" LIFE IN THE THIRTIES " 1930s DOCUMENTARY FILM GREAT DEPRESSION, NEW DEAL, DUST BOWL, FDR 91964
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This b&w educational film is about the United States in the 1930s. It was released in 1959. This film is part 1 of 2. FOR PART 2 VISIT: • " LIFE IN THE THIRTIES...
Opening titles: McGraw-Hill Films presents "Life in the Thirties" (:08-1:22). A man puts up a closing sign. The 1930s are upon us and it is the Great Depression. The Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 and marked a time of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes and economic growth. A man wears a sign: unemployed, will take any job. Men stand around, no money, no jobs. Bread line. Farmers talk, men stand and stare at him. A flyer calls for a strike. People rally, farmers grab guns, jump on a truck, break through a group of people and then pour milk out onto the ground (1:23-4:04). U.S. Capitol building. WW1 veterans march on Washington, they want their benefits. Troops disperse their rally. White House. President Hoover. Men sit in parks all day long, out of work, despondent. People go to banks and withdraw everything, not everyone can as is there is no money left. On the eve of the presidential election in 1932, the financial system is in great peril. People march and protest Hoover. President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt rides with Hoover in a car to the former's inauguration, they barely speak. The first inauguration for Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States on March 4, 1933. People cheer as the car drives by (4:05-8:49). U.S. Capitol at night. Roosevelt doesn't attend the Inaugural Ball, he goes right to work. Newspaper headlines show Roosevelt's attempt at improving things immediately. He closes all banks for March 6-9, 1933. Signs show that people still sell goods and people can return and pay later. Roosevelt addresses the nation in a Fireside Chat. Trains ride the rails. Economists head to Washington, D.C. At the White House, Roosevelt surrounds himself with Raymond Moley, Rexford G. Tugwell, & Adolf Berle. They are part of Roosevelt's new Brain Trust. Through 100 historic days, all New Deal measure passes without question. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. A hand bangs a gavel, letters open. . General Hugh S. Johnson, head of the NRA ( National Recovery Organization ). Will Rogers supports the NRA. General Hugh S. Johnson gives a speech to the people (8:50-14:47). A ticker tape parade for the NRA, people gather, people seem hopeful. Utah repeals Prohibition on December 5, 1933. Beer is back, real beer. End of Prohibition. 8 states remain dry but 40 do not. A horse pulls a wagon of beer. Beer is poured and served. A band plays, people dance and drink. Couples talk and party. Liquor on display, bartenders make drinks, fill glasses, people toast and drink. A man gets up and out of bed. He puts the shower on, shaves, does his hair. People are returning to work. WPA (Works Progress Administration). A dam lets water loose. Men at work outside. Some men are placed in Government camps where there is work. Farmers watch as cattle grazes. (AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act was a law designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. Men sit around (14:48-19:06). The Dust Bowl --parched, dried out land. Sign reads: No More Dustbowl. The demagogue, Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish," served as the governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. Dr. Francis Townsend was an American physician who was best known for his "Townsend Plan" to end the Great Depression by opening up jobs for younger workers, while forcing seniors to spend more money in the consumer economy. Father Coughlin, the 'radio priest' scoffs at democracy and plays off racial prejudice. Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith was an American clergyman and far-right political organizer, and leader of the Share Our Wealth movement. Hyde Park on the Hudson, Roosevelt relaxes, drives a car. He appeals to the common man due to his being common. Warm Springs, GA where Roosevelt swims, he couldn't stand or walk due to having polio. He swims with others who cannot walk. In 1936, Roosevelt runs for re-election. He rides a train and meets his followers. Roosevelt speech (19:07-25:09). Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, Roosevelt's opponent. Landon parade. Election Night 1936 - Roosevelt wins by a landslide. Roosevelt has his second term (25:10-26:53). No end credits, end of Part 1.
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I was born in 1939. My family went thru the depression. Thank goodness for gardens with fresh vegetables , beans, potato’s and corn bread. We managed and I grew up going to school, Sunday school, Bible school in the summer. My grandmother sewed most of my cloths. We made it thru.
