Damn! All the old people are out shoplifting!

[lonestarnot]

According to CNN, this is "a new disturbing trend." How fucking sad are WE! 65 year old perps were arrested at a greater rate than teens in Japan. The two individuals they spoke re in the report had stolen food for dinner, she had none and the male had stolen medicine for an upset stomach. His wife is in the hospital. Security felt sorry for them, so maybe we'll see a trend in free stuff. :think:

[lostnotforgotten]

1. The Message From Society Is Clear - If You Are Not Young, Healthy, Wealthy, And Thin

Then you are not fit to be a member and are left to scrounge any way you can.

[lonestarnot]

4. Young, healthy, wealthy, thin. Strange society, not one in which I find myself to be very

comfortable. The excitement in living has turned to the excitement for survival.

[lostnotforgotten]

7. Our Society Is Setup For Everyone To Be In Competition With Everyone Else

Laissez-Faire on steroids - if you are old then it's Soylent Green for you.

[lonestarnot]

8. Funny how it's not in ones best interests to get old, but everyone does, if one lives long enough.

:D

[lostnotforgotten]

9. Right No One Wants To Admit How the Game Of Life In The US Is Really Rigged

The best recent glimpse of rigging failures is the Wall Street collapse with the wealthiest's personal Icon represented by Bernie Madoff.

Trouble is that no one will learn and after all is forgotten, the old regimes will re-congeal and the behavior pattern will resume as if nothing had happened.

A really good view of this can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x51872#51900

[spinbaby]

10. Er, the story is about Japan

:eyes:

[lonestarnot]

11. And what, you don't think it could happen here?

:think:

[lonestarnot]

12. Rigged for an entire class from birth baby.

[lostnotforgotten]

13. Bingo - Upward Mobility - Bullshit!

eom

[geckosfeet]

2. Retirement accounts wiped out because you listened to educated business

experts about how here and when to invest.

You worked hard your whole life, saved, bought a house, paid it off and watch it's value drop 50% in three months.

These people are not suckers. They are mad. They are fighting back the only way they can.

[lonestarnot]

5. That was not the description of circumstances which I heard related as told by CNN.

;-)

[sohndrsmith]

3. have they investigated this "trend"??? Do you think the word DESPERATION

has any resonance or relevance to the so-called "trend"?? Good grief. People are suffering. It is not a secret that we are in the depths of a severe economic downfall... please tell me that people are making the connection with this new found "trend" and the increased hardship it poses on those who are least able to be self-sufficient or "pull themselves up by their bootstraps"... they may have no bootstraps - or have given them to their children. Or have just worn them out.

How sad are we if we don't recognize the bloody correlation between despair and desperate measures, and instead just produce a dramatic, superficial news story that has no deeper comprehension than it's own headline. Ugh. That's what's frikken sad, man...

[lonestarnot]

6. There must be something we can do before Jan. 20th. How many will actually die between now and then

as a result of desperation? 26 days. :(

[FreakinDJ]

14. In our "Madd Rush" to match Foreign Auto Worker's Wages

We need to remember in some of these other countries - "Life is Cheap"

I remember during the 70s in Korea, seeing dead bodies on the street and no one even bothered to pick them up. It was a great lesson in what our democracy was really about

[JohnnyLib2]

15. Do I have to learn new tricks now that I'm soc. sec. age?

Gulp.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. link please