{"id":39042,"date":"2013-10-16T06:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39042"},"modified":"2013-10-16T06:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:34:38","slug":"i-vote-portent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39042","title":{"rendered":"I Vote &#8220;Portent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EBT computer system in Louisiana went down for a few hours.\u00a0 The EBT cards did not show a credit limit.\u00a0 Shoppers were pissed so Wal-Mart management said \u201cIgnore the limit, honor the cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers went on a spree,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksla.com\/story\/23679489\/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch\" target=\"_blank\">cleaning out the store<\/a>. You know they\u2019ll never have to pay it back.<\/p>\n<p>Question is: is that a particular cultural thing specific to Wal-Mart shoppers, or a portent of things to come when the US government no longer can pay its debts?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two iron clad rules of human behavior:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a crisis, humans will exceed authority&#8217;s expectations. \u00a0Sometimes.<\/li>\n<li>If it&#8217;s not a crisis, but merely entropy setting in? \u00a0All bets are off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>OK, so those aren&#8217;t so much &#8220;iron-clad rules&#8221; as they are signs I&#8217;m un-thrilled about the prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: EBT computer system in Louisiana went down for a few hours.\u00a0 The EBT cards did not show a credit limit.\u00a0 Shoppers were pissed so Wal-Mart management said \u201cIgnore the limit, honor the cards.\u201d Shoppers went on a spree,\u00a0cleaning out the store. You know they\u2019ll never have to pay it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-plagues","category-money","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39044,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions\/39044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}