Fortunately, we still said the pledge of allegiance every morning, had Christmas programs with manger scenes and Christmas carols. We had paper and metal drives, bought stamps to help the war (WWII) effort. The country came together inspite of the depression, and together we did it!
The people had to do without butter, beef, gasoline, rubber, stockings (that leg paint was awful) metal products. Every household had rationing books. And everyonem had vegetable gardens. (Those carrots tasted so good warm from the earth!) America was still America.
Maybe we need another good depression!
Uh, no. I prefer freedom to some quaint "national unity." I don't want to return to rationing and an 85% marginal tax rate.
“The people had to do without butter, beef, gasoline, rubber, stockings (that leg paint was awful) metal products. Every household had rationing books. And everyonem had vegetable gardens. (Those carrots tasted so good warm from the earth!) America was still America.
Maybe we need another good depression!”
This country needs a wake up call. Throwing $700 billion at the big boys didn’t do it.
BTW, I have some of those ration stamps from ww2...my mother saved everything!
I believe a few on here will not understand your depression remark. Today’s youth provides the perfect example of those whose conveniences have them judging life from a very high minimum level. If they can’t live life in comfort with unseen slaves tending to their every need, life ain’t worth living!
They have never known hunger; instead they know obesity and childhood diabetes. They do not know earned advancement; instead they know quotas, affirmative action, discrimination and racism that only whites can practice. They do not know character and virtue; instead they know what clothes, what car and what language to use to get attention, and they know what body parts to use to gain financial advantage over others.
Virtue has been minimized in out society; it has been replaced by the pragmatism that powers Obama’s cult followers.
When government accounts for its finances from its first penny, we will have a better government. When a person counts their blessings with their first breath, we will have better persons. That’s what a depression will bring to all of us.
No! The very FIRST thing we need to do is make the Democrat party the 21st century Whig party and we can begin the process in a little under a month!
We ought to throw them out of office in wholesale lots!