Reply #71: Yes, many people with jobs in the depression pretended there wasn't one - [View All]

[haele]

But they were also secretly terrified that they might end up like the men in the soup lines, so they aggressively clung to what little they had and kept talking about those lazy bums that needed to be run out of town, or should be in jail because those men "were obviously drunks who wouldn't" go out and get a job like they did.
My father's grandfather was a hypocritical trickle-down proponent and would have loved Reagan. He hated Roosevelt, even though my g-grandfather's business directly benefited from Roosevelt's policies.
After all, who would regularly go to a barber for a shave and haircut - no matter how "good" the barber was - with no money or job prospects? Oh, and he really did love his social security...

Haele