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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 676
12/12/2008 3:08 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
go ask a homless person how they do it, that should give you a good clue, unless you own land and then you better know how to farm and shoot a gun. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 389809
ass penis |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 676
12/12/2008 3:09 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
go ask a homless person how they do it, that should give you a good clue, unless you own land and then you better know how to farm and shoot a gun. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 389809
ass+penis dosent make baby |
| Bob your mom
User ID: 575565
12/19/2008 8:32 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT IS RAEDING THIS IS GAY!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Scully
User ID: 557804
12/19/2008 9:04 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They didnt buy anything they didnt need. They waited until they were almost frozen or boiled before using any means to relieve it...ie heaters/coal/fans. Presents were dead on....for what a person wanted....few stocking fillers.
They werent so scared to be friends with people. TV/radio wasnt the end thing......connections were with REAL people....not imaginery ones.
If lust wast available within a marriage....they just loved their kids more and denied their own feelings. If they got pregnant and couldnt deal....too bad...youre it. Stop having sex, be a robot....or die. Everyone gets sick....too bad.....you'll just die...slowly. You were rich and arent now....your kids will need you but you cant provide...so die.
A lot of suckiness in finances or time...kids dont care about...its an adult thing. If adults cant become kids again in an adult way...they are no longer useful in any way to themselves...but can be if they can revert to secure immaturity. |
| sunshine1963
User ID: 584675
1/2/2009 4:01 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They were better people then...most were skilled in many practical fields unlike the overspecialized cubicle rats of today...even those in the cities knew how to garden and many gardens sprang up in vacant lots...compare them to the metrosexuals today and thats the reason things will get out of hand...the first day the welfare checks bounce in the hood will show what kind of people a nanny state produces...good luck to all...
Yeah, no kidding, huh.
Two years ago my sister and I decided to go to Walmart for their huge early morning sale the day after Thanksgiving. We got up at 4 am to drive over and buy a tv or something. When we got there, there was not a parking spot in the entire huge parking lot...she dropped me off so I could get a place in the line while she looked for parking. My gawd, the line wrapped all the way around the building, and this was at 4:30 in the morning. Let me tell you, I didn't know there were that many thuggish looking folks in my town! It was a real eye-opener, cuz I figure that was actually only a small percentage of them. I thought about what it would be like if all of them were starving and I had some food. It's not going to be pretty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 353013
Now thats funny! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 373696
1/2/2009 4:13 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Many didn't.
Don't romanticize hard times. |
| Sam
User ID: 591528
1/12/2009 3:25 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
What we have to look forward to over the next 3 years:
1. Hyperinflation kicking in overdrive as the country is bankrupt. $600 trillion in derivatives that have to be covered with real money paid in U.S. Dollars by U.S. From 2009 to the middle of 2012 we will see prices skyrocket. The only way to prepare is to start stocking up on food and wait for Congress to create a new dollar backed by gold or combine the Canadian Dollar, U.S. Dollar and Mexican Peso to form the AMERO as they've been talking about for years. Don't forget the $75 trillion in unfunded liabilities and the $13.5 trillion the U.S. Treasury has spent on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. This includes the $8.5 trillion the U.S. Treasury begged from Congress to prop up the bankrupt banking system. As the dollar collapses and prices rise, creation of a new dollar is a certainty. Roosevelt gave Americans 1-week to turn in their gold or face a $10,000 fine, 10 years in jail or both. After the confiscation: Roosevelt revalued gold up 75 percent.
2. Great Depression II. A Great Depression is a contraction in real growth of 25 percent. Depression is a contraction of 10 percent and a recession is two consecutive quarters of contraction. The NBER admitted in December of 2008 that the country has been in a recession since December 2007. Of course we can never get the truth from our own statisticians as the recession began in March of 2007. I have no idea why the country has to lie about unemployment, employment, inflation and recessions. Tell us the truth some time and let us resolve to fix things. Hyperinflation begins first with the dollar collapse a certainty. The peak is June 21, 2012. The Great Depression will follow after Hyperinflation.
