we did a school project on the great depression in reading which i don't understand because it's not reading but thank you this got me a good grade with all the stuff it shows.
BANK RUN -TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO WEST INDIES, REPUBLIC BANK, ROYAL BANK, FIRST CITIZEN BANK and SCOTIABANK thousand of customers simultaneously withdraw all their funds, because they believe that the banks might go into bankruptcy, and for fear of the bank becoming insolvent and that they the customer, will lose all their money.people are putting their money in smaller credit union banks or keeping it at home.
Outstanding soundtrack. People like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans commissioned by the FSA to document the people of rural depression era USA and bring us iconic images that still resonate today.
And to add, I don't think we'll ever have a depression as bad as the 1930s. We can still buy things, we still have jobs, we can pay for central heating when we save enough etc. In the 1930s people lost their houses and especially during the war. All the documentaries about the 1930s were set around grey skies. So you should be bloody grateful that for one, our economy has greatly improved over the years and two, child labour and child abuse are forbidden these days.
Anyone who wishes to live in the 1930s, in the era of depression must be mentally retarded. My grandparents don't ever want to see the 1930s again. Ever. You don't know how lucky we are now. Excluding the internet and mobile phones, we have what we want now and live in nice houses with great insulation and we have higher salaries and earn more in luxury which people in the 1930s could never have. The 1950s and 1960s seemed great times but the 1930s are a no no. Hence the name "Great Depression"
Take the mortgage crisis from 3 years ago, the bank failures and the current 9% unemployment rate and the 40% drop in the stock market. Now double all that and that still doesn't tell the whole story about how bad the depression was in 32 and 33.
this suffering was caused by unregulated capitalism, profiteering and speculation, the same that brought us our current crisis. it wasn't caused by socialism, or too much government, or too much spending, or too much debt. but it was government spending on infrastructure and public works putting people to work and regulation of the "fat cats" on wall street that got us out of it. there followed 30 years of great prosperity, until ronald reagan's election began the decline of the last 30 years.
@mkmcfr Your right I agree. As I have said the samething, to others. And very true, about Reagan, this was the start. I was in HS during during the days of Reagan. And I have been watching the politics and economics of this country and world since those days. As they say history tends to repeat itself. And alot of people do not pay attention to whats going on. The Republicans love the socialism label on Liberals. And many of their supporters don't know what socialism is.
Your right, then the knew how to eek out food seeds roots to eat from anywhere when desperate, today if the freezers-Cupboards are empty or Mc Donalds was closed half of us would STARVE!
@Licmycat Wall Street will not crash. If it gets to the point that it could they will stop trading. Because of the safety nets that placed after the last great depression, and of course that is when FDIC came about also.
@Licmycat Wall Street will not crash. If it gets to the point that it could they will stop trading. Because of the safety nets that were placed after the last great depression, and of course that is when FDIC came about also.
@MegaELECTRICEYE Would you like it to crash? And, I have to ask; would you have to sell apple to live thru the depression if so? I'm very curious what you think; I like to make things happen that make people happy...especially for our NATION.
@Licmycat No I would not want wall street to crash, and I don't believe that I gave that indication thats what I want. In a depression you will sell do anything to get money or you don't eat. Well we the people with half a brain. Would like to do anything to make people happy especially for our Nation, and the world. The last great Depression of 1929 and the next one we could face soon. AND NO I DON'T Want another one. Both had worldwide economic impacts.
@MegaELECTRICEYE Really? Why do u say that? They are already destroying our nation with their fraud, thievery, and chicanery. What difference would it make? What time do you have dinner? If it crashes, I'll be there....every nite!
@Licmycat Not sure what your asking me???? Yes I understand they are destroying this country. I've been watching this for the pass 30 yrs. If or when we have another economic depression you will see the difference. And we may wish we could eat dinner forget the time. If it crashes you mean when it crashes. I'll be there...every night! And where is there? You lost me on that one.
@Licmycat Explain what you mean what ye sowed ye shall reap. Or did you read what I posted?? I see the future very well and I have seen where we have come from in the last 30 yrs. And I don't like what I see, not sure how much clearer I can make that to you.
Back then, a man took great pride in his work. Many the man on the production line would always work knowing full well it brough home the food and gifts for the kids. Too often the rich didn't care and so that's how unions got in. However, now the unions aren't screwing the rich, they're going after the people who they should be helping, but don't
The Federal State/Bank Embezzlement 63 percent inflation of the money supply during the 1920s caused the economic contraction of 1929; Hoover's criminal socialist policies extended it 3+ years; FDR's criminal socialist policies extended it for 11 years; and Truman's criminal socialist policies extended it until 1947.
Yes we have more blacks and other races working in America but the depression still continue for many blacks in this country. Never in history have i seen the GOVERNMENT has a people so control and yet you ship simple jobs overseas to countries that don't like America. Yes am speaking about America sending jobs and billions of dollars to countries so as to relax the thought of hating us. How can anyone in their right mind thinks its ok for your enemy to make everything we eat and use.
People today would be more concerned about what their neighbors thought If the Superduty or the Beemer got repoed, rather than if their kids ate. Plus back then you couldn't go down to the welfare office and pick up your free government handout. Thank God for welfare...cause poor people deserve 50" flatscreens too with 250 channels of highdef
Klaaaan I was just going to say what you said. They were poorer than we can ever imagine. But the difference now is you can be left poor and in terrible debt with credit cards! Least their slates were wiped clean and they could start again. Debts will follow and haunt you till your death. My advice is dont get into debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what you cant afford you dont have, full stop! The old ones knew this. I unfortunatly fell in to the have today, pay tomorrow. What a fool I was.
I don't understand why, but when I saw this video I started to break down and tears came to my eyes. Never had that happen before, seeing a video here. Thanks for putting it up.
difference now is people will be suffering..stitting in a Lexus or wearing expensive clothes.. but broke..I pass the homeless on my way to work wearing better shoes then me...people today don't know how bad it can be..yet.
My family came to the San Joaquin Valley in CA, during the depression from the mid west just like thousands of other families."White trash' and "Okies" they were called,They worked picking friut and were poor and homeless.I think young kids there today have no idea what transpired in their families history.Sad!
@LolitaPunkRose Actually, that really does touch on something that worries me. Everything is in danger of becoming too cheap, including products and the labor that went into making them. The same thing applies to services. For example, Walmart prices are low -- but so are the wages they pay. Things are being done on the internet for free (such as open source code) that used to command high wages. And there are lots of other examples. It worries me.