Your garden grew cornbread?
Both of my parents lived through the Great Depression. I learned at a young age not to waste anything.
Most Certainly
My grandparents and parents lived through it too. Their motto was "Waste not, want not".
Mine lived through it also. You are right "waste not want not".
My father was born in 1925. He would tell me stories about the Great Depression, sometimes his mother just wouldn’t have any food. She gave him a slice of bread, and a glass of water that she mixed some sugar in. Then the Depression ended and when he turned 18 he was drafted into the army and shipped over to Europe to fight in the war. I don’t think my generation could have handled that.
yes - unfortunately the US-depression ended only "thanks" to the war +1939 effort... Never forget: Wall-Street funded Adolf straight form the beginning which was also the time shown here in this film (late 1920's and 1930's)
I'm a friend of an old jeweler from Hamburg. Mr. Heinecke. Born late January 1920. He died with 99 years and the last 2 years he lived with Alzheimer.
The stories he told me were facinating. In 1948 Germany got new money from the Reichs-Mark to the Deutsche-Mark. He told me what he bought that day (china ware) and this service was still around in this shop, as we ate together, the whole staff (son, daugther, grand-son, seller-girl 1 and 2 and me), in the morning (I made very often sandwiches for us all) and the lunch time. It was me who cooked under supervision of one of our girls. This was once a week during my traning to become a watchmaker (2006 to 2009) at the clock & watchmaking school in Hamburg.
(I'm born in Hannover 100Km under Hamburg, north Germany).
He, Mr. Heinecke told you the old-time stories just like they were yesterday.
He had as a 9 year old though times with his father and mother together to survive. Very often he told me "I don't really like to think about it how it was"
After WW2 he pulled up in the ruines of Hamburg an old safe with his father.
During war he was forced to kill 2 russians which was so terrible for him (to go into a forest-part and shoot them).
He told that scene over and over again. Perhaps this let him live longer, as he spoke about it. But only to good friends and family.
A russian girl said in that time to him (even in german): "Werner - war is shit!" ("Werner - Krieg ist Scheisse!")
We must beware of goverments and banksters - they like to do the wars for profit and power.
I think NO ONE can handle such situations well...
Kind regards and cordially,
Géréon
Your dad was part of the greatest generation this country had but we have turned so far away from God that if this nation doesn't repent were heading for something far worse than the great depression.
You can and will adapt to tough times/ situations!
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The depression ended after the war.
My dad was born in 1932. Many years ago I asked him what it was like growing up then. He said a few very simple words “ Everybody was nice”. I’ll never forget that.
lmao 1930s where men legally beat their wives and where whytes terrorized non whites without consequence? not much has changed
My dad born 28-- first job in trainyard Knoxville TN 12 yrs old- joined Marines in 45 age 17. Thing that got me was a twelve year old working in a trainyard.
My grandmother was born in 26, during the great depression she couldn’t even afford a pencil for school. She had to drop out in the eighth grade, to take care of her brothers and sisters, her mother passed away. Her stepmother was abusive, she found her father hanging in the barn. They were losing the farm, her father couldn’t take it. That woman suffered her entire life.
Things were simpler
@@Ninnjette-so then everyone definitely wasn’t nicer!
The biggest thing that really bothers me about the great depression is that even though the banks were closing they still managed to take possession of the peoples land and homes. Greed is what caused it and we are not far from the same thing happening to us again
You will own nothing and be happy.
Ida Auken, WEF ( World Economic Forum).
Luis Rossman's channel talks about this a lot. He's also a champion of right to repair.@@cruncherblock3834
HOW SUCH A TRUTHFUL STATEMENT!
we’re a lot less close than we were in 2009 when Obama pulled us out of the mess that Bush left for him.
It’s happening again right now on a massive scale.
