“Hey troll, go back to your mommie’s basement”
A little difficult since I am a grandmother, my own mother having been dead seventeen years and did not have a basement.
The pictures are valuable history of the depression years, but then I read the following commentary following one of the photos.
“While President Barack Obama has often been criticized for his handling of the economy and the unemployment crisis, which continues to threaten his re-election prospects, the situation is far less bleak that the one President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced when he was elected in 1932.”
A grandmother, you should certainly know that the ‘debt’ whatever it was per person (you know, those stranded by the roadside in makeshift shacks, tents, and hovels) was infinitely smaller than the potential debt that this Obama government is shackling OUR children and grandchildren with.
IF you couple an insurmountable per capita debt with a vast portion of this country’s citizenry already totally dependent on government largesse and unwilling to diminish their ill-gotten booty one iota, you have an absolute catastrophe on the horizon. You might call it propaganda and ‘their’ choice, I know better, and I call it real poverty. You should know better.
“While President Barack Obama has often been criticized for his handling of the economy and the unemployment crisis, which continues to threaten his re-election prospects, the situation is far less bleak that the one President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced when he was elected in 1932.”
I’m not so sure thats true. In 1932 80% of folks lived on the farm and only 20% lived in the city. Its just the opposite now. When the big crash comes people won’t be able to grow their own food like they did back then.
Back then there were no credit cards so people did not have the debt people have now and most people rented their homes as opposed to owning and carrying a big mortgage. Subsistence was actually easier then than it is now. People were not as dependent on electricity and electronics as we are now either.
Most of these photos are flat out propaganda for FDR’s socialist policies. The photographers were sent out by government agencies or the NYT with the express goal of making things look bad. Many of them are posed for deception or don’t really represent what they are purported to show.
This has been well documented, for example here:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/
****the situation is far less bleak that the one President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced when he was elected in 1932.”****
I can’t help but think FDR got elected only because he promised to end prohibition.