What scares me most is not inflation, but deflation. That's what really ruined people in the Great Depression. Money just seemed to vanish, as people withdrew their money and hoarded it as long as they could. Some people had cash and hoarded it, but of course if they were unemployed, their money vanished over time. People delayed servicing their cars, and many drove them until the cars simply defied repair. Busnesses failed because no one could or would buy anything. It was like the Dark Ages.
Everyone I know is buying new cars and boats. Got lots of money in the bank. Couple vacation homes. Don't quite understand why all this depression talk........
@aspenmogul cause your obviosly one of the spoiled ignorant kids who think well if it it isent happening to me it aint happenin at all. Just realize one thing please a very small percent of people are well off and you are a good example of why people dont like wealthy people.
I see alot of parent with child and family photos that have a "caring" in them unlike today. The youngers of today will have a fit "eat or text" 'eat or computor" that one will get me. Try not to fixate on the bad be ready no debt is the key
Your right.If we have a Depression like the one after the Civil War(most people don't realize it was worse than the one in the 30's),alot of people WON'T survive..
@influenza99 Imagine it: no brand new car with automatic (if you were lucky enough to have a car that ran); no hot showers; no prepared foods, if you can get food; no air conditioning; how do you wash clothes without a washing machine/driver; wash the dishes by hand?! No money to buy food. No money to buy clothes; barely enough money to live in a shack. .... We'd never survive.
@BRad585 Actually, I think the opposite; people of today wouldn't last a day back there. Except for some people in their 80s, who grew up in it. No tv, no cds, no web, no electric toys. NO CELL PHONES, NO TEXT MESSAGING. I think most under 30 would shrivel up in an hour or so.
@BRad585 Did you ever see the (original) Twilight Zone episode about the man who is leading a failing wagon train across the Great Basin and a modern highway is there? He goes to a cafe in the desert, looking for water and help for his sick son. You have a point, of course, but the majority of people today have lost touch with that part of themselves that can cope. Losing is more traumatic than winning. Interesting ideas anyway.
@BRad585 They'd find people that still remember them. There's bluegrass festivals everywhere. Maybe in more remote places like towns in West Virginia, etc. I had a girlfriend when I was 19 (1971) who's parents were from OK during the Dust Bowl. It's not that remote. To contrast, I knew some wealthy people who lost their wealth and they told me that it was harder losing their luxuries. People committed suicide when they lost their riches back then, but the Okies survived.
My Grandmother is still alive today at age 96. She remembers the Great Depression from beginning to end. When the banks were closing a friend told my grandmother and grandfather that their bank was getting ready to close. Grandmother and Grandfather went to the bank and withdrew their savings out. Soon after that the bank closed their doors. Grandmother told me that she hid the money behind a pictureframe in their house. nice to know that not everyone lost their savings!!
What was the 1st song? Just great singing! The pictures are sad and haunting. My mom was in the depression and did come to CA. from OK.White crop workers. They ended up in the San Joaquin Valley,just like in "Grapes of Wrath".
Just remember that not everyone was depressed!! I have relatives who were not effected during the whole depression. No job or money loss from their bank. Their is no mention of this. These vidoes make one think that everyone was in the same boat and that is just not true.
This video does not make out anything of the sort. If we deny history or cover it up we repeat the crimes of the past....its happening right now....I'm glad your relatives were ok....mine weren't so lucky. Governments should be held accountable. This is the message of this video I think.
Indeed. Some people got RICH off the Great Depression. Conversely, many people are destitute even when the economists tell us we are prosperous. Strange, is it not?
I got layed off at my job. I was living paycheck to paycheck doing customer support. So I looked for a new job. I brushed off my old SEO & PPC Resume. I applied and got tons of offers with great pay! And now I'm living comfortably. And for the first time in my life. I actually have extra coin to throw around if I want to, but I think it's best to save it :)
My advice to anyone is if you lost your job. Don't moob around. Look for a new one. Right away. You might actually find something better!
While your advice is correct most people I know that were laid off have been looking for work for more then 6 months or even a more then a year. And if they do find a job it is with much less pay.
Absolutely; 20 years of wage and price controls and government programs to reduce production in order to maintain price structures and taxes. Read about the so-called "National Recovery Act" if you want to really be scared for the future.
At the TV they always say: "There are 3 millions people looking for a job". It's not true: money could be enough for them. (by Coluche, french actor, and maybe philosopher)
It is a shame that so many people, even historians and some economists, buy into so many fallacies on The Great Depression. Both how we got into it and how we stayed in it until WWII.
The Great Depression, with wise economic policy, should never have happened. There is absolutely no justification for how we got into The Great Depression and how we stayed in it for over a decade.
Both Hoover and FDR were complete domestic disgraces. Thinking historians and economists should not vindicate them.
Let's start from step one here. Where do you think "globalization" hurt America? What do you think is responsible for the Great Depression? What do you think is responsible for the length of the Great Depression (into the 40's)?
truth songs, love the reading about the Great Depressions, makes you feel good about at least having a place where you got a roof over your head
this time should be called Great Depression 2, been seeying in my town about 30 jobs going down, including Krispy Doughnuts (local store only) and Circuit City (all over the nation)
indeed, I watched several reports, read books, and even make 3 essays of the Great Depression, the further we go to the future the further we get more paranoid, overreact, and less independent and strong willed, look at everyone thinking the 2012 is the NEW end of the world, and witht he swine flu too, there has been already other 2 outbreaks and with much less fuss
Check out the old RV at 2:00. People were stronger back then and had more morals. I doubt that people could remain as civil as they did back then under the same circumstances.
well, if you study the laws made by Clintongiving "fanny and mae" special credits thus enabling them to attract customer bankloans otherwise not possible this was a planned initiative in order to run people into debt. If poor people believe in the promises of government, banks - that`s what happens. In the end derivatives created the crisis mortgages could have been easily bailed out with less then the banks received recently...
What we are going through now is nowhere near as bad as The Great Depression. If you can, watch the History Channel's series The Great Depression and you will see why.
I have been there before. In the early 80s I was living in my old Chevy Malibu, taking baths in a nearby lake. When it was too hot I would find a picnic table to sleep on. Sweeping floors, working at tire repair shops to make enough money to eat and buy gas. Some people would say that it sounds like I had no cares,no responsibilities. Let me tell you my friend, IT SUCKED!
I hear you brother. I did the same thing in the early 80's I lived in a 1969 mercury zephyr. The front seat was my bedroom and the back seat was my moms bedroom. I managed to graduate high school and with a part time job on the weekends and another during the week. It really does suck having to take showers at the local showering rooms they had at the beach in Anaheim.