3. The only way to help yourselves is to plant your own food and stock up on canned goods. The United States went through Hyperinflation over 200 years ago when the Continental Currency collapsed. It seems that history repeates as the U.S. Treasury finds no way out of the current $600 trillion derivative collapse other than to print more money. Remember what Ben Bernanke said, "We have a thing called the printing press which allows us to print as much money as needed." He also mentioned that he would drop money by helicopters if needed. His nickname is Helicopter Ben Bernanke. The one individual who created this mess was Alan Greenspan who collapsed interest rates since 1987. He's retired and pretending that he's surprised at how things are turning out. Just one liar after another. |
| sandra
User ID: 602362
1/27/2009 7:10 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
bad people sucked back then even if there white they don't have homes hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
poor people they sucked!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Susanna
User ID: 621372
2/23/2009 1:46 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
My grandmother told us they had a bacon rind they used to grease the skillet until it could be used no more. People bartered one item for another. Coffee was extended with chickory. Wild greens were gathered and cooked for food. Dandelion is a wild edible green plant. To get seeds to plant they bartered for them also. If you were lucky you could find someone who would trade garden seeds. Polenta which is made with cornmeal, also known as cornmeal mush, was frequently used. Nothing was wasted. Mantra was Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 621406
2/23/2009 2:41 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
The Gvernment needs to subdivide one to five acre plots
of land along rivers and lakes, So the homeless can survive on fish and what they can grow,
Old vans can be towed in for a dry place to sleep.
untill they can find some building materials for shade and chicken coops.
If you have some land and fresh water,one can get by rather well
Sugar coffee tobacco thread needles cloth medicines
tooth paste toilet paper vanilla bullets shoes and clothing will all become luxurys |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 609652
2/23/2009 3:10 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Many people did not survive. Check out the numbers. Particularly 1931 and 1932 not good years
[link to www.census.gov]
population
July 1, 1939 130,879,718
July 1, 1938 129,824,939
July 1, 1937 128,824,829
July 1, 1936 128,053,180
July 1, 1935 127,250,232
July 1, 1934 126,373,773
July 1, 1933 125,578,763
July 1, 1932 124,840,471
July 1, 1931 124,039,648
July 1, 1930 123,076,741
July 1, 1929 121,767,000 |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 511292
2/23/2009 3:14 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They had real life skills.
Most people today will not survive.
How can they when most only know American Idol, video games and fast food? |
| yoozername
User ID: 635955
3/16/2009 3:46 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Have you ever had a lard sandwich? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 376301
Not sure if your 'lard' is the same thing as brit 'dripping'?
ie the fat that comes out of cooked meat and solidifies to whiteish gunge?
If so I had lots of em - quite yummy, when a child.
A 'dripping doorstep' a thick wadge of white bread with grease.
It must have been reasonably nutritious.
Anyway - surviving the depression?
First - foget all you ever learned about status. Anyone too proud to do the lowliest jobs - aint likely to survive at all. Consider all your 'talents'- not in cash terms - but in terms of what youve got to offer to everyone - in the hopes they might have something you need, to offer back.
There are many people who - by thinking about the needs of others - and how to supply them - have turned their lives around for the better - in the WORST times (Bick's Pickles)
And YES - grow things!! Millions more people can do this than they ever imagine. You dont need 'land'.
A good crop of mixed veg can be grown in a 'bag' garden - in a small yard or on a roof or balcony?
(Check out keyhole gardens and bag gardens, for the poor people of Lesotho, on Youtube)
There are people who survive some of the worst the world has got to offer - by 'working in their garden'
be it everso TINY.
God bless. Take care -
The world is wonderful, beautiful - and waiting to help you take care of yourself. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 106290
3/16/2009 4:02 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
More and more newspapers are running stories about the Great Depression. Some are soliciting elderly people to share their stories. Here's one of them that also talks about lard sandwiches:
Article published March 09, 2009
Ohio's elders urged to share lessons from the Great Depression
Agency seeks survivors' oral histories
By JANET ROMAKER
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Instead of peanut butter and jelly, instead of turkey or tuna, some children during the Great Depression toted lard-sandwich lunches to school.
They tucked cardboard into their shoes to cover holes to keep feet dry on rainy spring days. At recess, they played with sticks and metal hoops.
Some kids pulled rusty-wheeled wagons, piled high with newspapers or magazines to sell door-to-door to earn a few extra pennies to give to out-of-work parents.
Ohioans who lived during the Great Depression are being asked by the Ohio Department of Aging to retell the oft-told stories about sacrifices made and lessons learned during the hardest of hard times.
Stories will be shared with people today who are facing financial challenges during what some are calling "The Second Great Depression."
