HOW DID PEOPLE SURVIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION??? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 679335 United States 07/01/2009 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Federal Reserve Banking System, which was sold as a remedy for cycles of boom and bust (Business men and banksters were more responsible than Legislators to control the money supply, lol), shrank the money supply by at least 50%, thereby guaranteeing a depression. Yes, it's those same fun loving guys who are responsible to todays economic crisis. Will we ever learn? |
Princess Bride User ID: 715518 United States 07/01/2009 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THE NEXT TIME WILL BE A GLOBAL DEPRESSION Quoting: Anonymous Coward 228460You better to 'rethink' the actual consequences of what's coming. The Great Depression was a global depression, fyi. 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 spam [link to lunarose47.wordpress.com] blog[/url] spam [link to w11.haters] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 272605 United States 11/08/2009 07:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Many did not! [link to wiki.answers.com] The ones who had a good chance of survival were people in the west and midwest who had a ranch or farm with stock, chickens, cows, goats, pigs etc. My dad said during those years, "we ate alot of meat, and not much else", but they lived. If we go into a full out deprssion like the 30's, expect milions more deaths, because most people rely on resturants, and markets to live day to day. They will become the new SKINNIES. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 805989 United Kingdom 11/08/2009 07:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They bartered for goods when possible. They wasted NOTHING! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 543014 United States 11/08/2009 07:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they ate spam...lots and lots of spam! Oh, and stuff from their own gardens. Nobody has gardens anymore. Never mind chickens, pigs .....turkey. In short weve lost a lot of self dependence over the last 50 years. But they also had a lot more places to hunt, and usually families were bigger so there was more help when needed. Its a lot different now. Stock up on tuna and spam! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 879972 United States 02/01/2010 06:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they worked hard and it sucked. Talk to your grandparents for five minutes. (or great grandparents) They will have stories Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162THEIR DEAD god youre dumb. some people dont have grandparents or great grandparents to talk to. ugh loser |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 739044 United States 02/01/2010 09:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They dug graves and ditches for 50 cents a day, or did any kind of work they could find. They ate biscuits and gravy for their one meal a day. They did what they had to do and they learned not to waste anything when the Depression was over. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 739044I just saw that I posted this a long time ago. It's like the post I just did. I saw it and thought OMG this person wrote the same thing, I must have a relative on here! God, I'm dumb! LOL |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 867576 United States 02/01/2010 09:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They had these things called "trees" back then. Every year, produce, like what you get at the grocery store, miraculously appeared on the trees. And I read someplace that when they cut open some animals, inside, there was meat, in big chunks, like at the grocery store, but without price stickers attached. Then there were these things called chickens. They would sit down in a magic box, and the next day, eggs were there, to eat, like from the grocery store. There were these places called boarding houses, where you could rent a room, sometimes in exchange for work. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 681051 United States 02/01/2010 10:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's what my relatives did- dug ditches for $5.00 a day until he got a job. They ate a lot of homemade biscuits and gravy, raised chickens and did without. People who went through the Depression were deeply affected by it. They never took anything for granted after that. They continued to be frugal all their lives usually and never wasted anything especially food. A steady job was kept for life. They also paid their bills on time and didn't trust credit. It used to be a matter of honor to not owe money and that was more important than having a lot of stuff to impress people with. If you couldn't afford it, you didn't buy it. That's what they learned from the Depression. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 739044yep, this is just like my mom and grandma told it...they taught us to appreciate what we got and to never waste food or anything for that matter... waste not, want not is a good motto to live by my mom was a young girl in the south and she said that they never had shoes in the summer, they had to go barefoot, they would get one pair a year when school started or a hand me down pair from an older sibling... even i did not get a new pair until they had holes in them, no joke, and i am a baby boomer, we did not have all the welfare programs of today in the 50's and 60's |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 824029 United States 02/02/2010 01:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My family are all hoarders. I'm not as bad but I do have the tendancy. I have racks and racks of clothes. I gave some away to charity and my mother had a fit! It took me years to finally say...they needed to go. We have junk drawers. Filled with trash twist ties, rubberbands, oddities but we refuse to throw them away. I mentally have to clean house every Spring to prevent becoming a chronic hoarder. You know those shows that help people declutter homes. Many are children of depression children. My mom doesn't feel comfortable unless she has things all around her. A clean and bare house makes her panic. We tease her about being depressionistically frugal. She also carries everything but the kitchen sink in her purse. We call her the bag lady. But, she teases right back and says, "but whenever you need something...I have it!" My Mom, her brother, and my Grandmother are like that. Me not as much but I can't lie--it's been ingrained. My sisters both had the hoarding tendency too. |