My mother was born in 1916 and my dad was born in 1920. They both lived to be 94 years old. They made sure we knew what it was like during the great depression and how they all survived. I don’t think the young people of today have the know how to survive something like this.
yes they would please get over your selves
Yeah please, go be a pathetic boomer somewhere else. First of all, this is happening again on massive scale and people are doing fine in some cases. It’s a struggle, it’s sucks, it’s hard, but we’re doing it. There’s a whole new class of “new poor” and that was all so boomers could have more money in their pockets and go on cruises while millennial and elder gen z-er’s work their asses off.
@@Augustlove801what happens when McDonalds closes down? After all the targets get looted? When the tp runs out? Easy peasy simpler times
And now we are at these same crossroads, and these kids will turn to communist ideology I'm afraid
Absolutely not! All the crying rooms would be closed down! They didn't call the people of this time 'the greatest generation ' for nothing!
My mother's father was killed on his railroad job in 1929, leaving behind a pregnant widow and five other children. There was no welfare in those days. A crooked lawyer, a trusted distant relative, took a bribe to let the statute of limitatons pass. Were it not for generosity from organizations like the Salvation Army, their hunger would have been greater. My mother, second eldest, cleaned doctor's mansion every day after school to help provide. Yet one by one the four younger boys had to go off to a home for orphaned boys, returning home only on certain occasions. Mom was first in her class but no scholarship was had and she went to work full time to help support her mom and aging grandmother and to maintain a roof over their heads. These were difficult times indeed.
God bless the Sally
Your mother was a truly wonder young lady...a sense of responsibility and knowing her family needed her to do the necessary...what a difference nowadays...and not for the better..
@@SandfordSmythe I support SalVal, as do others in my family as a way to pay forward.😍
You must be white
@@surferbri5346 must I be?
My mom was born in 1932. She passed away in March of this year. Watching this video because I miss her and wanted to see what life was like back then.
My dad was born in 1932 but he passed on 11 years ago. Sorry for your loss. My mama was born in 1936 and is still living.
My dad was born in 1932 and died Nov. 2021. He often talked about the hardships they went through during the great depression, but him, his 4 brothers and 2 sisters lived on a farm and he said that because they had their garden and chickens, sheep, pigs and other animals, they never had to go hungry. I'm afraid if this were to happen now, it would be a total disaster and millions would starve to death because the family farms don't exist like they did back then.
My condolences Mojo.
Sorry for your loss I know how it feels❤
@@barrycuda3769thank you but happy times ahead 3 weeks grandbabies twins will be here. happy times to you also.
It was a good day when we watched one of these films in a school class!
My Dad was born in 1928. His Mom and sister had to stay with relatives while Grandpa and Dad went looking for work. Had to sleep under the truck most of the time. We have it good nowadays. 👍😎☘️☘️☘️
My grandmother always talked about two things, one was the depression and the other religion. About the depression, she always said that the uncertainty and occasional scarcity of things was stressful but that everyone helped each and looked after each other. She always stressed that nobody she knew went hungry. Bartering was a normal part of the economy. As for religion, she always said that she and her family and friends would not have gotten through the ordeal without their faith.
Meanwhile today we have many groups of people attacking religion. The enemy knows how important one's religion is and that's why they want to take that away. One of many tactics used against us.
@SJ
The victim complex is pretty pathetic pal.
@@melissafellers854 oh really thats what I am?
@@melissafellers854 just do some more research on what's really going on in the world besides just the quick impulses of today and tomorrow.
Yes, and the Bible addresses the subject. Good will be considered evil and evil will be called good. That’s exactly what we have.
My grandmothers lived through the great depression as kids. They were very poor and times were very tough. They were very thrifty through the years but always generous within reason. They were really good people and I miss them terribly.
They called him the gay crusader. SMH.
My parents survived the depression despite losing their parents (except my mother's mom). Both parent's graduated from high school and attended college despite their Depression conditions. Both viewed Roosevelt as a socialist and detested many of his New Deal programs. They entered WW 2 in the military and defeated Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo with the help of many brave other men and women. The Depression made them no nonsense and tougher to face reality when peacetime. Here's to all the descendents of this era who are blessed attached to the "greatest generation"!
