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In reply to the discussion: U.S. now on pace for European levels of austerity in 2013 [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)with loads hopelessly pushed out of the market.
There are very limited and diminishing unemployment benefits, there is a demand crisis, many have lost their property so they cannot grow food and are struggling to find shelter, we have millions of homeless (including children), and we gutted welfare because too many worry themselves that somebody, somewhere is getting over.
So what are we going to do with these folks, tama? Soylent factories, death camps, mow down chunks of the populace with machine guns, or just let "the useless eaters" starve or kill each other over crumbs from scraps?
What does the flood of jobless you want to pile on top of what we have do to the wages and opportunities still available?
I don't see how you wouldn't create conditions that would make the Great Depression look like tech boom.