The dates for the Great Depression should actually read 1930 - 1945. Hoover and his interventionism created the big slump. FDR just came and made it Great!
in the great depression gold was money, the dollar was a claimcheck of gold. now we have a dollar that is a claimcheck of nothing. even toiletpaper will be worth more because its much softer when u use it. weimarer republic style. dont believe me? WATCH OUT
I don't think we will ever see a depression on this scale as there is just to much money around in todays recession and there is a helping hand from goverments today (even though it is very small it is more than soup and stale bread)
when you see a Mcdonalds boarded up or your most commom supermarket with shelves bare then you know its heading to the same scale as the 30's but til then its just a blip in the chain called a recession
my grandmother yesterday, in response to this video... "I was not really quite old enough to understand fully the full impact. I just knew that there were lots of hungry people out there & I would make brown sugar sandwiches for those who knocked on our door & said they would work for food. I was too young to put them to work, but not too young to make them a sandwich. We had lots of people that would ask if they could camp in our front yard because they felt protected there."
My Dad was a young kid during the great depression. He has been retired for about 10 years. You can see that the Great Depression really had a big impact on my Dad. To this very day he is very careful about how he spends his money.
Quote,"Grandma worked of a day and grandpa of a night." Often grandma went south to visit her family and came back to find "the rugs rolled up from where they'd been dancing"and she was religious and she got all upset. Later, I found out grandpa had been rum running on the Detroit River. He loved a good time. After he finally had to come back south, because he lost everything. He started a successful grocery store in Tennessee that he ran for 40 yrs.
My mothers parents lost thier jobs, then thier jobs,then thier house, then thier two yr.old daughter to hooping cough in 1929. They couldn't find anyone to bring thier daughter south for burial, so they loaded up in thier model T and brought her back in the back seat. Grandpa stood in the bread lines leaving the food at home for grandma and thier other young child a son. My dad's parents were given a small farm, that they could work from my g. grandfather. Patches on top of patches.
My grand father always told me never to get one of those life sucking credit cards. If you can't pay for it right now, you can't afford it. He paid for everything in cash. If he needed a car, he put so much away every month till he had enough to get one. Some of my family member's kinda laughed at him, but now wished they had listened to him.
to Klaaaan: Well, looks like your Grand Dad got the last laugh. I agree....but it is good to have credit cards just for emergencies. I look at credit cards like "atomic weapons".....only use them in extreme emergencies.
@klaaaan but today you cant get a morgage for a house without credit history, and you need a credit card for that, I agree with your grand father thought, thats what I told my parents went they try to teach me credit
The greedy oil producers from around the world have a lot to answer to. Their actions are - in great measure - a determinant in the current worldwide economic situation.
Governments too, because of their fiscal recklessness, are culpable.
Thank you for posting this reflection on the Great Depression.
bingo, Lots of blame to go around. The people just pointing fingers at Wall St have no idea how this all started. Dont be shocked when most of the world lives on credit then gets maxed out from drunken spending. Greed is also buying a TV or a Car with money you dont have and taking a loan you cant pay back.
Banks have some blame in this too, but you should not borrow money to begin with. Once in debt you are a slave to the holder of the note.
While basically agreeing unfortunately if you c an afford a big ticket item or must spend a lot (new suit for job interviews) and you have to return the item you paid for in cash it can be very dicey.
What we need to Stop is printing money !!! when you print and print money it causes debt and it's even harder to get out of it when they print and print and print money out of thin air!
im not in love with big oil but oil had nothing to do with it if anything oil has been to low for to long which convinced people they could afford a car that only got 13 miles to the gallon
I don't know about great depression but it will be the worst depression since. Look around a lot of what you see won't be around after the New Year so please spend your gift cards as fast as possible. The Unemployment figures are bogus they don't count anybody out of work over a year like they used to. If they counted it the old way unemployment would be now 12-13% or about half the amount of the Great Depression
It really seems like their is something in the air. Like something big getting ready to happen. I have heard others say this as well. I think your right. Look out after Jan.1-10.
People, we are in a recession. The economy is in big trouble, but comparing now to the great depression is like comparing a firecracker to a nuclear bomb. A very small percentage of people living in the U.S. today know what it is like to starve, have no place to live, and no possibility of getting even the lowest paying job. In the great depression about 1/3 of the population was dealing with that on a daily basis. Please people get a reality check!
My parents grew up in the Depression and told me all the stories. We're nowhere near a depression. My Mom put cardboard in her shoes to make 'em last; spent a Summer in an orphanage because her Mom didn't have the means to care for her. The buildings were heated with coal, which is filthy. Do for fun? Played with rats, swam in the nasty Pasaic river for fun, because they didn't know any better. What a bunch of wussies, people complaining on the 'net in their nice warm houses.
america is finished.were done,we cant rcuperate from this.if we do something we will only postpone it...it is... in evitable.pray america.pray for a better future.because,we all need it.good luck U.S.A.
las time we had ww2 save us and pull us out of the depression. now we cant have a ww3 because of all the nuclear weapons.idk how or i we are even ever going to recuperate after this.
Yesterday Was Americas' Wake up Call I hate to say it but we are in a Depression anytime you are in a recession for more than 2 quaters it is Depression just the Giv won't tel you...Megan Ludlow Gammon
I am a jockey and the racetracks became popular in the Depression because of Gambling..I beleive if people all people lived in their means than we would all be better off!!!
true we are in a depression these evil men called the Illuminati are doing this intentinally but we can't blame them for everything we did this to ourselves buying cars that we can't afford,big screen etc... BYE AMERICA
No, a recession lasting longer than two quarters is still just a recession. Any decline where the GDP decreases more than 10% is a depression. The GDP actually increased over the first two quarters of 2008.
People should live within thier means though and stop depending on credit....if you can't afford, save for it or don't buy it.
wtf no im Mexican-AMerican 0_O my family was here when california became california let's just say that all my family is Mexican-American and no chicanos i have no family in mexico they are all Americans
history repeats whites invaded california the goverment stole latinos land and gave it to the okies, latinos that lived there for hundreds of years rounded up and deported secret history to americans but the rest of the world knows.
The Second Great Depression is now starting and it's going to be worse than the first. It is our President's and Congress's fault this time tho. Not over production and stock spculatin........
My dad told me that we should be prepared just in case another Great Depression happens. I am really scared. And, plis, now that a Great depression happened we know what's probably going to happen.
ques: if we sink into a great depression in the near, could this generation rally together like the people did in the '30's... more specifically would serious crime escalate significantly?... amazingly in the depression, murder, rape & armed robbery didnt go up significantly... why was that??/.. would that happen now w/ the ipod generation?
When the depression is over, the ipod generation will be more grateful of their pasts and work harder, and have "nice" "perfect" families just like the people in the 50's.
