I'm almost sure someone started a topic like this the other day. Oh no...nevermind...it was a subtopic
here.
I read last month that 12 million nationwide are slated to lose benefits in December.
What's happening is as you said, more crime, more people being defined as criminals (defaulting on loans and credit debt payments), more suicide and
murder-suicide, more desperate people everywhere. People moving in together (like we said in the other topic), people either pooling together or
getting uglier in competing for the jobs that are still available...I'm sure we'll see all forms of the human psyche and the corresponding
behaviors, the good and the bad.
I'm in GA too and took a friend to register for unemployment yesterday...the place was bursting at the rafters. Literally. And that's saying a lot
considering we were told by workers there that no one even needs to visit the office anymore other than to file a new claim...they're far too
overloaded to even run their customary training classes now on how to file and claim weekly (it's a video now) or to even have anyone come in for
what used to be mandatory checkpoints on job seeking (I'm sure abuse is probably high now too with less checkpoints in place). The irony of all this?
Their staff was cut almost in half from 2008 to 2009.
And I'm sure that other public relief will soon be facing the same crises as far as funding goes...food, shelter, and healthcare may become true
luxuries.