Bad news for those wanting revolution.

[2naSalit]

36. For those not paying attention...

the drought of 2012 affected over 50% of the US croplands; many livestock producers-mostly beef-sold off the majority of their herds; those who didn't were allowed to graze their cattle on sensitive public lands beyond the normal grazing allotments to provide for their herds' most corn goes to ethanol production and less to the food supply... and that's just what i can recall off the top of my caffeine deprived memory at the moment.

I agree with the OP author, I am in the same boat as she only I'm fighting with the system to keep from losing my ability to rent the shanty I inhabit because I was injured on the job (back in July) and the workers' comp pukes are fucking with me about getting proper diagnosis and maybe someday I can have some kind of actual medical attention to help heal the problem, until then I can't work at all, and I have not only always supported myself but spent several years supporting sisters who were getting divorced with children... back when there was a relatively better economic environment in this country.

Those who can afford the movies and anything outside of basic survival ability just don't get it. And I would go so far as to add that those who don't have a stable income and waste miniscule financial resources on stupid things are conditioned to think that they are not part of the socially acceptable ranks if they don't make a show of their faux ability to have these things... it's how we ended up with so many with untenable credit card debt and medical bankruptcies for example. Another more relative and obvious example would be what everyone saw last Friday at the malls of America.

The food crisis will be felt hard by the end of next spring and there will be a lot of angry, scared people trying to get food. The rich have been working overtime to make this a reality... why? So that they can degrade the once middle class into worker drone slaves who will do whatever it takes to feed themselves and secure some kind of sub-standard housing to survive. And "whatever it takes" is a pretty desperate mind set which will promote further degradation of the social fabric.

Just look at that POS Blankfein now boldly parading about on FuxNews and elsewhere touting his faux intellect trying to convince the pre-conditioned, dumbed down masses that they have to give him and his cronies the rest of what we have, that they haven't already stolen from us, because they need more yachts and to own our public lands so they can sell them off to the highest bidders. He's doing god's work after all... in his own words. Wonder what god that is. The weenie-waver class of bullies is hosing us and we need to change that.

So those of you who want to argue semantics can continue to feed the beast and place roadblocks to anyone trying to reason this set of dire issues in a public forum. When you have no food because there's none at the store, maybe you'll consider what you were saying here when some were trying to work through the mental mire and come up with some possibilities that could grow into solutions that we can all participate in.