You think that depression is good for the soul of a nation? I strongly disagree. I think that what we need is more culture, education, and meaning of life.
Cool song at the end of the video.
canon21100 3 days ago
we did a school project on the great depression in reading which i don't understand because it's not reading but thank you this got me a good grade with all the stuff it shows.
shawngee100 2 weeks ago
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BANK RUN -TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO WEST INDIES, REPUBLIC BANK, ROYAL BANK, FIRST CITIZEN BANK and SCOTIABANK thousand of customers simultaneously withdraw all their funds, because they believe that the banks might go into bankruptcy, and for fear of the bank becoming insolvent and that they the customer, will lose all their money.people are putting their money in smaller credit union banks or keeping it at home.
leef0flife 1 month ago
People STILL LIVE LIKE THIS in many places in our country, and elsewhere the world.
ReblBorn 2 months ago
Outstanding soundtrack. People like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans commissioned by the FSA to document the people of rural depression era USA and bring us iconic images that still resonate today.
TheChrisrg 2 months ago
And to add, I don't think we'll ever have a depression as bad as the 1930s. We can still buy things, we still have jobs, we can pay for central heating when we save enough etc. In the 1930s people lost their houses and especially during the war. All the documentaries about the 1930s were set around grey skies. So you should be bloody grateful that for one, our economy has greatly improved over the years and two, child labour and child abuse are forbidden these days.
boffinme80 2 months ago
Anyone who wishes to live in the 1930s, in the era of depression must be mentally retarded. My grandparents don't ever want to see the 1930s again. Ever. You don't know how lucky we are now. Excluding the internet and mobile phones, we have what we want now and live in nice houses with great insulation and we have higher salaries and earn more in luxury which people in the 1930s could never have. The 1950s and 1960s seemed great times but the 1930s are a no no. Hence the name "Great Depression"
boffinme80 2 months ago
Here's a more modern musical take on these events - hope you enjoy! :)
teachingme 3 months ago
Thank you so much for posting....I love and respect all this of those times...
God bless those people....
120446219 3 months ago
We have different problems now, and as little as they seem. Our problems are now harder to solve.
We have more starving people than we ever have had before. More poverty stricken community's than ever before. It's worse than it has ever been.
ReebsRae 3 months ago
Take the mortgage crisis from 3 years ago, the bank failures and the current 9% unemployment rate and the 40% drop in the stock market. Now double all that and that still doesn't tell the whole story about how bad the depression was in 32 and 33.
shire2005 5 months ago
If they learn from the past, the people will survive. I'm one of them.
13Kitties13 5 months ago
@68buickwildcat Tell that to the 14 million who are out of work
DarkPonzu 5 months ago
Murdoch FOX demons are working feverishly. Pray to the lord to annihilate them! DEATH TO SATAN'S WORKERS!
Licmycat 6 months ago
this suffering was caused by unregulated capitalism, profiteering and speculation, the same that brought us our current crisis. it wasn't caused by socialism, or too much government, or too much spending, or too much debt. but it was government spending on infrastructure and public works putting people to work and regulation of the "fat cats" on wall street that got us out of it. there followed 30 years of great prosperity, until ronald reagan's election began the decline of the last 30 years.
mkmcfr 6 months ago 4
@mkmcfr Your right I agree. As I have said the samething, to others. And very true, about Reagan, this was the start. I was in HS during during the days of Reagan. And I have been watching the politics and economics of this country and world since those days. As they say history tends to repeat itself. And alot of people do not pay attention to whats going on. The Republicans love the socialism label on Liberals. And many of their supporters don't know what socialism is.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@mkmcfr Well said sure, well said!
BoyMixer 4 months ago
Your right, then the knew how to eek out food seeds roots to eat from anywhere when desperate, today if the freezers-Cupboards are empty or Mc Donalds was closed half of us would STARVE!
wind4watts 7 months ago
We better clean out the Wall Street henhouse of those robbing foxes before our kids end up in the same place...:(
Licmycat 8 months ago 6
@Licmycat WELL PUT...
tommyleewelch 8 months ago
@Licmycat Wall Street will not crash. If it gets to the point that it could they will stop trading. Because of the safety nets that placed after the last great depression, and of course that is when FDIC came about also.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@Licmycat Wall Street will not crash. If it gets to the point that it could they will stop trading. Because of the safety nets that were placed after the last great depression, and of course that is when FDIC came about also.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE Would you like it to crash? And, I have to ask; would you have to sell apple to live thru the depression if so? I'm very curious what you think; I like to make things happen that make people happy...especially for our NATION.
Licmycat 6 months ago
@Licmycat No I would not want wall street to crash, and I don't believe that I gave that indication thats what I want. In a depression you will sell do anything to get money or you don't eat. Well we the people with half a brain. Would like to do anything to make people happy especially for our Nation, and the world. The last great Depression of 1929 and the next one we could face soon. AND NO I DON'T Want another one. Both had worldwide economic impacts.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE Really? Why do u say that? They are already destroying our nation with their fraud, thievery, and chicanery. What difference would it make? What time do you have dinner? If it crashes, I'll be there....every nite!
Licmycat 6 months ago
@Licmycat Not sure what your asking me???? Yes I understand they are destroying this country. I've been watching this for the pass 30 yrs. If or when we have another economic depression you will see the difference. And we may wish we could eat dinner forget the time. If it crashes you mean when it crashes. I'll be there...every night! And where is there? You lost me on that one.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@MegaELECTRICEYE Never mind. You will experience the future when it gets here...and what ye sowed, ye shall reap.
Licmycat 6 months ago
@Licmycat Explain what you mean what ye sowed ye shall reap. Or did you read what I posted?? I see the future very well and I have seen where we have come from in the last 30 yrs. And I don't like what I see, not sure how much clearer I can make that to you.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
Aint that the truth
Ali44442 9 months ago
Sometimes I wish I was put in those days to feel it, to really feel it to every bone.Then come back and appreciate life
ILUVLUCYDESI 10 months ago
Back then, a man took great pride in his work. Many the man on the production line would always work knowing full well it brough home the food and gifts for the kids. Too often the rich didn't care and so that's how unions got in. However, now the unions aren't screwing the rich, they're going after the people who they should be helping, but don't
genenco1 10 months ago
The Federal State/Bank Embezzlement 63 percent inflation of the money supply during the 1920s caused the economic contraction of 1929; Hoover's criminal socialist policies extended it 3+ years; FDR's criminal socialist policies extended it for 11 years; and Truman's criminal socialist policies extended it until 1947.
qwertypoiu4321 10 months ago
@68buickwildcat for now. this is about to occur again in the near future
00IRON001 10 months ago
Yes we have more blacks and other races working in America but the depression still continue for many blacks in this country. Never in history have i seen the GOVERNMENT has a people so control and yet you ship simple jobs overseas to countries that don't like America. Yes am speaking about America sending jobs and billions of dollars to countries so as to relax the thought of hating us. How can anyone in their right mind thinks its ok for your enemy to make everything we eat and use.