Even though life was tough in the 1930's, people seemed to help each other more then. My parents grew up in the thirties and they were both very altruistic people who would go out of their way to help those experiencing problems. This kind of attitude stayed with them until the day they died.
Most people came from big families, so they learned early about hard work, helping one other and sharing paying off in the long run.
What goes around comes around was a popular cliche.
I’m just one person, and no saint, but have helped build 200 homes, a few food banks, worked with homeless, tutoring adults and children.
But the millions I raised and spent over 25 years is just a drop compared to any government program.
@@hjeffwallaceGovernment merely distributes the money we give it and poorly I might add. It does not create human equity and resources. That is all done on the individual level by picking up the shovel or having children and teaching our youth to contribute. Government is a joke. Especially when it's looked at as a savior.
Trust me if all 360,000,000 US citizens felt a duty to serve and create as you do then we would have zero need for government.
@Bryan Smith When you vote republican, you vote for this waste. We can do just as well with 20 million, 40 million can go to plugging that deficit.
My parents were born early 30’s. They had to work REALLY HARD for what they had. I think when you grow up dirt poor, you learn to appreciate everything a LOT MORE!! They didn’t whine like a lot of people do now. People now are SPOILED!!
At 18:45 they were talking about paying Farmers to not plant crops. They still do this today but I didn't know the government price-fixing was going on way back then. I think it's crazy to pay them not to plant crops when there is starving people
that would drive down prices causing farmers not to farm because they cant afford to with what they make, causing starvation world wide
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The book Hard Times by Studs Terkel is a collection of interviews from people that lived through the great depression. Great read if you're interested in this topic.
Another is _The Common Man_ by Amity Shaels. I suggest its read to anyone who'll listen.
My wife and I were seniors in high school when 9/11 hit. We both joined the Army as paratrooper first responders and deployed twice to Iraq. This experience changed so much in my mind. From visiting the ancient city of Babylon to losing one of my best friends. I found God, or He found me and started changing my heart. In 2011 my wife and I quit out jobs and became farmers. It wasn’t easy at first but now we have acreage and a fully functioning veggie farm. We raise sheep and chickens and have access to a fresh well and more fish than we could ever imagine. I strongly suggest people move out of the cities and get back to the farm life.
Great, Destroy more nature.
So true.
The Ancient Ruins of Babylon is the only reason I’d ever visit Iraq. Hope they continue to take care of it!
@@tommyjones1357 I’m not sure civilians can visit Babylon today. It’s Probably still very dangerous but yes it was amazing. One of the most spiritually-charged places I’ve ever been to.
Amen
To whomever put this together, is so fascinating to me! My great grandparents were only 8 years old , in 1933( all 4 are pushing 99,) and are still healthy, and with me! Thankfully! They were in World War 2, my parents were in Vietnam, my dad in Desert Storm , I was in Afghanistan, Army Captain. All of us in the Army, and honorably discharged! I will show this to my great grandparents. To whomever put this together, thank you- terrific work. I will soon see part two. Thank you again and god bless you and everyone here!
My mom and dad were born in the 20's, remembered the Depression very well. Getting hand me downs, making-do, feeding extra mouths at the dinner table.
They could make and do anything. We played with cardboard boxes and strings, and old wire, because they did. My in-laws were each 5th children, they wasted
nothing. Tina, Al's wife
As the son of two severe alcoholic parents, I often wonder how different life would have been if Prohibition was never repealed. All of that pain, anger and sorrow could have been avoided.
Today, the booze is delivered to your door. My sincerest prayers go out to the victims of alcohol today.
Drugs come to your door too, weed is legal, telling ppl they can't have something makes them want to get it by any means necessary. There would be nothing but rich gangsters running illegal alcohol if that wouldn't have happened
Alcohol destroys everything it touches. Everything.
