Depression Video

The iconic Depression era photography of Dorothea Lange to the sound of Bing Crosby singing 'Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime'.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Dorothea Lange
• Bing Crosby
• Politics
• 1930s
• photography.

[chrisnpd]

Can you imagine a deep depression now, I don’t mean the recession we are in currently or the economic downturn we had a little while back. I’m taking full blown depression like in the 30’s. There will be no selling apples on the corner or bread lines this time, or 200 men lined up orderly looking for work. It will be chaos I believe, just look what happens in you own neighborhood when there is a bad snow storm or heavy rains. We are in big trouble.

[Prometheus666333]

@Heeey333 The economy did not flourish because of FDR's programs. It flourished because we entered into an massive industrial build up during WWII.

[deaddoc]

@Americaisgreat123 Oh I'm so wrong. Why are you obsessively posting and replying at 5:00am? How can you be claiming to be seeking to learn with anyone when you are so sarcastic about farmers and farms, and the history of economics in America? I don't have to place myself above you, you shot from below. Anyone with any amount of education in the subject knows more than you exposed on your posts. You shouldn't argue about things you don't know about. Unless all you want to do is argue.

[deaddoc]

@ATSF1927 AND if you lived through the Great Depression and are alive NOW that means that you were a CHILD and someone else was taking care of you! You lived because others gave and suffered. What a punk!

[deaddoc]

Respond to this video... Funny how I happen to know, and more than you, too. I'd like to see you eating your pride this time around.

[deaddoc]

@ATSF1927 Everyone I know who lived through it, and that includes my parents and relatives have a different take on it. But if you did live through it, you won't be around long anyway. You are so full of spite that it makes me wonder why someone hasn't helped you out already.

Ha, no one can know anything about your so special time that no one has any ideas but YOU.

[Americaisgreat123]

@deaddoc - All your assumptions about me are entirely wrong. You clearly are more interested in placing yourself above me rather than debating or learning with me. This is why I so seldom ever waste my time with video comments. So whatever. Have a nice life.

P.S. - If my grammar or composition irritates you, I apologize. I'm not at the top of my game at 5am.

[ATSF1927]

@deaddoc How would you know, you weren't thought of yet. I love it when people make up works about something they only know about through school books when half of them are incorrect or made up stories. I have lived through it and the next I will survive, but you will sink, you have no idea what it was like then.

[deaddoc]

@ATSF1927 So wise. The 29 crash happened because everyone was so very ignorant about how economics work, paper corporations with nothing behind them and everyone bought in. Today's market is much more complex than that and people smarter. But the banks are the culprits this time, not any dude with a typewriter printing out paper to sell. No market means no trade - period. You can enjoy the stone age, feudal society again, and grow turnups in the mud. Attitude means a lot.

[deaddoc]

@outbackeddie The popularity of the Pompadour hair style for men made hats a bad fashion accessory by the late 40s. But you're right, it's good sense to keep a hat on your head. But folks back then didn't have all the terrible fast food corps pushing garbage at them back then.

[deaddoc]

@Americaisgreat123 Weather, tech improvements, etc., made farms more efficient, but the Great Depression ended the sharecropping system used since Reconstruction. International trade increased factories, as well as WW2. Now they've gone. Farmers are aging, av 58 yo and growing with little prospect for replacement. You'll be eating your shoes in a few years, sonny. better learn how to grow something, besides your ego.

[deaddoc]

@Americaisgreat123  You obviously don't know much American history, especi8ally economic history. I bet you can tell me about very battle of the CW, but none of the economic conditions before or after it. Stuff happens. One such item was several very bad winters int he early 19th c due to a volcanic eruption halfway around the world. People whose farms failed often ended up in factories, but immigration was used as well. You're not even smart enough to choose a simple word a sentence.