MrTHREEFOOT 11 months ago
I don't think people Today would last 5 Seconds.
I always say That we are only 1 Nigfht away form Hard Time's
1 Night could be the start of a Drought, Fammine, Disaster of some kind,
We juat never know.
How many could Light a fire in the wind, But also keep it alight, & of course a Wood pile/stack, Just 1 Night Away.
MrStablelad 1 year ago
Folk music, where are you from Mars?
bamnibaum 1 year ago
What the hell kind of music is this?
relimes 1 year ago
@68buickwildcat
Not all of us have it so good, even today. Misery and suffering is all relative.
There are those among us now that would have us all get by on far less so that they can have even more.
Go listen to some Woody Guthry. What was true then is true today.
sweetcurmudgeon 1 year ago
Central goverment involvment into economy created Great depression , and in school you are thought that Free Market economy caused Great depression.
aviomaster 1 year ago
No fatties back then. Life was good, no pressure.
caganb 1 year ago
People today would be more concerned about what their neighbors thought If the Superduty or the Beemer got repoed, rather than if their kids ate. Plus back then you couldn't go down to the welfare office and pick up your free government handout. Thank God for welfare...cause poor people deserve 50" flatscreens too with 250 channels of highdef
s0caltrukker 1 year ago
@s0caltrukker
My mom always said even the worst job is better than whatever the government can give you.
wolftreetree 1 year ago 2
Klaaaan I was just going to say what you said. They were poorer than we can ever imagine. But the difference now is you can be left poor and in terrible debt with credit cards! Least their slates were wiped clean and they could start again. Debts will follow and haunt you till your death. My advice is dont get into debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what you cant afford you dont have, full stop! The old ones knew this. I unfortunatly fell in to the have today, pay tomorrow. What a fool I was.
kerri494 1 year ago 2
When financiers take away all money from the people it is called Great Depression ?
Serrokot 1 year ago 3
I don't understand why, but when I saw this video I started to break down and tears came to my eyes. Never had that happen before, seeing a video here. Thanks for putting it up.
sdrfz 1 year ago
great vid and song.........cheers!!!!
MrBillybeetroot 1 year ago
difference now is people will be suffering..stitting in a Lexus or wearing expensive clothes.. but broke..I pass the homeless on my way to work wearing better shoes then me...people today don't know how bad it can be..yet.
rylind21 1 year ago 3
My family came to the San Joaquin Valley in CA, during the depression from the mid west just like thousands of other families."White trash' and "Okies" they were called,They worked picking friut and were poor and homeless.I think young kids there today have no idea what transpired in their families history.Sad!
estelle715 1 year ago
lucky now we have dollor stores and goverment wellfare :D
LolitaPunkRose 1 year ago
@LolitaPunkRose Actually, that really does touch on something that worries me. Everything is in danger of becoming too cheap, including products and the labor that went into making them. The same thing applies to services. For example, Walmart prices are low -- but so are the wages they pay. Things are being done on the internet for free (such as open source code) that used to command high wages. And there are lots of other examples. It worries me.
Glencanon4au 1 year ago
What scares me most is not inflation, but deflation. That's what really ruined people in the Great Depression. Money just seemed to vanish, as people withdrew their money and hoarded it as long as they could. Some people had cash and hoarded it, but of course if they were unemployed, their money vanished over time. People delayed servicing their cars, and many drove them until the cars simply defied repair. Busnesses failed because no one could or would buy anything. It was like the Dark Ages.
Glencanon4au 1 year ago
Everyone I know is buying new cars and boats. Got lots of money in the bank. Couple vacation homes. Don't quite understand why all this depression talk........
aspenmogul 2 years ago
Makes me wonder what they do that they can afford those toys.
ThunderAppeal 1 year ago
@aspenmogul cause your obviosly one of the spoiled ignorant kids who think well if it it isent happening to me it aint happenin at all. Just realize one thing please a very small percent of people are well off and you are a good example of why people dont like wealthy people.
93tillinfinitySON 1 year ago
I see alot of parent with child and family photos that have a "caring" in them unlike today. The youngers of today will have a fit "eat or text" 'eat or computor" that one will get me. Try not to fixate on the bad be ready no debt is the key
russellmantz 2 years ago
Your right.If we have a Depression like the one after the Civil War(most people don't realize it was worse than the one in the 30's),alot of people WON'T survive..
southernraven1969 2 years ago
Does anyone else get the feeling that people of today wouldn't last 10 seconds back then??
influenza99 2 years ago 130
@influenza99 no ... I think a lot of people are suffering and getting by today
rjpcambridge 2 years ago
Ten seconds would be the high end.
infonomics 2 years ago
@influenza99 The children you see in this fought WW2, without the media bad mouthing them, they are and will be our Greatest Generation
sully0001 1 year ago
@influenza99 This is the truth.
boazrg 1 year ago
@influenza99
People... throughout our existence... have had a powerful habit of of surviving whatever we HAVE to have survived.
None of us would be here otherwise.
sweetcurmudgeon 1 year ago
@influenza99 Many people didn't last 10 seconds back then. Do some reading and find out how great it was.
toddy1968 11 months ago
@influenza99 Imagine it: no brand new car with automatic (if you were lucky enough to have a car that ran); no hot showers; no prepared foods, if you can get food; no air conditioning; how do you wash clothes without a washing machine/driver; wash the dishes by hand?! No money to buy food. No money to buy clothes; barely enough money to live in a shack. .... We'd never survive.
chem100 11 months ago
@influenza99 does anyone else get the feeling that the ppl back then wouldn't last a day here?
BRad585 10 months ago
@BRad585 Actually, I think the opposite; people of today wouldn't last a day back there. Except for some people in their 80s, who grew up in it. No tv, no cds, no web, no electric toys. NO CELL PHONES, NO TEXT MESSAGING. I think most under 30 would shrivel up in an hour or so.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc That is true, with the luxuries of today, people would have a hard time thinking their lives could be so much harder.
I just think that the change in having one of them coming here would be almost as dificult fitting in to modern society.