The economic environment is potentially as frightening to many folks now as it was to people who lived through the Great Depression in the 1930s, said Barbara E. Riley, director of the Ohio Department of Aging.
Stories told by children of the Great Depression often are funny or touching, Ms. Riley said, and on several levels, the stories are informative.
The recollections, she said, tell tidbits about how people responded to financial struggles then. It would be foolish not to listen to these stories to see how their recollections apply to today's world, Ms. Riley said.
This effort to gather memories isn't meant to be a scientific study, but rather a project that could help people connect to others and to their experiences, she explained.
There is much to glean from the stories, such as a better understanding of what shaped the lives of those who grew up in the 1930s. The stories, she said, can help generations, young and old, build relationships with each other, and teach how people can best adjust to today's economy.
"Hopefully we are flooded by memories and stories and that we can help folks understand what life was like then. I find myself thinking, things are bad, definitely bad," she said, but compared to what it was like during the Great Depression, we don't understand bad.
During the Great Depression, a worldwide economic downturn, which started in 1929 and ended at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries, millions of people were out of work. People lost their homes, their farms. But that generation didn't lose hope. Resilient and resourceful, people did what they could to deal with, and overcome, the overwhelming day-in, day-out adversity.
Lessons and advice drawn from these accounts will be shared in the Ohio Department of Aging's publications as well as on the department's Web site.
Children of the Great Depression are today's elders, and most are in their 80s or 90s.
Toledoan Virginia Weaver, 94, agreed that children of the Great Depression have valuable experiences to share, and she hopes people not only listen, but pay close attention, to what can be learned from words of wisdom about the importance of strong work ethics, family values, and compassion for others.
Ms. Riley noted that we should be collecting the stories now, before the children of the Great Depression are gone.
Unless the stories are preserved, she said, "I fear we will lose their experiences. They have something to offer that we should be listening to."
[link to www.toledoblade.com] |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 106290
3/16/2009 4:07 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
And another story about how it affected the children of the depression, and how it still affects them as adults.
Article published March 09, 2009
For children of Depression, the lessons last
By JANET ROMAKER
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Stories told by children of the Great Depression are rich with recollections about how they lived when they were dirt poor.
Some people who grew up in the 1930s might not be able to remember where they put their car keys this morning, but they vividly recall nights several decades ago when they went to bed hungry or when they didn't have a dime for a movie ticket.
These long-ago memories stay fresh for a reason - growing up during the Great Depression is a part of who they are.
"I still scrape the last bit of mayo out of the jar because I was brought up that way," said Virginia Weaver, 94, of Toledo, who was in high school when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Some of her classmates at Waite High School couldn't afford to buy class rings. "They cost $7 at the time, and that was a lot of money then," she said.
And $5 was a lot of money for Ms. Weaver's fake beaver hat with long, flowing ribbons. One windy day as she walked home from school, the hat sailed into the muddy Maumee River. "I was afraid to go home," she said. She didn't want to have to tell that she lost the expensive hat.
She walked partway home to the Point Place area to save money. "It cost a penny to make a transfer on the streetcar and a penny was a lot of money. We saved every penny we could."
Compare that to now, when some folks won't bend over to pluck a penny off the sidewalk.
Children today, she said, should be taught how to save their money, not spend every cent they can get their hands on. "The generation today wants everything now and do not want to save," Ms. Weaver said.
A main point for people today: "Back then, people had to work for their money," she said. Nobody expected a free ride. And if you couldn't afford to buy something, you didn't.
Remember too that the children of the Great Depression are going through this tough economic time. Some elderly people recently lost huge chunks of money when the stock market tumbled.
And so the lessons of the 1930s are again lessons.
The other afternoon, after going to the grocery store, Ms. Weaver realized she had paid 89 cents for an apple. For one apple.
"I took it back," said the woman who recalls when poor people sold apples on street corners during the Great Depression. "I could not enjoy eating an 89-cent apple."
Children of the Great Depression learned to pinch pennies and to save their money before making purchases, said Lucy Spitulski, 80, of Toledo, whose mother gave birth to nine children. In a bedroom at home, not in a birthing center. With a neighbor assisting, not a team of medical professionals.
Her mother didn't have a choice, Mrs. Spitulski said.
Some families today complain about the cost to fill their gas tanks. Buying gas wasn't the problem for her family. "We had no money for doctors, no money to buy cars," she said.
