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To: djf

What would happen if:

Everybody gets up this morning to go to work. It’s not a national or state holiday.
None of the banks open their doors and no ATM’s work, or electronic money transfers.

Think about it. What would happen? How quick?<<<

24 hours, when they sober up.

You and I will do what my friend Mary did, “carry on”.

In the 1930’s, Jay went to open the banks door, they needed money to pay the cotton pickers on their small farm.

The door was locked and and a hand hung a sign in the window that said “This Bank is Closed”.

It was rough on them, one baby died, there was not a choice of foods or medicines available to feed it.

Jay finally had to ask for gov food and was told “NO, not until you eat the cow”......which they needed to keep the other baby alive, as Mary’s diet did allow her to produce milk.

This was Yuma County, in Wellton, Arizona.

Times were difficult, they couldn’t afford to work the fields and would go the mile to the river bottom, cut branches off the Cottonwood trees and feed them to the cow.

On the morning that Jay killed his last chicken and Mary used the last flour, a rancher came and got Jay for a day’s work, paid him one dollar.

And they managed to survive.

My parents were sharecroppers in Texas, the dustbowl hit and there were not crops, they lived on wild gourds and cooked them with dried cow manure.

Then we went to California as fruit tramps.

That is real life.

If it is sudden, it will be as they said it would be in San Diego during the cold war, that there was enough food in the stores and warehouses, that the gov would take instant controll of all food and in time dole it out.

Will it be like Jay and Mary, eat the dog and cat, then talk to us about beans and flour?

It would take an honest gov a month or more, to get/dole out food, if they really tried.


39 posted on 02/09/2009 2:21:52 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?page=1 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Wow!
That’s real life!

We were dirt poor when I grew up, and I ate my share of dandelions and crawdads.
And the gummint cheese...

But the gummint gave away all the cheese.

http://www.endtimesreport.com/Starvation_In_America.html


42 posted on 02/09/2009 2:26:20 AM PST by djf
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To: nw_arizona_granny

“In the 1930’s, Jay went to open the banks door, they needed money to pay the cotton pickers on their small farm.

The door was locked and and a hand hung a sign in the window that said “This Bank is Closed”.

It was rough on them, one baby died, there was not a choice of foods or medicines available to feed it.

Jay finally had to ask for gov food and was told “NO, not until you eat the cow”......which they needed to keep the other baby alive, as Mary’s diet did allow her to produce milk.”


I think that you would like the movie “The Southerner” about a sharecropper family of the 1930s.
http://www.amazon.com/Southerner-Zachary-Scott/dp/B00000IO3T


199 posted on 02/09/2009 9:07:25 AM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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