BRad585 9 months ago
@BRad585 Did you ever see the (original) Twilight Zone episode about the man who is leading a failing wagon train across the Great Basin and a modern highway is there? He goes to a cafe in the desert, looking for water and help for his sick son. You have a point, of course, but the majority of people today have lost touch with that part of themselves that can cope. Losing is more traumatic than winning. Interesting ideas anyway.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@BRad585 They'd find people that still remember them. There's bluegrass festivals everywhere. Maybe in more remote places like towns in West Virginia, etc. I had a girlfriend when I was 19 (1971) who's parents were from OK during the Dust Bowl. It's not that remote. To contrast, I knew some wealthy people who lost their wealth and they told me that it was harder losing their luxuries. People committed suicide when they lost their riches back then, but the Okies survived.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@influenza99 YES. I believe the next one will be far worse. And the statement you just made hit the nail on the head I agree with you.
MegaELECTRICEYE 6 months ago
@influenza99 Yes, how would someone live without their LV and Gucci bags? erm...
Vispateresa3 5 months ago
My Grandmother is still alive today at age 96. She remembers the Great Depression from beginning to end. When the banks were closing a friend told my grandmother and grandfather that their bank was getting ready to close. Grandmother and Grandfather went to the bank and withdrew their savings out. Soon after that the bank closed their doors. Grandmother told me that she hid the money behind a pictureframe in their house. nice to know that not everyone lost their savings!!
TheKerryzzz 2 years ago 2
My grandparents remembered the same. My Dad got through by hunting pigeons in barns and selling them for pies . . .
egl2r 2 years ago
actually the great depression started in 1929 when the stock market fell known as "black tuesday" then after world war II was over it ended
dlambp25 2 years ago
What was the 1st song? Just great singing! The pictures are sad and haunting. My mom was in the depression and did come to CA. from OK.White crop workers. They ended up in the San Joaquin Valley,just like in "Grapes of Wrath".
estelle715 2 years ago
Just remember that not everyone was depressed!! I have relatives who were not effected during the whole depression. No job or money loss from their bank. Their is no mention of this. These vidoes make one think that everyone was in the same boat and that is just not true.
TheKerryzzz 2 years ago 2
This video does not make out anything of the sort. If we deny history or cover it up we repeat the crimes of the past....its happening right now....I'm glad your relatives were ok....mine weren't so lucky. Governments should be held accountable. This is the message of this video I think.
crimlinwest 2 years ago
Indeed. Some people got RICH off the Great Depression. Conversely, many people are destitute even when the economists tell us we are prosperous. Strange, is it not?
bitterbonker 2 years ago
I got layed off at my job. I was living paycheck to paycheck doing customer support. So I looked for a new job. I brushed off my old SEO & PPC Resume. I applied and got tons of offers with great pay! And now I'm living comfortably. And for the first time in my life. I actually have extra coin to throw around if I want to, but I think it's best to save it :)
My advice to anyone is if you lost your job. Don't moob around. Look for a new one. Right away. You might actually find something better!
dadecountyhustler305 2 years ago 2
While your advice is correct most people I know that were laid off have been looking for work for more then 6 months or even a more then a year. And if they do find a job it is with much less pay.
edkollin 2 years ago 3
Im sorry to hear that I see your from long island. I live in south florida :)
dadecountyhustler305 2 years ago
Absolutely; 20 years of wage and price controls and government programs to reduce production in order to maintain price structures and taxes. Read about the so-called "National Recovery Act" if you want to really be scared for the future.
barbarianopinion 2 years ago 3
.........we were still in the GREAT depresion in the backwoods of Tennessee during the 1950's....!
yedon68 2 years ago
At the TV they always say: "There are 3 millions people looking for a job". It's not true: money could be enough for them. (by Coluche, french actor, and maybe philosopher)
noainoai 2 years ago
lol country music in the 30's is better than what it is now
TheRemixer05 2 years ago 3
the second great depression: 2001 - present
zombiesonacid 2 years ago
You've never studied the Great Depression, have you?
Bonegirl06 2 years ago
Potato
Craters
Making Sense
Scenes from the Great Depression
G we should learn The Hand Of Time-
DoubleDutchBust 2 years ago 5
It is a shame that so many people, even historians and some economists, buy into so many fallacies on The Great Depression. Both how we got into it and how we stayed in it until WWII.
The Great Depression, with wise economic policy, should never have happened. There is absolutely no justification for how we got into The Great Depression and how we stayed in it for over a decade.
Both Hoover and FDR were complete domestic disgraces. Thinking historians and economists should not vindicate them.
Americaisgreat123 2 years ago 7
The United States really didn't have a choice. Because of globalization, when Europe started sinking after WWI, we went right along with them.
Bonegirl06 2 years ago
Let's start from step one here. Where do you think "globalization" hurt America? What do you think is responsible for the Great Depression? What do you think is responsible for the length of the Great Depression (into the 40's)?
Americaisgreat123 2 years ago
truth songs, love the reading about the Great Depressions, makes you feel good about at least having a place where you got a roof over your head
this time should be called Great Depression 2, been seeying in my town about 30 jobs going down, including Krispy Doughnuts (local store only) and Circuit City (all over the nation)
duranls1 2 years ago 3
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and say people today are overreacting.
I tend to agree with them. The Y Generation is made up of panic-ridden pussies.
Shaman145 2 years ago 4
indeed, I watched several reports, read books, and even make 3 essays of the Great Depression, the further we go to the future the further we get more paranoid, overreact, and less independent and strong willed, look at everyone thinking the 2012 is the NEW end of the world, and witht he swine flu too, there has been already other 2 outbreaks and with much less fuss
duranls1 2 years ago
great soundtrack!
kwikflikz 2 years ago
I lost my job after 21 years and it sucks. I hope the world gets better.
wrk63 2 years ago 3
It very much annoys me when people compare this years crash to the great Depression.
DuchyofFrancisville 2 years ago
it took 2 years before the "depression" started after the crash.
mjalloxxxx 2 years ago
quite true. Thanks for the reminder, but lets keep our hopes up!
DuchyofFrancisville 2 years ago
Sure!
mjalloxxxx 2 years ago
Check out the old RV at 2:00. People were stronger back then and had more morals. I doubt that people could remain as civil as they did back then under the same circumstances.
jeffpolara 2 years ago 3
And ppl whine they have it bad now.
chifour66 2 years ago 2
I' ll still take it over the ASYLUM we're in now !!!
albatos2009 2 years ago 3
this is only due to very few, very greedy globalists looting whole countries and people...
Wecknachricht 2 years ago 2
This has to do w/ a little bit of everything. people buying houses they can't afforded. The blame is well shared.
dadecountyhustler305 2 years ago
well, if you study the laws made by Clintongiving "fanny and mae" special credits thus enabling them to attract customer bankloans otherwise not possible this was a planned initiative in order to run people into debt. If poor people believe in the promises of government, banks - that`s what happens. In the end derivatives created the crisis mortgages could have been easily bailed out with less then the banks received recently...
