[Kartographer]

The difference is that during the “Great Depression” a good number of people still grew their own food and secondly you didn’t have the ‘entitlement’ class that you have now. Those to things alone would make a second “Great Depression” nothing like you Grandma’s “Great Depression”.

[blam]

"The difference is that during the “Great Depression” a good number of people still grew their own food and secondly you didn’t have the ‘entitlement’ class that you have now."

So true. More people were farmers during the Great Depression...my parents and their parents were all farmers. My grandfather (mom's dad) went to prison for 'moonshining' during the depression.