administration. In fact you could wind up dead or far-far away from home behind barbed wire. Just be a good little sheep and accept the crumbs we are thrown.

 

What's Romney's plan for the economy?

Cut taxes and increase military spending. Bush 2.0. We saw how great that worked.

When Obama took office, the economy was tanking at a -9% real rate, losing 700,000+ jobs a month, unemployment was skyrocketing upward, and the stock markets were crashing in the worst recession in 80 years. The housing market was destroyed and the economy was headed straight for a depression.

But now the economy has been growing steadily for more than two years, the private sector has created jobs every month for more than two years, stock markets are up almost 90% from their recession lows, and the unemployment rate has fallen from above 10% to 8.2%, and over 4 million private sector jobs have been added since Jan 2010.

I'll take this "incompetence" over Bush 2.0, thanks. Easy decision.

 

The economy has been growing steadily for almost three years, the private sector has created jobs every month for more than two years, stock markets are up almost 90% from their recession lows, and the unemployment rate has fallen from above 10% to 8.2%, and over 4 million private sector jobs have been added since Jan 2010.

When Obama took office, the economy was tanking at a -9% real rate, losing 700,000+ jobs a month, unemployment was skyrocketing upward, and the stock markets were crashing in the worst recession in 80 years. The housing market was destroyed and the economy was headed straight for a depression.

And you know what's truly amazing? There are some unobservant morons out there who actually want TO RETURN TO THIS!

 

PinkSlip's plan is to quadruple the size of every fat cat's wallet. Not much more than that really. Shovel all the cash to him and his corporate masters. Regular people? Screw them...good and hard. That's his plan.

 

After three years and four months it's NOT about Bush anymore, don't you understand that? All Bernanke and his handpuppet, Obama, have done is to go on a spectacular borrow-and-spend orgy unprecidented in the history of the world! The "Stimulus"! "Quantitative Easing I"! "Quantitative Easing II"! And all the rest of the insane Keynesian sleight-of-hand of "printing" trillions of worthless new dollars, giving them to investment bankers, propping up the stock market, and then using this bogus money to finance our own skyrocketing national debt! Where does this end?!

Indeed, all this "kicking-the-can", and "whistling past the graveyard" can only end in even more staggering amounts of debt amassed that can never be repaid. So, then what will Obama's handlers do? Will Bernanke simply repudiate the debt, allow the country to become insolvent, with the US Dollar no longer recognized as the world's reserve currency? The banker overlords would begin a currency reissue in which you and I will be screwed to death! What other choice is there, given everything that Bernanke/Obama have done from day-one of the Obama regime? Remember, Although Bernanke STARTED this whole monstrous Keynesian nightmare when Bush was still president, it is in full force today! Even now the rumors are flying that Bernanke is about to launch Quantitative Easing III, although the puke-factor is so great for anything called "QE" that they will probably name it something else....

PLEASE, give us a better probable outcome to all this! But make sure it is based on today's reality, not that of 2008, and bear in mind all the "fun" that's coming with the certainty of lethal tax increases on January 1, 2013.... And if you were to ask me, "So, what's Romney going to do that's any different", I'd have to respond honestly and say that I don't know -- but, could it possibly be any worse?

 

Relax,,,remember the Carter days,,,,,?, same thing, different Lib...LOL The election is just a few months away, and all will be better again...
Business is holding on to a ton of money, worries over Health Care, unemployment, and a election is holding things up. First break will be the shoot down of Obama care, they will start to breath. After Romney is in, everything will relax...

Same thing when Carter was in, high energy, high food, no jobs, housing a mess,,,hell you could not even finance a car. Once Reagan came in, things started getting better. We just have to get past the election..