Wecknachricht 2 years ago
*goes to darn socks*
eiwaz 2 years ago
A very poignant story my friends.
Looks as if history is repeating itself.
Thank you for the film
marktomarketguy 2 years ago
What we are going through now is nowhere near as bad as The Great Depression. If you can, watch the History Channel's series The Great Depression and you will see why.
metalrod23 2 years ago
Don't worry we'll get there in due time but a gradual slide into depression and you will be without a job like me and every one else.
oc5nsli341nforce4 2 years ago
I have been there before. In the early 80s I was living in my old Chevy Malibu, taking baths in a nearby lake. When it was too hot I would find a picnic table to sleep on. Sweeping floors, working at tire repair shops to make enough money to eat and buy gas. Some people would say that it sounds like I had no cares,no responsibilities. Let me tell you my friend, IT SUCKED!
metalrod23 2 years ago 4
You know what it is like and soon people will start asking questions about how to make do.
oc5nsli341nforce4 2 years ago
I hear you brother. I did the same thing in the early 80's I lived in a 1969 mercury zephyr. The front seat was my bedroom and the back seat was my moms bedroom. I managed to graduate high school and with a part time job on the weekends and another during the week. It really does suck having to take showers at the local showering rooms they had at the beach in Anaheim.
gumsidebiz 2 years ago
The dates for the Great Depression should actually read 1930 - 1945. Hoover and his interventionism created the big slump. FDR just came and made it Great!
ftorresgamez 2 years ago 2
my grandma use to sleep on the sidepath with my mum and her 2 daughters when the depression was happening!
faapaleina1234 2 years ago
in the great depression gold was money, the dollar was a claimcheck of gold. now we have a dollar that is a claimcheck of nothing. even toiletpaper will be worth more because its much softer when u use it. weimarer republic style. dont believe me? WATCH OUT
Mongodelight 2 years ago 6
this depression will be much worse, because what you call money is currency and will say goodbye in hyperinflation. Try to shop with toilet paper.
Mongodelight 2 years ago 3
I don't think we will ever see a depression on this scale as there is just to much money around in todays recession and there is a helping hand from goverments today (even though it is very small it is more than soup and stale bread)
when you see a Mcdonalds boarded up or your most commom supermarket with shelves bare then you know its heading to the same scale as the 30's but til then its just a blip in the chain called a recession
brickford27 2 years ago
have you seen what happened in Greenland?
Supermarkets are already closing in LA,Ca
you must also not know of the depopulation plans....if you don't believe...look up in the sky...
and if they do hand you food....best not to eat it...it will be from Monsanto
EntouchNetwork 2 years ago 4
No i have not seen what has happened in greenland? please inform me..
Are super markets closing down or scaling down?
brickford27 2 years ago
my grandmother yesterday, in response to this video... "I was not really quite old enough to understand fully the full impact. I just knew that there were lots of hungry people out there & I would make brown sugar sandwiches for those who knocked on our door & said they would work for food. I was too young to put them to work, but not too young to make them a sandwich. We had lots of people that would ask if they could camp in our front yard because they felt protected there."
M0LONLABE 2 years ago 3
Very important peace of History..
greatlife24 2 years ago
the legendary "Migrant mother"
ZorbinEUR 2 years ago
My Dad was a young kid during the great depression. He has been retired for about 10 years. You can see that the Great Depression really had a big impact on my Dad. To this very day he is very careful about how he spends his money.
wajimya 2 years ago 5
I wonder what the people in these photos who are still living are doing. Not many still living, but it would be good to have their oral histories.
Senschal 2 years ago 2
Quote,"Grandma worked of a day and grandpa of a night." Often grandma went south to visit her family and came back to find "the rugs rolled up from where they'd been dancing"and she was religious and she got all upset. Later, I found out grandpa had been rum running on the Detroit River. He loved a good time. After he finally had to come back south, because he lost everything. He started a successful grocery store in Tennessee that he ran for 40 yrs.
Vearlsriver 3 years ago
My mothers parents lost thier jobs, then thier jobs,then thier house, then thier two yr.old daughter to hooping cough in 1929. They couldn't find anyone to bring thier daughter south for burial, so they loaded up in thier model T and brought her back in the back seat. Grandpa stood in the bread lines leaving the food at home for grandma and thier other young child a son. My dad's parents were given a small farm, that they could work from my g. grandfather. Patches on top of patches.
Vearlsriver 3 years ago 2
My grand father always told me never to get one of those life sucking credit cards. If you can't pay for it right now, you can't afford it. He paid for everything in cash. If he needed a car, he put so much away every month till he had enough to get one. Some of my family member's kinda laughed at him, but now wished they had listened to him.
klaaaan 3 years ago 50
to Klaaaan: Well, looks like your Grand Dad got the last laugh. I agree....but it is good to have credit cards just for emergencies. I look at credit cards like "atomic weapons".....only use them in extreme emergencies.
inkey2 3 years ago 5
No arguement there inkey2. I was one of those family member's that didn't listen.
klaaaan 3 years ago 2
My grand father was the same
moustafior 3 years ago
@klaaaan your message is right on target. I think your grandfather was or is a very smart man. Thanks for sharing.
Jbo1996 1 year ago
@klaaaan but today you cant get a morgage for a house without credit history, and you need a credit card for that, I agree with your grand father thought, thats what I told my parents went they try to teach me credit
FindRealHipHop 1 year ago
If we are talking about the effects of securitisation, personally, I always thought 'derivatives' were highly suspect...
great video - you know, the mother with the kids holding the baby was actually only 32 at the time!
ketchupwitheverythin 3 years ago
The greedy oil producers from around the world have a lot to answer to. Their actions are - in great measure - a determinant in the current worldwide economic situation.
Governments too, because of their fiscal recklessness, are culpable.
Thank you for posting this reflection on the Great Depression.
Corrie121 3 years ago 2
And main street also for owning multiple credit cards buying homes,HD TV's etc they could not afford.
edkollin 3 years ago 5
bingo, Lots of blame to go around. The people just pointing fingers at Wall St have no idea how this all started. Dont be shocked when most of the world lives on credit then gets maxed out from drunken spending. Greed is also buying a TV or a Car with money you dont have and taking a loan you cant pay back.
Banks have some blame in this too, but you should not borrow money to begin with. Once in debt you are a slave to the holder of the note.
