[ClearCase_guy]

About the only thing I'm sure of these days is that there are no quick solutions.

Back in the Great Depression, a lot of people understood how to grow food, make clothes, fix things, or do manual labor. Rough times, but people got by. And, let's face it, life expectancy (emphasis on "expectancy") was short. If you could "get by" until age 50 or 55, then you did OK and people didn't make a big deal out of it when you keeled over.

Today? So many people cannot produce food, makes clothes, or fix anything. And just about everyone feels they are above manual labor. And everyone expects (there's that word again) to live to be 75, while vacationing at their beach house and taking the occasional trip to Europe.

People want to act like it's 1998, but it's really 1933. We are not prepared. I think when it really hits home, a lot of heads will explode -- "What do you mean? I thought we had green shoots!"

[Max in Utah]

Back in the Great Depression, a lot of people understood how to grow food, make clothes, fix things, or do manual labor.

True, most people were less specialized and citified than now. And there were still plenty of family farms in those days, many people had relatives with land that could feed an extended family if necessary.

[ex-snook]

People want to act like it’s 1998, but it’s really 1933.

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Then FDR started the WPA to hire older people and the CCC for the younger folks. But today there is work. Look at what you buy. It is work elsewhere. This is work that used to be here. Bring it back. Why isn’t it done? Campaign contributors owns both parties. Perot, who heard the job sucking sound, would be elected today. The alternative to private business not hiring people, is that the government will. Some call that socialism, some call it work.