Hard Times

Photo slideshow of "The Great Depression" set to the song "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" by Skip James, performed by Chris Thomas King.

PS. The song in the Credits is "Indian War Whoop" by Hoyt 'Floyd' Ming, performed by John Hartford.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Great
• Depression
• Hard
• Time
• Killing
• Floor
• Blues
• unemployment
• economic
• decline
• history
• shanty
• Hooverville
• debt
• 1929

[tyoungos]

The solution to the Great Depression (“Hard Times”) was WWII (more “Hard Times”) which killed off 50+ millions of the world population to help bring the world back to a manageable, balanced global economy. That’s what the parasitic Illuminati bankers thought. Now history repeats itself. ☆☆☆☆☆

[333joemc]

They could have put up a slideshow of the last 18 months and the song would be still almost as apt.

[lowdenfan]

Hard times indeed. Heartbreaking images to a great song. Thanks!

[29MrDrewdog]

isn't it the truth now

[48alfaone]

"Is this 2011 / 2012"?

[vickielea12]

Pray we never see what our grandparents saw.

[SueNamiii]

@333joemc Hi Joe, There are millions of goodhearted, intelligent people in the U.S. who do not support the actions of some of our presidents &politicians, so it's very frustrating to us as well. It seems so impossible sometimes to make changes for the better, that many people dont even try any more (by voting, protesting, etc). And it's frustrating when we know we are viewed by the world as those damned americans, because of the actions of certain leaders. I vote, my friends vote, we do try!

[333joemc]

@SueNamiii Agreed, just a big misunderstanding then. I'm not from America so my original comment was enunciated in a general context as opposed to pertaining specifically to the USA.

[SueNamiii]

@333joemc Yes, you missed my point, I agree 100%. I am a total human rights advocate, wanting people to think beyond their safe borders. In my comment you replied to, I named places in the U.S., saying we do not see hard times in this country today as we did in the 1930s, so people should NOT be complaining about our current economic downturn, when so much greater hardship exists across the planet. My earlier comment was to a post saying we have similar bad times now. No, not in this country!

[outdoorseldo]

love it

[ke1mc2]

This is incredible!!! Knew the song, but the photography with it is brillant! Hit me hard. Great!

[333joemc]

@SueNamiii Perhaps you should broaden your horizons beyond America, there you will find despotic regimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, aids epidemics, floods, earthquakes and war in the middle east caused by your country’s self serving foreign policy. In this context I would say a song that laments hard times is more than apt.