I've heard compelling arguments that prohibition despite being seen as a catastrophe had a huge benefit in things like husbands abandoning their families, domestic violence... all the things you would expect to get better without alcohol. however, I have come to believe if not one thing it will be another. it's painful to be alive. he who makes a beast of himself takes away the pain of being a man.
My great grandfather owned breweries and bars that were shut down by prohibition. He was ruined financially. There was no recompense. The mob moved into the area from Chicago with their stills. One was down the road from my mother's farm. They had two armed guards at the drive night and day. There are many old still sites left. I remember one grown over in the woods - three abandoned houses in a semi circle around what is now a trail, each with gun stands in the peak of the attics - built in seats, and gun holes surrounded by thick plate metal. There was extensive alcoholism. Plus you could still brew your own. Even in a country strict as Saudi Arabia people get drunk. A Saudi college friend's brother spent a year in prison for drinking. As the saying goes - You can't blame the oven for gassing the Jews. If alcohol was banned, addicts would transfer their addictive behaviors elsewhere. It's the addicts responsibility to own their behavior and get help. Blaming others is a basic feature of codependency.
My mothers family, Canadian, had a camp outside of lashute. They were free to move from Montreal to Lashute as they wished, fishing and growing their own food. My mother doesn’t remember there being a depression. 90 years later, she saved used tea bags, insisted I learned, which I did, sew her clothes. She was a proud citizen. She passed away with enough to keep her kids well.
Never used tea bags. Environmental waste.
And I’m sure your mother NEVER COMPLAINED, like all of the WHINERS do today!! I was born in 50’s, they put us to work when 10 or 11 years old.
My father always said “it won’t kill you”
And it didn’t. Things have changed a lot in 90 years. I hope we never have another depression. A lot of people would starve to death. They wouldn’t have any idea of how to raise food!
you said "had a camp outside of lashute". What does that mean? They owned a camp, like a summer camp business? or they lived at a camp, like a homeless encampment or??
@@manp1039 they had a summer house.
@@danmeadows3859 I went to a Catholic school from 1960 to 1968.My 5th grade teacher had a poster on the wall that read
If a task is once begun
Never leave it till it's done
Be a laborer great or small
Do it well or not all We recited the pledge of allegiance every morning too.Patriotism and the work ethic were emphasized.
My parents encouraged us to work and to save our money.A kid could open his own savings account at the local bank.I had my first job as a paperboy when I was 8,and my first regular job as a cook at 14.
My grandmother grew up on a rural farm during the depression. She talked about how they never had any issues with food because they grew everything and raised animals. If only land and houses were affordable now 😔
Same with my mother. Said they always had food on their table.
My grandmother is from Sydney, Montana and her family and she lived on a farm. She also said they never went hungry for the same reason. Beef was hard to get though!!
Contrary to popular belief, the DEVIL has taken over the government and now it is a government of the rich by the rich and for the rich. They have stolen everything through taxation, legislation, inflation, regulation, and extortion.. The good news is, The GREAT TRIBULATION is soon coming and the end of WICKEDNESS (Psalms 37: 10, 11, 29).
Land and houses are markedly cheaper in rural areas, compared to most (every?) city. The bigger issue now is that no one has the skills or backbone to live the farmer lifestyle.
@@BuddyLee23 It's very demanding and hard work being a farmer or even a gardener. If you don't do things at the right time you may as well not do it. Growing things don't wait till later. Most folks are just too lazy and lack patience to grow things.
Veterans went to war & then needed their bonus money that was in a written contract & instead the gov showed their appreciation to these men by saying hell no and beating them. Ain't much changed huh?
Well, actually their bonus wasn't due until 1945. But point taken, our US Gov't still f*cks over our Vets continuously, while taking huge payola from defense contractors.
Not with the government involved.
Oh please, everything's changed. But enjoy your pity party.
@@hensonlaura You need to change makeup.
@@hensonlaura WTF IS Your Problem?
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Like Voting! 50 Mr Presidents inn and we still await one who will do something, lasting and for the good of We the PERSONS aka voters! Same olde same old razzle dazzle ... same olde treadmill of debt ...
