Detroiters fight over living assistance

[Moe Bedard]

As I have mentioned many times, we are in a Depression and these are the first signs of what is to come in populated areas of the country. Violence will break out and this is where only the strong mentally and physically will survive.

Detroiters fight their way inside Cobo Center in Detroit on Wednesday to get applications for help with mortgage and utility bills. Threats were made, fights broke out and people were nearly trampled. (ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Press)

Cobo a scene of desperation
Social service agencies are bracing for more troubles

Some were treated by emergency medical workers on site.

It was one of the most dramatic signs to date of how deeply joblessness and the home foreclosure crisis have pushed people from the lower and middle ends of the economic scale to seek help wherever they can.

City officials said a total of about 65,000 people over the past few days have gotten applications -- due next Wednesday -- for a share of $15.2 million in federal stimulus money to help people avoid foreclosure or quickly rebound from homelessness.

Ultimately, as few as 3,500 people may receive the help.

Read more from the Detroit Free Press

[Irish Gal]

Originally Posted by Moe Bedard

As I have mentioned many times, we are in a Depression and these are the first signs of what is to come in populated areas of the country. Violence will break out and this is where only the strong mentally and physically will survive.

Detroiters fight their way inside Cobo Center in Detroit on Wednesday to get applications for help with mortgage and utility bills. Threats were made, fights broke out and people were nearly trampled. (ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Press)

Cobo a scene of desperation
Social service agencies are bracing for more troubles

Some were treated by emergency medical workers on site.

It was one of the most dramatic signs to date of how deeply joblessness and the home foreclosure crisis have pushed people from the lower and middle ends of the economic scale to seek help wherever they can.

City officials said a total of about 65,000 people over the past few days have gotten applications -- due next Wednesday -- for a share of $15.2 million in federal stimulus money to help people avoid foreclosure or quickly rebound from homelessness.

Ultimately, as few as 3,500 people may receive the help.

Read more from the Detroit Free Press

This is so, so sad, Moe. Thanks for keeping us updated on all this. I don't know where you get the energy for all this. It's overwhelming sometimes. I think you need to go surfing once a week - not every now and then!

[Moe Bedard]

Thanks Irish. My intentions are not to be doom and gloom but to prepare everyone. We must all be in top of our lives, finances, health and simple things like food at all times.

There are no jobs Irish and there is no end in sight that I see. 25% unemployment will be here by 2011. Mark my words, it will get VERY baaaad and some cities will almost resemble third world countries. Many men will be imprisoned for trying to eat and survive doing illegal acts they never would have done. Young men will join the wars. Many people who never ever thought they would be on welfare will be.

Getting food stamps and food assistance in the next 1-2 years will resemble this foreclosure crisis and these NACA events.

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[wonthefight]

Wow...this is very scary but we all need to prepare for the crisis coming ahead. The government can only prop up the economy for so long before it collapses.

I know that detroit has a huge budget crisis and was set for bankruptcy on oct 1st but I never followed up on this. It is sooo sad how working americans are being treated.

Unfortunately, the majority of the middle class listen to the main networks who are not providing the truth about our economy. Even when you try to educate these people they look at you like your the one with "three heads" or a conspiracy theorist.

Now that we know that a HUGE crisis is coming it would be nice to know what we can do to prepare for this.