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November 10, 2006
Great Depression photos - just a reminder of what is possible in America
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29 comments:
Oh sweet Jesus let this happen again to teach us a lesson
"Oh sweet Jesus let this happen again to teach us a lesson"
That's a dumb-ass, foolish remark. Believe me you don't want a depression. 100% annual inflation would be better than a deflationary spiral.
Who was that song by? I'm not familiar with modern music.
Word to the Wise--If you're planning to have children soon--DON'T. You're gonna be stressed out enough yourself without having to worry about the welfare of your babies....
A depression wouldn't teach anyone in this country anything. They are too stupid to learn. They wouldn't even know why it was happening. I laugh in advance at all the stupid greedy sheeple. Watch some more television, buy another ipod. Bwahaha!!
The kids can help me sell apples, steal from the neighbors and hold the hat when I go begging.
Plus, the government will give you money to feed your kids, it's called WIC.
I'm having 12 kids so I can get mucho welfare payments.
Teach the kids to hunt strays or kill the neighbors' pets silently like when I was growing up. My bro' and I put on special ninja costumes for this. If you live in the country, you can poach deer which taste better and generally are larger. Plus, they don't bark when hit by arrows or low speed ammunition.
Dogs are good food, and it's especially lean meat if they are strays. You have to dispose of the skin and bones carefully or you can run afoul of the SPCA.
My parents were teenagers when the market crashed in 1929.
They used to tell me stories about the Great Depression when I was a child(born in 48.)It was pretty scary stuff.
It was not something you would wish on anyone then, and certainly not wish on anyone today. People today are far too soft and spoiled to survive. Instead of pulling together, American's would turn on each other like rabid dogs.
"It's God's will or somebody else's fault"
i didnt see depression there i saw america as it was before stupid television,overpriced real estate,crowded malls.traffic.i would gp back to that simple life in a heartbeat.low stress,those fotos look like pictures of my aunts uncles and grandparents.most lived to a ripe old age and were very happy.most rich people i know are miserible and the happiest kids live the ghetto.
Stuck in so pa we never ate the rabid dogs.
Yeah, people in this country and Europe are too soft today which is why they should just die off. You can help them die off quicker by stocking up on ammo, hiding cans of food and storing potable water and shooting them when the riots start.
The kids that are happiest in the ghetto are the ones that are still free and breathing.
I don't care if we have the Great Depression II as long as my cable TV is not disconnected. I could not live without my SSI checks and MTV.
Go out and buy your organic seeds NOW!
Also, pick up a copy of "Square Foot Gardening" -- it's really the best book to learn how to do it efficiently.
The Greater Depression is the brightest future I can imagine right now :)
Much better than police state fascism, nuclear war, etc.
And of the 3, the Greater Depression you can actually SEE coming. You don't have to wonder "when are the powers that be gonna start WW3?" -- because we can't get inside their heads.
LOL @ priced-out renters!
-RE.Agent
My parents were in their late teens when the depression got real bad (early thirtys) and I heard all about it growing up. As I recall, they talked about being hungry, no money,all their relatives moving in with them who were destitute,and how much THAT sucked, and all the rest that you guys probably read or heard about. They survived that because of solid family units and doing without. I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine the chaos and crime that we will have to live with for who knows how long,when this hits. Maybe the government is refurbishing those decommisioned military bases and building relocation centers in anticipation of this. Who knows.
i teach my daughter not to waste food. she'll know what i'm talking about when depression hits.
You could keep alot of edible pets in the yard, but you'd have to drag them in at night, maybe in the barn or house.
I remember reading about how prehistoric Europeans would sleep with their animals to keep them warm in the winter. They probably had to sleep with the animals or the neighboring tribe would come and steal them.
Wealthy people keep large goldfish in artificial ponds in their yards. But, they also keep dobermans or other types of gaurd dogs in the yard, too. However, that's just another source of food.
Kweefer: Can I eat grass during the Next Depression?
I'll take depression over inflationary spiral any day.
Your money is worth a hell of a lot more during a depression.
Americans need to learn how to live again and a depression would do just that.
