We already have massive food lines. They are just invisible. It is all the cards, food stamp type stuff etc. used at the checkout line. It could get a LOT worse.
I am optimistic that the economy will not get a lot worse because Franklin D. Roosevelt is dead and Trump is president.
“We already have massive food lines. They are just invisible. It is all the cards, food stamp type stuff etc. used at the checkout line. It could get a LOT worse.”
We probably have 30 million illegals in this country, the number of H1Bs is probably over 3 million and no telling how many visa overstays we have. We’re feeding too many foreigners that bear us no goodwill.
EBT is also available for Walmart curbside pick up.
I saw the sign, on the milk cases, when I was there, a few months ago.
This was before any COVID scare....and, they were afforded the luxury of not having to get up off of their car’s seat, to go inside and shop for their free stuff.
We already had the Obama Depression - when well over 25% of People who wanted to work were “unemployed” (not just ‘on unemployment’, a statistic for which they are no longer counted for after their ~99 weeks are up).
The Great Depression was brutal. But it would have been even worse had it not been for the fact that the US was still very much an agricultural country. Don't dig up numbers shsowing the GP was not that dependent on agriculture. It may or may not have been.
Regardless of the numbers, a great many people, even though they had left the farm for work in industry, had kin still on the farm and they could go back to the farm for food and a warm place to sleep.
Ask me how I know. I am old enough to remember it well.
In the coming depression, many of the family farms are gone. Either grown up in timber or grazing land and very few city dwellers have kinfolk on the farm to take them in and feed them.
I hope all who live in the country have a means to protect themselves from what is coming.....unless we end this madness.
I drove past a local food bank heavy truck on the road yesterday. Immaculate truck and brand spanking new. If they have that kind of dough to spend on a truck they better be delivering the goods.