Whatever you say, Jesse.

(Newsmax) — Civil rights activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson warns that the American economy resembles nothing so much as the Titanic, and if President Obama and Congress doesn’t do something soon, America’s streets could easily explode in civil unrest.

Jackson warned in a Newsmax interview that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might have a point when he predicted rioting on the streets.

“There is real tension in the streets because people are becoming so desperate,” he said. “We’re really on the edge of an explosion.”

Jackson said it is time to revisit President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, targeting jobs to the most needy areas.

“We must now reconvene that basic White House commission on malnutrition and human need and not give jobs indirectly through tax cuts but direct jobs in the Roosevelt vein.

“When people are able to work they get their self-esteem back; their families gain strength again, they buy houses, they buy cars.

“But we are giving more and more to fewer and fewer and they are investing less and less. Put the money where the people are who spend it.”

Jackson likened the situation in America now to the sinking of the Titanic. “We keep feeding the wealthy on the deck while the water is coming in at the bottom,” he said.

“The great Titanic did not sink because the wind blew the chairs on the deck, it sank because the water came in from the bottom. The bottom is feeling the impact of rising water and desperation.