[2banana]

You mean at the end of the depression...?

Let's see - the average working joe in 1937 had NOTHING and was happy to feed his family that week. The average working joe in 2006 has a car, house, computer, TV, phone, internet, lives 20 years longer...(getting the point?)

[EGPWS]

You mean at the end of the depression...?

I remember my Father talking about that.

He had to walk 5 miles uphill to school in blinding snow and then walk uphill home through tornado's on the way home.

By the time he got home the fire was out and he had to walk the rail line (up hill) to pick up coal so he could warm his back by the potbelly stove until he turned around so he could warm his front.

Then he would go find a stick (uphill) so he could walk through 2' of snow (uphill) and when he found a mound in the snow he ran the stick into it and bagged himself a grouse so he could take it home (uphill)to feed the family.

Poor nowadays is not having the money to buy a Nintendo for your kids without using a credit card to buy it...

[Jeff Head]

Many people in 1937 actually owned a lot of what they had, however little. I know my own grandparents did not have a lot of luxuries or convienences, but they owned that old house, and that old car and had title to them clear and free.

I try and take after them...but the average Joe today is in debt up to their eyelids over the possesions they have in their home, but do not own. This is also an important point that should be "gotten".

Propserity is not necessarily about how many toys you have in your possession, but how many of the things that actually matter that you own.

Anyhow...back to my original point. I believe the similarities between this and that era are much more related to the rise of enemy nations and ideologies and the impact they can have on us, just as they had on the people of that era.