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I know this, the folks who lived in the era of the Great Depression had many advantages over us today, as for being self-sufficient.

Their only source of food wasn't a grocery store. In the countryside many people still had horses and buggies. Most had their own water supply.

Trade was an acceptable form of commerce because many folks had no money. And speaking of commerce, it did not depend upon the availability of the Internet, or even the electrical grid. America manufactured what it needed back then, unlike today. And the dollar was backed by gold.

If something happens to destroy the value of the dollar, the electrical grid, the Internet, or the just-in-time supply chain, can you imagine the chaos which would ensue if something happens to any one of those?!

I don't think many want to imagine such. Most today are comfortable with their head in the sand and become upset at any suggestion to examine their surroundings.

If what we have in place today, was in place then, America would have been destroyed. The independent nature of the people of that time is what saved America then and allowed it to win a world war only a short decade later.

We are now far removed from that kind of independence.

And MORE people lived in BIG cities ( actually over a million MORE people lived in NYC, in the 193os than live there today! ) who couldn't grow their own food; not to mention the fact that the weather in the middle of the nation was hit by dust storms and heat, and all manner of problems, which means that their crops...FAILED,animals STARVED, and they had NO food at all to eat!

I don't know how old you are, but you do NOT know what you're talking about at all!

"...off the grid"? GOOD LORD...many people had NO electricity at all! Have you never heard of the TVA? And you can't miss ( the net, air conditioning, nor a flush poddy )that you NEVER had!

The ONLY reason that "...America would be destroyed, if we had to go through that today", is because of the spoiled, cozzetted, and coddled SNOWFLAKES that are around today!