The one thing no one wants to talk about during these hard financial times is crime. Crime is something the middle class usually attribute to those poor welfare scum too lazy to work for a living. Guess what, many of these new welfare scum, used to be the middle class, and guess what being poor has driven them to lives of crime. Fraud was never unknown amongst the middle class a little judicious fudging of numbers has been a time honored tradition that the upper middle class have always partaken in when it came to paying taxes. That was still a crime, but according to them it wasn’t anything like bank robbery. Of course now the upper middle class have decided they weren’t beyond robbing banks either.
Crime up as economy declines Area police report increase in thefts as times get bad
BY JONATHAN SHUGARTS REPUBLICAN-AMERICANWATERBURY — Michael Seifert, a New Milford resident, was collapsing under financial strain in 2007. His credit cards were maxed out, bill collectors were closing in and his children’s private school tuition was due. His debt had reached an overwhelming $145,000.
Authorities say Seifert would go on a serial bank robbery spree after he became cash-strapped, knocking over 13 banks in two states. Due to a weak economy, more people might be considering the path that police say Seifert chose to solve his problems.
Area police say they have seen an increase in petty crimes and burglaries recently. Car break-ins, shoplifting and drivers taking off without paying at the gas pump are on the rise, authorities say, and more of those crimes could be coming.
If this could happen to an ordinary guy probably from an ordinary family in a small Connecticut town, could it happen in your community? What is the breaking point for your average everyday ordinary parent? Could the financial stress get so much you would rob a bank? Could it get so much that you kill your kids and yourself? You might say it could never happen to you, but I would almost bet Michael Seifert said that about himself too at some point in time.