anonymous User ID: 880194 United States 02/02/2010 03:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they ate spam...lots and lots of spam! Oh, and stuff from their own gardens. Nobody has gardens anymore. Never mind chickens, pigs .....turkey. In short weve lost a lot of self dependence over the last 50 years. But they also had a lot more places to hunt, and usually families were bigger so there was more help when needed. Its a lot different now. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 543014Stock up on tuna and spam! corn meal gravy for breakfaaast lunch dinner.. most grew gardens and meatless meals were common. fried tators and gravy . for dinner. some city folks shared tiny sleeping rooms or tiny efficency apts on shifts. 8 am to 8 pm or 8 pm to 8 am. night shift person teamed with day shift people to make that arrangement work out.. pack a lunch . folks had only 4 or so outfits ..so they washed the clothes by hand in sink and wring them out real good and hung them up to dry, in tiny apts and then startched them and iron them cloths . when people had holes in thier shoes they put card board in them to continue to wear them longer if they could not afford new soles.. folks reheeled thier shoes and polished thier shoes to keep em looking new.. no one wasted anything scrap paper was saved to use the reverse side later for notes etc or homework for kids.. |
new lady on block User ID: 896607 United States 02/20/2010 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The 'Great Depression' was a period in United States History when business was poor and many people were out of work. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 388218The Great Depression began in October 1929, when the stock market in the United States dropped rapidly. Thousands of investors lost large sums of money and many were wiped out, lost everything. The 'crash' led us into the Great Depression. The ensuing period ranked as the longest and worst period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times. Banks, stores, and factories were closed and left millions of Americans jobless, homeless, and penniless. Many people came to depend on the government or charity to provide them with food. The Depression became a worldwide business slump of the 1930's that affected almost all nations. It led to a sharp decrease in world trade as each country tried to protect their own industries and products by raising tariffs on imported goods. Some nations changed their leader and their type of government. In Germany, poor economic conditions led to the rise to power of the dictator Adolf Hitler. The Japanese invaded China, developing industries and mines in Manchuria. Japan claimed this economic growth would relieve the depression. This militarism of the Germans and Japanese eventually led to World War II (1939-1945). In the United States, President Herbert Hoover held office when the Great Depression began. The economy continued to slump almost every month. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President in 1932. Roosevelt's 'new deal' reforms gave the government more power and helped ease the depression. The Great Depression ended as nations increased their production of war materials at the start of World War II. This increased production provided jobs and put large amounts of money back into circulation. WW3 will not be the answer to this depression!!! |
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Yes it will be different User ID: 797134 United States 02/21/2010 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A very large percentage of the population is physically ill and requires significant daily medication or medical intervention to survive.. Also a very large part of the population is mentally unstable and requires, significant amounts of psychotropic medication to survive, or large amounts of alcohol and drugs... American houses the worlds largest population of prison inmates, organized crime families, gangs, mafiosa, and criminal organizations... Unlike the first depression, the enviornment is degraded to large degree, water supplies are contaminiated, game including fish populations are reduced and are infected with prion disease.. Large population centers in most major cities have enclaves of large populations of foreign nationals that do not speak English and whose primary allegience is to their country of origin. American's have access to large amounts of personal firearms, and amunition.. There will be bread lines, drug lines, gas rationing, water and power rationing... THis depression will make the last one look like a warm up... nationally 30% of all blue collar workers are already unemployed... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 739044 United States 02/21/2010 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My family are all hoarders. I'm not as bad but I do have the tendancy. I have racks and racks of clothes. I gave some away to charity and my mother had a fit! It took me years to finally say...they needed to go. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 824029We have junk drawers. Filled with trash twist ties, rubberbands, oddities but we refuse to throw them away. I mentally have to clean house every Spring to prevent becoming a chronic hoarder. You know those shows that help people declutter homes. Many are children of depression children. My mom doesn't feel comfortable unless she has things all around her. A clean and bare house makes her panic. We tease her about being depressionistically frugal. She also carries everything but the kitchen sink in her purse. We call her the bag lady. But, she teases right back and says, "but whenever you need something...I have it!" My Mom, her brother, and my Grandmother are like that. Me not as much but I can't lie--it's been ingrained. My sisters both had the hoarding tendency too. I think a lot of people were affected psychologically by the Depression. People reacted differently. I know some people who became hoarders, some stayed very frugal to the point of being cheap and other people would go overboard on things like buying food. My relatives who went through the Depression always spent a lot on groceries once they had money again because the worst part to them had been going without food. Others would still save little scraps of food and never throw anything away. |
fillantpre User ID: 896756 United States 02/22/2010 05:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ANY IDEAS HOW PEOPLE DID IT ? WHERE DID THEY LIVE WHAT DID THEY EAT???HOW THEY MADE IT? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 328162they would forage things like wild asparagus, plentiful around here in the spring........and there is all SORTS OF WILD FOOD.........mushrooms, berries, all sorts of things.......to make store bought food go farther......... DANDELION GREENS ARE THE MOST NUTRITIOUS GREEN ON THE PLANET and most people kill them with weed killer........I eat them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 919115 United States 03/18/2010 09:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've wondered that also. I guess there were some jobs. Quoting: I dunno 115My grandfather worked on the railroad and people would come by their house asking if they could work for a meal. My grand parents never turned anyone away. They had them do small jobs around the house and then my grandparents would sit down with them and give them a good meal. i feel your pain |