I don't know if anybody has noticed but "S%^$ has been hitting the fan" for some time now, in fact the whole time this thread has been going society both socially and economically has been collapsing.

It's been happening a little day by day so you don't notice much, you just notice that things are a little worse and people are a little crazier from week to week. Every problem gets a little worse each week but nothing gets better.

When Illinois goes bankrupt officially that might push things over the edge where it can't be hidden any longer. Currently Illinois has not paid a "bill" in over 2 years, it has not ratified a budget in 70 months, every household in the state is on the hook for a staggering $27,000. per year, just to pay the state and local government pensions. There is a long list of other states that are almost as bad as Illinois

Washington state is considered in good shape with a 27 billion in unfunded liability for state and local retirements. All these government retirement systems nationwide are totally insolvent, trillions of unfunded liability, and all those drawers have tens of trillions of debt, living retirement one check to the next. In order to pay the monthly checks alone the systems need and 8 to 11% rate of return on the accounts, because of that all the money is in the only place you can make that kind of money, "the stock market", which is in the biggest bubble ever. when that bubble pops watch out.