When the economy disintegrates, what will people do?

[Deja Q]

Kill themselves?

Slowly rot?

Martial law gets declared

Magically figure out that the leeches in power have not been on their side and will then gang up and revolt? (my response is "rofl: not in this country)

[acmejack]

1. Starve

nt

[jukes]

2. ride the rails

& starve in enormous numbers.

[murray hill farm]

3. until then....

keep repeating over and over..."Oh no that cannot happen here..this is america" "Oh no, that cannot happen here..this is america" "Oh no, that cannot happen here...this is america".

[FloridaPat]

4. I think this time it will not be pretty. Extremely high crime. Riots in th

street if people start starving. Martial law would be interesting with all the reserve units in Iraq. Probably have to close Washington to keep the people from stringing up our great leaders that got us into the disaster,.

[oneold1-4u]

7. Atrocities

We are now a nation becoming hardened to atrocities as an everyday occurrence. They seem to be happening each day in every corner of the world and war(s) are a huge part of it. When the time comes that more actually visualize even the possibility of starvation and their children suffering the maladies of malnutrition, rebellion is at hand.
No martial, but vigilante law will be the course and vigilante could be better, at the local level on one hand, because the right ones will just take out the bad. For those who only know how to "take" and never ask or give the time will destroy them. That goes for individuals, groups, churches, organizations and nations.
There are still too many people in the world who know freedom and equality, that has been earned, and they won't die or go away!

[H2O Man]

5. Either share

or starve.

[Toots]

6. Americans own guns

It will make the "Great Depression" look like the golden years.

[ThomWV]

8. Let Me Rephrase Your Question. When "This" economy ....

There is always an economy whenever two individuals have dealings with each other. When one economy dies, or more correctly 'as' one economy dies, a new one generates out of the ashes and takes its place. This is not at all unusual, it happens all the time and in fact if you are of voting age you've already seen it.

The US economy of 1920 was not the same as the economy of 1940 and neither of them had much in common with the economy of 1960. What we have now doesn't much more resemble any of those three than the economy of industrial revolution England and the US today.

The thing to be concerned about the economy is its size and will it reflect the egalitarian principals of what we desire to be our Government? That points to a problem of perception.

Most people can not distinguish in their minds between political and economic systems. One can collapse without taking down the other. Consider this, the old USSR had a Democratic Political system and a Communist economic system. The USA doesn't have a Democratic economic system, it has a much regulated free market economic system. So it pays to give some thought to what it is you are actually talking about the collapse of. Also, just to toss another spanner into the works, the economic system is not one in the same as the nations financial system. In short the currency is not the economy.