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And bad times are just around the corner.
@@simonf8902 Do you really think so? Like inflation and food shortages?
Idk. I think most things have dramatically improved in the now nearly 100 years, but true enough that things are not yet perfect.
My grandfather and his brothers did OK during the 30's. My Grandfather was a hustler and did a lot of side jobs. His brother, legend has it, Bootlegged Whiskey from West Virginia to Ohio. He eventually owned the second radio station in Akron, OH. Owned a movie theater, Summit Beach Park. He owned a lot of CBS stock back then. I remember after he died as a kid, going to his Merriman Rd. mansion and seeing Agnes Moreheads autograph on his huge bar wall.... He entertained many celebrities back then...
Could be worse....that flaming cheeto could be in the White House. Dont care who is president so long as Trump is not president. We have a lot to deal with now.
Well did u get some of his inheritence?
In the end, the NEW DEAL actually begins to fail but the outbreak of war saved his cause. Thanks for posting this video.
That was primarily due to the GOP taking both houses of Congress in 1938, and then sabotaging or ending every part of the New Deal that they could.
Considering the shape the country was in and the fact these programs were radical ideas for their time, it worked pretty well.
It failed partly because there's always someone to ruin things for everyone else; people milking the system, etc. It never fails!
@@beverlyledbetter4906 At the exact time the new deal was beginning to fail; Dixiecrats and GOP were blocking the success of the bill shortly before ww2
So conservatives were ruining things, again.
Communists were against FDR, and conservatives repeatedly bringing attention to things that weren't communism (like the New Deal), has been demonstrated by historians to have actually distracted from real Soviet Espionage occurring at the time. Most Soviet Spy rings sought to undermine Roosevelt.
Every year before 1938, the first year Conservatives were able to block New Deal measures, the % of labor force unemployed dropped dramatically.
Programs by the New Deal were effective, and created mass employment, as well as encouraged increased spending, which propped up the economy.
Such programs built or renovated 2,500 hospitals, 45,000 schools, 13,000 parks and playgrounds, 7,800 bridges, 700,000 miles (1,100,000 km) of roads, 1,000 airfields and employed 50,000 teachers through programs that rebuilt the country's entire rural school system.
@@beverlyledbetter4906 yes..unfortunately there's no cure for human nature.
My grandma was born in 1920. She had 4 sisters and a brother. Back then you had to pay tuition to go past 8th grade. But the girls adored their teacher and wanted to be a teacher like her. So they would pick berries all summer and sell them at their uncle’s store. Grandma told me when they got paid, they would each pick out a piece of candy and put the rest in the bank for their future tuition. Then came the crash of ‘29. Grandma said they “cried and they cried” because they lost all their berry money. Grandma died at 88 in 2008. She never went past 8th grade.
30 years ago was 1993. I was 29 then, but it doesn't seem like it was that long ago. My daughters were just kids then, and now they are adults with kids of their own. The 1990s were some good times, and in my mind it was recent history.
Why do I bring this up? When I was in grade school in the early 1970s, most of my teachers were bitter old men and women that seemed to hate children. They certainly didn't mind smacking us; it was legal then. One thing all those old teachers had in common was they had grown up during the great depression, Dust Bowl, and World War II just 30-40 years earlier. They certainly didn't mind telling us how bad their life was when they were younger. That would have been ancient history to us.
Knowing what I now know, the 1930s and 1940s was recent history to our teachers in the 1970s. No wonder they were so bitter. I wish I had known what I know now because I could have enjoyed learning something from people who actually lived through all of this.
You are very insightful for l to was born in 62 went to school 70s,you made something clear to me,thanks
Thanks for saying something important that I (born 1954) just noticed recently. Time is an odd thing, isn't it?
It’s scary how much this reflects on our current situation.
To a T
Not really. They were starving. You want free stuff.
@@Veritas.0 speak for yourself commie.