Yes to deflation, you are right on one point. As long as you have a job during a depression and no debt your standard of living can actually go up. During the Great Depression those who had jobs saw a increase in their purchasing power since there were alot of bargains on cars, homes, clothes, food, investments like stocks.
Still there were millions not so fortunate and were starving, homeless, living in shanties. Riots, crime, gangs, we almost had a socialist revolution.
Inflation/deflation, those who "have" always prosper. During Weimer Germany people got rich off inflation while the average joe lost everything. You dared not sell anything because by the time you tried to cash out that paper it was worthless and you had given away something of value.
Any government that is so irresponsible as to lead a nation into hyperinflation or deflation and a depression should fear the wrath of the people. Prison wouldn't be harsh enough for those politicians who betrayed their nation and destroyed its wealth.
keith,
thats not the great depression. thats my hometown...
greenwood, mississippi.
i asked my father once if he ever discussed the affects of the great depression with my grandmother.
his reply...
"her whole life, including my childhood, was a depression."
poor is poor, doesnt matter when or where.
Maybe half of those depicted the Great Depression. Try: no heat. Dad went down to the railroad with other kids to pick up coal that chanced to fall off the train. Happy to join the military because they gave you a blanket. Try: shoes with holes in the bottom. No shoes at all. Try: not eating for several days. Can't think, can't see straight. When's the last time you said "I'm starving!" and it was literal truth? Massive migration via hopping boxcars, looking for work. Broken families. Dad: "Sure, hot dogs were only a nickel, but who had a nickel?"
Yes, I have heard the stories. Criminey, that video does not tell half of it. People did not have "just enough". And BTW - HOUSING SPECULATION was in the mix back then, or so I'm told. Anyone care to chime in on the reality check?
It, as in "collapse" can happen again. But the level of affluence is so high now, along with other factors, it is impossible to say what GDII, should it occur, would be like. Post-collapse Russia? Paul Theroux's O-Zone? Will the internet still be available at the public library?
It's ok if americans don't get to eat for days at a time. The mass quantities of blubber surrounding the many of them can keep them warm and hunger free.
Shoot.... If you think that peacefull kind of dreamland that was once white America will be possible during depression two, I've got a house in phoenix I'd like to sell you. Today's angry hordes of third-worlders will be out raping, robbing, looting and shooting decent white folk (like in New Orleans) when they no can no longer live off the fat of white society. I just hope the multi-cult extremists are the ones they hit first and hardest.
Honica,
You are so right that you have been manipulated by a conspiracy. Into being a racist, that is. The ruling elites want you to hate, a technique going back to ancient Rome. Divide and conquer. What a dupe you are. And wrong about everything. Your "white America" never existed, and to the extent that it did, it was all built on the labor and cultural contributions of non-whites. I hope you come out of the coma someday - you sound like you have potential, if you weren't such a nut.
A second great depression is the optimistic option for the McUSA at this point. A 2nd dark ages is the more pessimistic view.
What scares me is that in the 1930's - America was a lean, mean, fighting machine. Smart, healthy and motivated folks made up our population.
Now we are the fattest, most violent, least literate, most medicated industrialized nation (by far). I think that instead of pulling together and working hard to get through it like we did in the Great Depression. We will throw a temper tantrum "if WE can't be #1 - NOBODY can" - and a nation with all the nukes we still have, could throw a bitch of a tantrum!
In short, a nation of Marshmallow Creampuffs.
This is so stupid. Great Depression pics? These could just as soon be "poverty in America" pics which have been relevant forever (and always will be since poverty, or at least relative poverty, is an endemic feature of every society - and I'm willing to bet everything that we won't end up in Great Depression levels of poverty.) The suggestion that we'll end up in a "great depression" due to housing is absurd. Downturn? Perhaps. Recession? Maybe. But the thought that a "great depression" will stem from the housing bubble is the same b.s. that came out of the mouths of people who forecast a collapse of our economy when the dot com bubble burst. At the very least, bears should be held to the same standards as bulls, and if we're willing to mock real estate (dot com) bulls for their foolishness, then we should also call out the bears for this kind of garbage.
Looks like the stupidest people
post here....and can you say
schadenfreude.
sad people
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