Posted on 03/16/2023 3:52:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
1929: The biggest economic crisis of the 20th century brought an abrupt end to the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties. Driven from their land, the farmers of the Great Plains were forced to abandon everything they had. They became migrants in their own country, and were treated as such by the vast Californian estates. They became the symbol of an America confronted by its own reality.
Built on the work of the iconic photographers of the Great Depression - Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein - this full archive documentary analyzes the consequences of the economic collapse in the United States and provides a unique take on the failure of the American model.
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The big-short is MUCH worse now but now we have computers to calculate the interest payments out to infinity.
bkmk
Required reading on the subject - The Forgotten Man, by Amity Schlaes.
The Forgotten Man is the taxpayer who wasn’t getting any of the government largesse, but was paying for it.
My Grandpa moved to Detroit in 1930 - for a Job. He retired 41 years later from the Detroit Brass Company.
Weird times the Depression.
I have read it and highly recommend it--along with all of her books.
Forgotten Man--Joan Blondell with the Warner-Vitaphone Orchestra (1933)
I heard of it but didn’t read it. I should.
Have Great Society by her, about the total failure of “affordable housing” and other welfare perks for being lazy but a valued Dem voting minority (starting mainly in late 1964). Billions a year wasted.
Al Franken: I am one of many people who grew up in a family coping with the depression.
Their mother’s.
Sorry I posted this. It’s a paean to Roosevelt.
The cause of hoarding
In the 1930s, my kin had a ranch on the High Plains in NE New Mexico, Very close to the pivot point of the Dust Bowl. They stayed and toughed it out.
Finally starved out in 1952. I remember those tough years but they were happy times for us kids.
bkmk
I should ad, that was my DAD’s kin in New Mexico. Mom’s kin were on a tobacco farm in Tennessee. They did OK for those hard times. Poor as church mice but never had to take government commodities. Never.
My uncle in Tennessee told us of the first and only time he voted. He was 18 years old and voting age was 21. While working as a carpenter on a house the sheriff came by and called all the boys over and said...
“You boys going to go vote ain’t you!” They all looked at each other and shook their heads “yes” even though they were underage.
Sheriff: “Well lets go vote right now!” and he loaded them into the car.
At the polls the workers asked the sheriff if these boys were old enough to vote.
Sheriff: “HELL YES they are old enough to vote, and they are going to VOTE FOR FDR aren’t you boys!”
They shook their heads “yes” and actually got to vote! It was the only time he ever voted in his life.
Interesting addendum to this. The sheriff later picked up a car load of Blacks and when they got to the polls he had them drunk as skunks, and even they got to vote, “for FDR!”
With the handjob Biden in the White House, history may repeat itself. It’s like putting a chimpanzee at the controls of a 747.
He’s not in control. He’s the Bully Puppet, and the people really in control are malicious, America-hating monsters.
The government was manipulating the narrative even then... an economic depression was not as bad as a recession, so to avoid bad press and to keep the people sheople the called it a depression. When it became obvious that it was a very bad recession, Great Depression became its moniker.
My parents lived through the Great Depression and had many stories of hardships. In the Great Plains prolonged drought and bad farming practices lead to dust storms that my Dad recounted were so severe that the street lights came on at noon. My mother told of grasshopper plagues stripping what her family could grow in their garden and even eating holes in clothes drying on the clothesline. Mother vidvidly remembered the summer of 1934 when daylime temperatures were over 120 degrees and dropping at night to almost 100. Tough times on top of the financial hardships.
Great photo accompaniment to one of Guthrie’s incomparable ballads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk
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