RSSEconomic desperation and mob robberies? (Video)
Michael Haltman | February 27, 2011
During a disaster it would be called looting. What would it be called if it happened due simply to economic desperation and a family with hungry mouths to feed?
Looting can occur during a mass population dislocation caused by a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.
These were crimes that occurred primarily due to an opportunity presenting itself. Had there been no hurricane or blackout it is probable to assume that there would have been no looting.
What if looting began to take place not due to opportunity, but due to desperation?
What would you call looting that was occurring, not because of one specific event, but because of the hunger brought on by economic desperation. In America people do not generally know of this type of desperation. While too many people in the country do currently go to bed hungry, the vast majority do not. But...
- What if you lost your job, had no savings and had kids to feed?
- What if you were on food stamps but food prices spiked 50% and the food stamps were no longer enough to put food on the table three times a day?
- What if the cities, strapped by massive budget deficits, had to cut programs that had been feeding the people?
- What if food shortages began to hit the supermarkets, hoarding of food was taking place and people could simply not find enough food?
What would large groups of people rushing a food store to take what they could carry be called? Looting or something else? Perhaps something like mob robberies? Could the United States be slipping into an economic condition where these mob robberies will become just another story on the local news?
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