Reply #11: What will happen to those people?

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Well, being one of them, I have some idea.

If you have no personal support system or reserves, you are on your own -- the Katrina effect. There is no safety net! There is not even a hammock made out of dental floss. Does that need to be underlined, emboldened and repeated several times?

How many of those dangling at the end end of a short, frayed rope will be able to hold out much longer and where will they end-up? How many homeless people do we expect to ignore in this Grim New World? How long will we be able to deny the potential health impact as vectors for disease increase and hungry people roam the streets? How many people will be dying in abject poverty? The meter is spinning faster as the numbers grow. How many of them will we allow to be imprisoned for their crimes of vagrancy and begging simply because they are an unattractive nuisance to the haves? Oh, but the private prisons will provide almost free prison labor to corporations, so there is a bright side again ... for our Corporate Occupation.

Who really thinks they are immune to the outcome of spiraling societal impacts from this debacle, and for how long would that immunity last? What business model are we looking at when instability is the outcome? Chaos Capitalism may be a new term to coin because I am pretty sure there will be huge profits to be made in the accelerating decay of our very humanity.

When you are talking numbers like 2,000,000, (and potentially double that number in the future) people dumped into the heartless void of this society's new black whole of drugged-out and copiously entertained denial, that's not only an individual and collective crises at the onset, it creates certain formula for some heavy-duty, widespread impact. There will be a price that those not effected will eventually pay and it seems that we are on a sow-and-reap track to disaster.

This is not about if or when. It is in our midst. We only need to know how much longer this descent will be allowed to continue and how low we are going to go as a society before we can muster the will to reverse the American Nightmare.