[Adonis]

(09-24-2016 07:43 PM)dispenser Wrote:  

To point out the elephant in the room, they're rioting because they're not going to be president any more.
Not likely to be again for at least another 16 years, low odds for even 32 years.

Liberal white people thought that electing Morgan Freeman-Mandela would make black people settle down, but they've just tasted blood.

Its actually far worse than that. There are two sides to this recent urban disorder. Social, which is the case we have here in which they rebel against the political power structure aka "the system" aka "racism". They're merely acting out against perceived injustices of a convenient nature. So, put simply, they are rioting because they "want to".

The second side is far more dangerous, and that is the economics. Take a look at this SNAP (food stamps) participation rate graph.



Its no secret, and no one can argue, that the US Govt's fiscal position is unsound and on a deteriorating trend. I have every confidence in Trump, but should an obstructionist congress play budgetary games, or OPEC pull another embargo, or any one of a myriad of occurrences there is a high likelihood that the govt will find its balance sheet in extremis. Continuing resolutions, sequestration, delays in pay for the military, and furloughs for federal employees all have very recent precedents. What happens to EBT transfer payments in this scenario? To date there have only been geographically isolated short term outages across several states (SNAP/EBT Outage Archive) lasting about 5-7 days.

What worries me is what the urban disorder will look like when they riot because they're starving and they "have to".