Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
It doesn't matter if Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are both uncles of yours and you golf with them on the weekends - we all know a few folks who are loaded. However, stop the welfare payments, nationwide, for six weeks and it'll make the mess in Egypt/Turkey/Ukraine look like a pleasant picnic in the park on a warm Sunday afternoon. Yes, there are more millionaires in the U.S. in 2014 than at any time in the past but there are also more people on food stamps and welfare than at any point in the past as well. If you research what has caused some of the unrest abroad, it might make that a more poignant thing to consider.

I'm not suggesting I see a collapse but discounting various societal indicators simply because you know a few dozen people for whom money is no object is completely beside the point.
You are such a nice guy..gave too much credit for the entitled.. It only took 2 hours to cause mini riots in Florida last year