Biden frequently compares himself to FDR . lol!! he isn't even in the same arena as Biden is a liar !!
1930,'s US was under strict race laws & segregation was legal along Jim Crow & voter suppression and poll tax. anti-Semitism and pro-Hitler movements like german American bund openly marched in public with uniforms & swatzikas!
Everything went alright then and everything will be alright now. Keep loving all. Love 💕 from Buffalo New York … life is beautiful always … 😊
I like your optimism but when you can't feed your children life isn't beautiful.
Alexander Scourby narrating. The best of the best.
This movie helps me understand my dad Herb, who grew up on a farm in the 1930's and was a fanatic with saving money. He once hollered at my mom and had her shook up to tears, over how she'd written a check instead of pay cash for something, and it cost 10 cents to write the check. Herb in the 1960's was making probably $32 an hour in today's money, but he had us little kids badly scared we were soon to starve in poverty, with his constant rants about we didn't have enough money, what we actually did. We had plenty
$32 an hour isn’t much for one person let alone a family.
@@Wildflower-bc4ky Yes, it actually is plenty to live on.
@@sharmanmurphree-roberts4018 Not in this economy I’m sorry to say.
@@Wildflower-bc4ky If you think $66,560 a year isn't enough to live on, you must have grown up very privileged indeed. I know many people who live just fine off of less than that. And since the present economy is a direct result of Biden's execrable financial policies, along with "woke" decisions made by the leaders of all the Democrat-led cities such as Los Angeles, Portland, and New York, I can only hope you are not personally contributing to the economic problem by voting for these people. Because of course, it makes no sense to complain about a problem you are actively helping to create. Raising people's pay, while simultaneously printing billions of dollars unbacked by anything, and thus DIRECTLY CAUSING massive inflation, does no good. It's just useless political posturing, which the left excels at. So I sincerely hope you are not guilty of contributing to the problem you complain about.
@@Wildflower-bc4ky Depends on your perspective and life style - what about people now trying to live on minimum wage of what is it - 8 dollars an hour - that the government refuses to raise. Try living on that.
19:09 the footage from the Dust Bowl is incredible. Seeing families drive away from ruined farms and destroyed land shows how intense the Great Depression really was
Many millions of people died or just vanished, 10s of millions.
AKA "the Dirty Thirties."
Dirty, indeed.
my grandparents were children during the depression and i think it made them paranoid for their future. they kept a garden, had money hidden around the house, reused foil/bags/jars, never upgraded furniture or appliances if it could be repaired...everything was for "just in case something happened".
Fast forward to 2007-10. The crash and people lost houses, cars, lives in the USA. These people are in their late 40s now. After that they did as the depression people and bought old houses with cash, bought old cars with cash, and saved their money. The flashy times were over for them due to the trauma of losing everything due to buying on credit. They became very sober people.
My mother grew up during the depression. She said if you lived on farm you barely knew the depression existed. Life didn’t change at all for her family on the farm .
But if a farmer experienced the dust bowl, then it was a different story
Yes the Dust Bowl. Clearly (no pun intended) she didn't grow up in Oaklahoma, probably upstate NY or in Michigan or something?
sounds like stories I heard. Grandma said that people sometimes would knock on the door and her mom would give them what they could to eat. I hard a story about my grandpa catching a pigeon and trying prepare it to eat when he was like 4 or 5 and it horrifying the family. no food must have been wild. I've never been truly hungry to the point i was worried in all my life.
When the Great Depression and other huge catastrophes occurred, I used to believe that everyone went bankrupt, but they didn't... Some made millions; I also assumed that everyone closed their businesses during these times, but certain did start new ones. It all depends on your point of view; there will always be moments of prosperity for some individuals and times of depression or recession for others. My primary concern is how to grow my reserve of $120k which has been sitting duck since forever with zero to no gains.
First step is discovering loopholes to generate gains during volatility, It is very possible to retire big time from the current market condition without having to hold stocks long term.
