A Little History of the Great Depression

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shfgfg of HI 1:11PM March 06, 2009

fucc all u white b..itches honkeyyys

fuh kweww of NJ 1:13PM February 26, 2009

Mr. Higgs is correct, "Are other people's problems more important than our own?" ...we like to help but ????

denise of MA 8:35PM February 23, 2009

As I see it we got too involed in other peoples problems while our own country went down hill-We can not fund what we are now doing-If our President can pull us out of this mess we may be a nation again

John Higgs of TX 9:19PM February 19, 2009

The Great Depression occured when the US was still largely a farm based economy. Even though people faced very difficult times, many could retreat to the family farm and wait out the Depression. That option does not exist today. Our economy is much more sophisticated and inter-connected. If our economy continues to slide into a depression equal to the Great Depression, I fear the consequences to the American people will be much more acute than during the Great Depression.
I hope I am wrong.

Jim Bower of WA 12:55PM February 19, 2009

Money was scarce but living on a farm we never lacked for essential food. We knew how to do with what we had. We had a thirteen room house and at times invited other families and individuals to live with us in our 13 room dwelling. Tramps, as we called them, came to our door asking for food which we would supply. Clothing was used until worn out or out grownn. We grew our own food for the most part.We remember those years as a good experience.

Paul Neff of PA 9:30PM February 18, 2009

In "A Little history", "Little" is the operative word.
After a comment about 1 year of unemployment, an opinion about a recession and a glorified reference to a book by Amity Shlaes, you expect your readers to have enough "hard facts" to comprehend the efforts to resolve the biggest financial crisis in U.S. history.
Hopefully our Congressmen are not making decisions based on such a simplistic view of history.

BillInSTL of MO 8:24PM February 18, 2009

The depression was a sad and difficult time for me and my family but it was a clean and more or less wholesome period,to day we have an enormous amount of wealth but less sharing and too many business's operating in restraint of trade.....which is bad for everybody all over the world....and the chief cause of war in the Middle East and elsewhere....Cordially...

Steve Roisman of CA 1:45PM February 18, 2009

The depression was a sad and difficult time for me and my family but it was a clean and more or less wholesome period,to day we have an enormous amount of wealth but less sharing and too many business's operating in restraint of trade.....which is bad for everybody all over the world....and the chief cause of war in the Middle East and elsewhere....Cordially...

Steve Roisman of CA 1:45PM February 18, 2009

During the Depression the "fabric" of America was still strong and resilient. "Victimhood" hadn't yet been invented by trial lawyers and social engineers. We had a strong industrial base - not stunted and crippled by the "out-sourcing" of jobs and factories, or buried under dogmatic environmental regulation and legacy entitlements. But, I think, most importantly we had a united will as Americans. We had not yet fractured ourselves into a fragile mosaic of "cultural diversity" and special interest groups. It was plainly another time and we were a different people.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 11:44AM February 18, 2009