HHODork 3 years ago 5
While basically agreeing unfortunately if you c an afford a big ticket item or must spend a lot (new suit for job interviews) and you have to return the item you paid for in cash it can be very dicey.
edkollin 3 years ago
What we need to Stop is printing money !!! when you print and print money it causes debt and it's even harder to get out of it when they print and print and print money out of thin air!
chutubeme 3 years ago 2
im not in love with big oil but oil had nothing to do with it if anything oil has been to low for to long which convinced people they could afford a car that only got 13 miles to the gallon
jeff61813 2 years ago 2
I don't know about great depression but it will be the worst depression since. Look around a lot of what you see won't be around after the New Year so please spend your gift cards as fast as possible. The Unemployment figures are bogus they don't count anybody out of work over a year like they used to. If they counted it the old way unemployment would be now 12-13% or about half the amount of the Great Depression
edkollin 3 years ago
It really seems like their is something in the air. Like something big getting ready to happen. I have heard others say this as well. I think your right. Look out after Jan.1-10.
TheKerryzzz 2 years ago
OMG I think with the ecomie like this we are going to another great dreppresion I pray that we don't..... huhhhhh
maichuethao 3 years ago 2
People, we are in a recession. The economy is in big trouble, but comparing now to the great depression is like comparing a firecracker to a nuclear bomb. A very small percentage of people living in the U.S. today know what it is like to starve, have no place to live, and no possibility of getting even the lowest paying job. In the great depression about 1/3 of the population was dealing with that on a daily basis. Please people get a reality check!
siobyone 3 years ago
YEAH, this time we have welfare for the poor which will inevitably cripple the last of the working class with taxes and dollar devaluation.
Then, government subsidies will have to end and americans will be starving at a MUCH higher rate than the last depression.
Don't forget that it took 25 years to come out of the last depression and America had an industrial base that no longer exists.
GM didn't need a bailout in last depression. Last time was the firecracker, THIS time is the nuclear bomb
recordcastle 3 years ago 2
it just cant and will NOT happen again...not anywhere near that bad anyway.
TheTexanAtheist 3 years ago
My parents grew up in the Depression and told me all the stories. We're nowhere near a depression. My Mom put cardboard in her shoes to make 'em last; spent a Summer in an orphanage because her Mom didn't have the means to care for her. The buildings were heated with coal, which is filthy. Do for fun? Played with rats, swam in the nasty Pasaic river for fun, because they didn't know any better. What a bunch of wussies, people complaining on the 'net in their nice warm houses.
istartedi 3 years ago 3
lol now were going into a depression.
danieknoxville 3 years ago 5
hah!I mentioned my mom the deppresion thing and she said the same thing
gallop24 3 years ago
Better start hoarding up those pintos and lentils!
imrnlil 3 years ago 3
Nice work. For more Depression Era photographs and original song by the Thomas Brothers, watch their movie Pennyland.
MistyOwlMusic 3 years ago 3
people will eat paper, toliet paper, newspaper from dumpster. this is true in 1929...
NauticalFILMS 3 years ago 2
really? Is this the truth??
TheKerryzzz 2 years ago
AWSOME
Acetheresbullets 3 years ago
america is finished.were done,we cant rcuperate from this.if we do something we will only postpone it...it is... in evitable.pray america.pray for a better future.because,we all need it.good luck U.S.A.
EliteHoohahMP 3 years ago 4
I blame it on Bush
StewedTomato 3 years ago
This started way before Bush. Jimmy Carter,ect.
Looks like we could be headed back to this period if things do not change. Thanx for the vid
flatsignedbooks 3 years ago 2
i blame it on your grandfather .....
elvisclowncrahan91 3 years ago 2
las time we had ww2 save us and pull us out of the depression. now we cant have a ww3 because of all the nuclear weapons.idk how or i we are even ever going to recuperate after this.
dankill16 3 years ago
Yesterday Was Americas' Wake up Call I hate to say it but we are in a Depression anytime you are in a recession for more than 2 quaters it is Depression just the Giv won't tel you...Megan Ludlow Gammon
I am a jockey and the racetracks became popular in the Depression because of Gambling..I beleive if people all people lived in their means than we would all be better off!!!
eyelovemyhorses 3 years ago 3
true we are in a depression these evil men called the Illuminati are doing this intentinally but we can't blame them for everything we did this to ourselves buying cars that we can't afford,big screen etc... BYE AMERICA
chutubeme 3 years ago
No, a recession lasting longer than two quarters is still just a recession. Any decline where the GDP decreases more than 10% is a depression. The GDP actually increased over the first two quarters of 2008.
People should live within thier means though and stop depending on credit....if you can't afford, save for it or don't buy it.
quarvis 3 years ago 4
wtf no im Mexican-AMerican 0_O my family was here when california became california let's just say that all my family is Mexican-American and no chicanos i have no family in mexico they are all Americans
chutubeme 3 years ago
history repeats whites invaded california the goverment stole latinos land and gave it to the okies, latinos that lived there for hundreds of years rounded up and deported secret history to americans but the rest of the world knows.
sicsyde 3 years ago
What a relative described to me 2 decades ago:
How to recognize an Economic Depression is coming (lived thru IT):
1) Only the Rich can afford NEW CARS. AND then it's buying cars PERIOD.
2) Only the Rich can afford a DOCTOR. Stay Healthy or ELSE.
3) Live on a farm - you can EAT. Live in the City - you will learn about HUNGER.
4) Only the RICH can afford NEW ANYTHING.
REPAIR what you own - NEVER toss stuff.
5) Too much CREDIT.
6) Money is becoming WORTHLESS.
you1x2007 3 years ago 5
My Grandmother was born just two years before the Great Depression hit.
virusone25 3 years ago
The Second Great Depression is now starting and it's going to be worse than the first. It is our President's and Congress's fault this time tho. Not over production and stock spculatin........
HarborGuy 3 years ago
I think something big is about to happen. A depression so very, very bad .
TheKerryzzz 2 years ago
My dad told me that we should be prepared just in case another Great Depression happens. I am really scared. And, plis, now that a Great depression happened we know what's probably going to happen.
202panda 3 years ago
great video, i loved seeing all those families even tho it was sad.
italiangurl1972 3 years ago
ques: if we sink into a great depression in the near, could this generation rally together like the people did in the '30's... more specifically would serious crime escalate significantly?... amazingly in the depression, murder, rape & armed robbery didnt go up significantly... why was that??/.. would that happen now w/ the ipod generation?
kelvinkloud 3 years ago
When the depression is over, the ipod generation will be more grateful of their pasts and work harder, and have "nice" "perfect" families just like the people in the 50's.
hardcore4republican 3 years ago
You think that depression is good for the soul of a nation? I strongly disagree. I think that what we need is more culture, education, and meaning of life.
jessicamaybe 3 years ago 6