Her parents' life savings, and money set aside to buy a grocery store, evaporated in an instant when the banks failed. "My parents lost their money," she said. "It was bye-bye grocery store."
There wasn't much money for groceries, either, but she said families could get surplus food at the local fire station.
"We had spaghetti time and time again, but it was better than starving," Mrs. Spitulski said.
At Ms. Weaver's house, it was "baked potatoes and onion gravy every Saturday night," she recalled. "I wouldn't eat onion gravy today, but that's what we did then."
A penny piece of candy or a single stick of gum was a special treat indeed. One toy at Christmas was considered pretty wonderful. And a trip to Tiedtke's in downtown Toledo? Magical, even if there wasn't money to buy anything.
Kids played together, and they had fun, said several children of the Great Depression, who were gathered the other day at the Eleanor Kahle Senior Center.
Most popular back then: inexpensive games. Jacks, marbles, cards. Or things kids could do for free: play freeze tag, climb trees, swim in the creek.
Thinking back, it wasn't so bad, really, the group agreed.
Life wasn't easy, but tough times brought people together. "Everyone was in the same boat," said Clara Zalecki, 87, of Toledo.
Although they were just kids at the time, they knew it was bad, but "nobody was telling us everyday how bad it was," said Ms. Weaver who doesn't think the constant, nonstop drone of "the sky is falling" news helps anyone now.
Instead of wasting time and energies on the negative, Mrs. Zalecki said, people should pay more attention to the opportunities out there, such as the chance for families to spend time together at home, at no cost, getting to know each other better.
Another suggestion: Get to know your neighbor. Don't just be a nod-and-hello neighbor.
During the Great Depression, neighbors were treasured. They helped each other. They offered support. They passed along hand-me-down clothes. They shared food from their gardens and farms.
"Neighbors did that," Mrs. Spitulski said, "because they were neighbors."
Nobody had much extra food, but mothers would scrounge up what they could to feed the hungry. Morsels of mercy, as it were.
Tramps - homeless people who relied on the kindness of strangers to survive - were welcomed into the neighborhoods too.
"Tramps would come to the house, and we would feed them in our backyards," said Mary Stelnicki, 78, of Toledo, who grew up in Appalachia. She was 17 years old when electricity was hooked up to her home. The family had an ice box, but rarely could afford to buy a chunk of ice.
Kids today might ask how her family kept ice cream cold. "I didn't even know what ice cream was," Mrs. Stelnicki said.
Fathers often were out of work, and breaking with tradition, mothers worked outside the home.
"My mother scrubbed floors," Mrs. Zalecki said. Her brother and sister had to work too. "All the money they earned went to our mother and father."
Money was scarce, it seemed, no matter how many family members worked, said Helen Coulter, 80, of Toledo.
"But we did not know how bad off we were," she said, mainly because nobody else had money either. "But it was different. Everyone helped one another."
It made a difference then. And, the children of the Great Depression said, it can make a difference today.
[link to www.toledoblade.com] |
| donkey
User ID: 657901
4/16/2009 8:23 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 656488
4/16/2009 10:03 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162
Millions of them didn't make it. Millions died.
This time it will be much worse. A far smaller percentage of the population knows how to be, or has the resources to be, self-sufficient. And there will be a huge law-enforcement problem this time around, as in, there ain't gonna be any.
Bankrupt cities = no cops, no firemen, and lots of armed gangbangers. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 656488
4/16/2009 10:06 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
One of the cheapest meals is dough fried in lard. It'll keep you alive. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 618413
4/16/2009 10:08 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT?
Millions of them didn't make it. Millions died.
This time it will be much worse. A far smaller percentage of the population knows how to be, or has the resources to be, self-sufficient. And there will be a huge law-enforcement problem this time around, as in, there ain't gonna be any.
Bankrupt cities = no cops, no firemen, and lots of armed gangbangers. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 656488
LOTS of them |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 265891
4/16/2009 10:57 AM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They sold out their future sons and daughters to industrial slavery under communism Quoting: Anonymous Coward 376019
Why not whine some more? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 265891
4/16/2009 12:31 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
what ev i do not care about this okay Quoting: Anonymous Coward 431842
Yes, it's okay, Twat. |
| A_Leopard_Sanctuary
User ID: 657970
4/16/2009 1:02 PM
 | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They his their sugar and vinegar underneath their farm buildings. Sugar was outlawed.
They saved up enough issued out stamp for auto petrol.
