Posted on 02/15/2009 6:41:27 PM PST by NCjim
About that 75%:
” In that year, a quarter of the nation’s families did not have a single employed wage earner. Even those fortunate enough to have jobs suffered drastic pay cuts and reductions in hours. Only one company in ten failed to cut pay, and in 1932, three-quarters of all workers were on part-time schedules, averaging just 60 percent of the normal work week. “
From - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm
I had looked up this very issue yesterday. Kinda puts a whole new spin on it.
I saw one I really wanted and hubby was going to get for me but the seller didn’t take credit cards. :(
It was a pre-ban mini 14
Let them take to the streets.
>> loon-a-ticks (get it?? badda-boom)
I get it.
I suppose you think that’s funny, you species-ist.
That is exactly what I said to Dh about the story being used over and over by Dems. Anytime the police or fire dept are hiring there is always a line. Everybody grows up wanting to be either or so naturally when they hire there is a line, DUH!
I keep holding on to the fact that my Grand parents meet during the depression where my Dh works now. :) I hope the place makes it through these times too.
That is exactly what I said to Dh about the story being used over and over by Dems. Anytime the police or fire dept are hiring there is always a line. Everybody grows up wanting to be either or so naturally when they hire there is a line, DUH!
I keep holding on to the fact that my Grand parents meet during the depression where my Dh works now. :) I hope the place makes it through these times too.
I agree but the dems are in charge right now and wouldn’t do that.
The thing that will get bad is if the government gets to where they can’t send the welfare checks. I’m serious about this one. There are parts of New Orleans where no one’s held a job for five generations. The only industries are welfare, drugs and burglary. The cities that depend on welfare will burn if those checks dry up.
That is about spot on with what I was thinking.
The last such disconnect was during Clinton's impeachment.
His personal approval rating was south of 30%. But his job approval rating remained above 60%.
I've no idea why, either.
Which is why they'll print the money to write the checks.
The MSM won’t turn on ANY Democrat; they will only turn on a Republican. We watched as Clinton humiliated us and flaunted the law and his power. The MSM exalted him to the level of somethin’ he wasn’t, blithely reporting his behavior and then sublimating it as something admirable. It is a joke that Hillary has advanced like she has given that she is the antithesis of what feminists claim to admire. If Obama does not deliver lots and lots of freebies to his base, his base will eventually get real mad and turn. However, he WILL deliver lots and lots of freebies to his base. Ain’t that grand?
“There are parts of New Orleans where ....The only industries are welfare, drugs and burglary.”
...you just described the New Orleans Police Department.
You aren’t kidding. I lived there. Deal with NO PD and you want to find a mugger to report them to. I was there in 1978 when NOPD went on strike during Mardi Gras. THE CRIME RATE WENT DOWN!!! PD went on strike and the crime rate went down.
It's mindboggling to see what has happened to us in just 3 short weeks. We have no counterbalance - it's a 1-party system...and with that kind of complete control, he'll destroy the nation inside of 5 years.
No one in my house votes for Democrats, not even the one Democrat or DINO! He voted for Bush then McCain like the rest of us! He’s elderly, and a retired veteran!
1000 .223 shells on backorder for months from them, they finally just canceled my order Friday.
The point is that things will not get that bad until after the bulk of the asset devaluations are complete.
Give it until 2011-2012 before things get crazy enough to warrant stockpiling.
You should be able to buy anything you want for half the price by this fall.
This is not to say you can’t make short term profits on this frenzy over the next couple of months by trading gold, gold stocks or selling guns and ammo to the paranoids.
7) Enact Congressional term limits;
8) Repeal the minimum-wage laws;
9) Build the @#$&*()@#$ southern border wall;
10) Jail the heads of all companies that hire illegals;
11) Rescind all "green" industrial subsidies;
12) Start drilling offshore, working the oil sands, and building nuclear power plants; and
13) Deport -- I don't give a rat's where to -- all second-through-nth-generation welfare recipients.
Then we can get around to the really fun stuff, like repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
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