During the 1930's depression my great grandfather would stand in food lines with his Mom.

since the introduction of the Federal Reserve Act, the dollar lost 99% of its value, Americans deserve every shit that's coming, where they'll do blowjobs for breakfast, because retarded as they are, they're being used and slaving for the FED that's financial enslavement, you'll become new W 5imar Republic, good that many will perish because they don't know how to cook and use the above mentioned ingredients

My grandmother used to wipe her ass with the Sears and Roebuck catalog in the out house because they didn't have running water.

Her mother worked making charcoal for one of the furnaces around here, literally lived in a shack/hole in the ground.

sad stories really, but what can you do when you're owned by the J, where modern Wall Street is placed today

used to be a slave trading market

shows how nothing changed in centuries

My grandfather and great grandfather used to take a rowboat from Catawba Island to Mouse Island (Lake Erie) where they would catch and clean catfish all night. This was used to sustain the family through the Depression.

I'll leave the fingerpointing to you guys but yeah... it's pretty fucked up.

We think we are so much better off because we have smartphones and flatscreens... but we're still slaves.

Outstanding summary.
You are welcome in our bunker any time.

They had Hoover towns or shanty towns during the Great Depression.

My dad was born in 1927, mom in 1930.

They grew up being taught to be frugal.

I learned it and raised my children the same way.

It really isn't difficult, provided you aren't lazy.

My mother and father were young adults at that time . I've heard more personal accounts than you can shake a stick at . Things got pretty brutal.

As I struggle to make sure I have no credit debt it makes me think I am doing its all wrong. I qualify for no free benefits and think what the f am I doing? I cant get a free loaf of bread we live in a backwards society in America. I could easily rack up 80K on CC live the high life then erase it but choose not too.

Au contraie, I feel I'm better off because I have multiple laptops, large screen TVs, and an awesome collection of DVDs.
So there.

And that was before the US government was dedicated to murdering all Americans.

Lol I would just like the purchasing power of the dollar back that we've lost since 1913... would trade all of my gadgets for that.

By the standards of today, my grandfather grew up very poor back then but wasn't too bad off for the time... Wore hand me down patched clothes and he remembered his sister's in flour sack dresses... Never ate store bought food other than flour, sugar and the like... They lived in town but still kept a garden, a cow and chickens... They were probably considered middle class for the time, his father kept his job through the depression at a terpintine plant and even was able to buy cheap rental houses after the depression hit... My grandfather had a bicycle to get around which was more than most kids did.. He had that and a single shot 22... Every day would ride out of town to hunt in the piney woods for squirel, rabbits, coons or whatever else he could bring home for the pot.

i cannot STAND hyundais! even the new modern ones. such trashy cheap ass cars

There's no such thing as tomato's.

my grandpa raised me he was born in 29 he used to tell my all the old stories. brought me up hunting and fishing and being conservative with things. im in my 30s now and i appreciate all the knowledge he blessed me with. though he passed away almost 20 years ago now, he lived to see me tag my first deer a nice 8 point buck and i know he was proud.

My mother told me the very poor and hungry were in the big cities. Her mothet would feed the hobos that came through.

I'm 34 brother. We're probably the same age. I still catch cat fish for dinner a few times a month.

In Zimbabwe we still do

'cept there's no food

The white farmers took it

These threads are an excuse for the 'tards to hype and exaggerate the current economy. We're not in even a recession at the moment. We have moderate inflation that the Federal Reserve hasn't been able to control.

There would be breadlines today. But the "free dis" and "free dat" era where money is printed as debt and redistributed to promiscuous females to be single moms to get housing/cars/food/phone/TV for free, disability checks, social security, medicaid, medicare, etc. This has diluted the circulating supply thereby reducing the value of the dollar. And then the hard working white man gets taxed.

I remember getting my first job out of college that paid ok. But I lived in a small shit apartment and drove a car that I was making fairly low monthly payments on. Had some $ leftover at each paycheck to save a little and spend on whatever. But I could have not afforded a lifestyle any better than that.

However, back in those days, I had a female cousin that had two kids with some deadbeat unemployed loser husband. She divorced him and didn't get much at all in terms of child support. She magically, with two kids and no college education and working a $9 dollar hr job (real estate company printing fliers), somehow magically ended up a in a nice single family home, new car, new phone, etc and raised two kids. Absolutely no possible way she could have afforded all of that plus two kids on her $9 job. Some of her loser divorced friends incentivised her divorce by telling her that she could then get free housing, free phone, car, etc. paid for by the government if she became a "low income single divorced mom". All paid for by the white man. It's nothing but pure socialism.

Economy (wall street) being pumped by the rich only. Otherwise, we're fucked.

My mother was born in 1920, dad in 1918. I heard all the stories.

They saved everything, wasted nothing, used whatever they could come by. I was raised the same. My mom was a stay at home Mother and my father worked. We had one car, which dad took to work, so me and my brother walked to the grocery store every day in 50s and 60s. We got enough to get by, and we were allowed to buy cigarettes for the parents at the young age of 8 and 10.

We ate candy and chip and drank cokes but weren’t fat. We played outside and walked to the stores and school.

I miss those times. Almost like to Kill a Mockingbird or Stand by Me principals.

Yes its just glamorous being homeless.

All the new stuff and drugs you could ever want.

Yet you feel the need to troll this forum everyday.

My great grand parents bought a couple of farms that The CA bound Okies abandoned. My dead beat brother sold them recently.

My grandfather was a railroad worker, would go shooting groundhogs and rabbits to supplement the family meals. They lived in town but had a big garden.

Big rule was whatever was put on their plate, the kids had to eat. My mother developed a gag reflex to certain foods she would never serve us ( parsnips was one) and she never ever forced us to eat anything…though her sister my Aunt did, which gave my cousin eating issues and obesity

Tough people, tough times