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Sure every post I have mentions goat blood...How do you think we get plasma tv's?
Organic needs are being assaulted. I'm not amused by this & encourage all to grow heirloom seed for themselves.
The garden gives greatest power.
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 265891
4/16/2009 1:12 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Realize that unemployment was 20-25% of the population during the depression. So that means 75% of the population WAS EMPLOYED! My grandfather and my mothers family didn't have any problems during the depression. My fathers side didn't have any suffering either. 75% OF THE POPULATION DIDN'T SUFFER AT ALL! You guys make it seem like the whole country was starving, not true, at all. For 75% of the people it wasn't a problem. The key is to keep your job...lots of people became rich, yes, rich during the depression. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 483806
You have my vote for 'tard of the week. I'd suggest that you brush up on some facts before spouting off, but it would be a waste of breath. So, 'tard on, Tard. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 684408
5/21/2009 3:00 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Back then people had integrity and family values. Nowadays I am not so sure. Me thinks it will get ugly. People want to take from each other and not band together and help each other. That is the whole problem. No unity. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 149882
you are so right on that one!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| mfgl
User ID: 616779
5/21/2009 3:16 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
When my grandma was a little girl she would wake up early in the morning and start baking bread, she would bake bread until after dark in the evening. They sold the bread to everyone in town, when people were short they gave them the bread. Her dad worked for bethlahem steel ( an hour and a half drive each way. then came home and made sure his 3 boys had done all the farm work, then did the work they could not do. Anyhow back to grandma, she said she did this bread baking duty every day, for years strait. sometimes the towns family had nothing to eat except her bread. When she turned 18 the government took away their farm under eminent domain and built a school on it, she was hired as a cook at that school. She worked that job 5 days a week and never missed a day except to birth her children (my dad and his brothers) she worked this job nonstop until she was 73. Her husband took over for her dad, he also worked the steel mills, then came home and ran the farm. She told me if he slept 3 hours a night he was lucky. I remember these stories from when i was young, but never really understood it until her funeral. Almost the entire town showed up, the older people spoke of how she kept their families alive with the free bread, the younger folks remember her making them breakfast and lunch thru all their school years. It is amazing to me how one person can touch so many lives. Human beings thrive in times of challange and hardship. WE go soft and stale when living the life of ease. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 672705
5/21/2009 3:19 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
They did what they had to do in order to get by, something the loser population we have today will never understand. Today if a job isnt up to the unemployed college grads standards then they claim there are no jobs available. Fast food, waste management, and prisons are always hiring. |
| Princess Bride
User ID: 684329
5/21/2009 3:27 PM
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Realize that unemployment was 20-25% of the population during the depression. So that means 75% of the population WAS EMPLOYED! My grandfather and my mothers family didn't have any problems during the depression. My fathers side didn't have any suffering either. 75% OF THE POPULATION DIDN'T SUFFER AT ALL! You guys make it seem like the whole country was starving, not true, at all. For 75% of the people it wasn't a problem. The key is to keep your job...lots of people became rich, yes, rich during the depression.
You have my vote for 'tard of the week. I'd suggest that you brush up on some facts before spouting off, but it would be a waste of breath. So, 'tard on, Tard. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 265891
I'm not going to be a tard. The suffering and death during the Great Depression was unimaginable.
That said, one of my great grand fathers did become rich during the GD. That was after a lot of suffering and hardship though, including the death of one of his children from malnutrition.
I know other people with similar family stories.
Heart of the heroes, ride.
Up through an empty house of stars,
Being what heart you are,
Up the inhuman steeps of space
As on a staircase go in grace,
Carrying the firelight on your face
Beyond the loneliest star.
"The Ballad Of The White Horse,"
G. K. Chesterton
This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence.
Thomas Hobbes |
| SiriusABC
User ID: 652635
5/21/2009 3:30 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
buying silver. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 471789
5/21/2009 3:34 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
Bankrupt cities = no cops, no firemen, and lots of armed gangbangers. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 656488
Not just ANY armed gangbangers, either, but armed gangbangers going cold turkey 'cause their interstate drug supplies stop being delivered. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 669258
5/21/2009 4:20 PM | | Re: HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | Quote |
ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT ? WHERE DID THEY LIVE WHAT DID THEY EAT???HOW THEY MADE IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162
I hear that the state of MA gave them free cars to live in and Opra showered them with free chicken. |
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