[goat granny]

My father worked as a cop in the city of Detroit...Very few people know that citys made their own money. It was called Script. He was paid in script and stores took the script and went to city hall (or where ever it was) and gave money to the business man in return for the script...Not all stores took script, but most did...we always had food on the table, so did most of the neighbors. Script paid for food not beer, cigarettes etc. In other words, it paid to feed you....many farmers raised their own food and were not as hard hit as some others...my mother canned all summer for feeding us in the winter....

I am sure there was lots of propaganda from the government, my in-laws did fine also....the lazy never do well. But you did help your neighbor if needed...Hard times makes hard people and we needed hard people for the war that came and ended the depression...

[Marcella]

During the depression, my father had a job in the east Texas oil field that was booming. They also had a garden and canned food for the winter. He raised two pigs every year and slaughtered them in the fall and had a meat house for that meat during the winter. Pork sausage was also made from that meat.

They grew up without power and knew how to live well by doing it themselves.

When I began prepping in 1998, I assumed there would be no power, and I would have to live like they did growing up. That was a good example for me to follow.

[longtermmemmory]

how long would NYC last if they had to go through a Great depression? Weeks? days?

look at the movie atlas shrugged.

There was a man holding a sign, “MBA, CEO, will take ANY job”

How about the stock brokers selling apples in the 20s?

How about the recent hong kong car dealer selling a 200k car for 25k because he need cash immediatly?

[miss marmelstein]

Holy Cow! Freepers now think that the Depression was simply smoke and mirrors!

Those marathon dances were staged!

That dustbowl was really Nascar races kicking up some dirt!

War hero Audie Murphy didn’t grow up in an abandoned railroad car eating only jelly sandwiches - he was really just a lazy bastard!

John Ford and John Steinbeck made up all that stuff about hungry Okies in California!

So did commie Harper Lee when she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”!

“Apple Annie” is just a figure of my fevered imagination! And those guys selling pencils in the street were lazy bastards worse than Audie Murphy!

I want to laugh but I feel like crying.