Reply #5: I think we are in a 2009/2010/2011 etc Depression. [View All]

[dixiegrrrrl]

If there are 40 million people on food stamps, things are bad.
Do you know how poor you have to be to qualify for food stamps? VERY poor.

A lot more people had land and could grow/ hunt some food in the 30's.
I remember my grandmother talking about "porch rabbit" some people had to cook,
a term she never explained and I had to look it up.

People could use horses or mules to travel to town.
Today if people have no cars they find it hard to find decent stores.

One of the reasons Roosevelt created Soc. Sec. was because so many older people had NO income during the depression, and if they had no family, they were goners.

Let that be a lesson to all of you under 55.