You know, I thought about that and you are absolutely correct.
During the Great Depression people often had no recourse to unemployment except charity, soup kitchens and moving to California (like in the Grapes of Wrath). Still, the media of the day told them Roosevelt was fixing things, making them better and really cared for them! It still took a World War to set things right and America lucked out by being the only unscathed power after it was over.
Fast forward to today and instead of charity we have big government doing it all. It’s not necessary to stand in line, beg or move. You get a credit card (EBT), free cell phone, housing paid for, unemployment check for two years, and welfare or easy social security disability after that. And, of course, the driveby media has never been so partisan and promoting of one political party in general and one president in particular.
Is it any wonder who people will vote for?
(Hint: Not the guy who says no. Let’s get back to hard work and fix things. Especially when his message gets spit on and distorted by the driveby’s)
But as you say, the bill is going to come due. Like the grasshopper fiddling while the ants work, winter will come.
We have actually ensured our own demise in this past election. JMHO.
God's hand played a big part in that. Luck, meh, not so much.
Fast forward to today, we are mightily trying God's patience 24/7. I think we're on the edge. NOT a good place to be.
I just finished reading Alas Babylon! while remembering what my world was like in 1959. MAD was a distinct daily threat, and the fear of nuclear strike from the USSR was very real!
But at the same time people worked. There was no Great Society to cater to the lazy. Our country’s future is definitely as or more precarious today than it was fifty years ago.
PS: Hoover and Depression will always be connected in the majority of people’s minds. Roosevelt, and now Obama, will never be blamed for doing things that extended a financial crash.
Bush will ALWAYS be blamed. Truth is what the media says it is.