@@greekbarrios Most of these strategies and loopholes are better managed by experts and pros, the average investors on the other hand are exposed to market sham which can lead to portfolio blunder. The issue is people always have the “I want to do it myself mentality” Unapologetically, that’s why they get heavily affected during a crash, most folks aren’t equipped enough to capitalize on drawdowns hence, its ideal to seek a CFP.
@@sommersalt88 At first-hand encounter, I stay unbothered amidst crisis and even pull off profits easily in a bull market, coupled with the fact we’ve had the longest bullrun ever in U.S history before officially falling into a bear market last year, i still maintain growing my portfolio from $170k to nearly $1m since late 2019 before the pandemic till date.
@@MIchaelGuzman737 To me, not everyone can afford a financial advisor. I personally dabble in stocks and my first rule is survival before flipping for chunky gains! congrats however, your Financial Planner must be really good, mind if I check him/her out on my computer?
She's a lady, "THERESA DANA PEEK" is her name. I initially came across her on a CNBC report then on smart advisors and at once searched her on the internet, best decision I've made to stay afloat these crazy times. She's been exemplary
My Mother and her mother (my grandmother) were walking down a street in in Kansas City MO when they heard a scream and a terrible thud behind them. My grandmother (god bless her) picked up my Mother (6yrs old at the time) and together they ran down the street. Some poor man had jumped to his death from the roof of the building they had just passed. He was not the only one to kill himself during the Depression.
That's awful
Yes it was an awful period of time for a lot of people then. But my grandmother lived to be eighty years old. And my Mother was 94 when she died in 2021. Thanks again....Philip B
We've come full circle! this one will be savage!
My elderly father had tears flowing recalling how his high school buddies were starving to death!!! They were all welcomed to chicken dinners by my Grandma
Many people starved until the 70s in most areas of the world. Always be proud if are able to provide shelter, eduction, health care, safety, and food to your children all the years they need to grow up. During most of history most were not able to do all these things completely.
Farmers always had a tough life. Industrial jobs expanded the US Middle Class, but they were also vulnerable to downturns, and, finally-with outsourcing and automation-those jobs were permanently lost.
Farmers too were tossed aside with the megafarm corporations.
The petro dollar killed US labor & goods.
@@scasey1960 What killed labor was corrupt management. The hiring in of unemployable friends and relatives got so bad in the late stages that most companies had to hire contractors just to get anything done. Finally the rich got sick of it and just pulled everything overseas.
@@boristheamerican2938 th-cam.com/video/vyhTq2vfgWE/w-d-xo.html
Greed was the basis for
All our mistakes.
1849-men thought they could all go West and get rich mining gold.
1929-folks had been buying stocks on a 10% margin for a Decade, and thought the Gravy Train would Never end.
2007-ordinary folks mortgaged (sometimes several) McMansions, and the financial markets were backed with those mortgages.
We Never Learn
We need to just day no to debt and drugs and democrats.
Tulip bubble.
@@waterheaterservices how's the national debt under trump
Yep, people do not know their own Country's History. The "Derivatives" are still floating around from the last collapse. Keynesian Economics Scheme is the worst thing to ever hit this country, it is building the BUBBLE of ALL Bubbles. These people NOW, the HANDLERS IN CHIEF are digging a HOLE like the Universe has never seen.
@@chubeye1187 Not as bad as under Biden ;)
This is why the internet evolved. Fascinating historic features. Bliss
Thanks
Great film. There are some similarities with today's political environment for sure. With comparing the 30s and today, the black cloud of the early 40s looms. I pray this familiar time today doesn't give way to WWIII
If I had to guess, it will. History is cyclical. You can already see the world leaders moving us toward war.
Senator Biden will save us
@@waterheaterservices
Lol cry
@@waterheaterservices Someone said that Biden & Harris were sent by God ....... I asked, WHY ? Was he out of locust and frogs 🐸?
@@waterheaterservices Correction...former Senator Biden.
Amazing how things never change…
In those days they were "the unemployed". Today they are "the homeless".
My mother also grew up in the Depression. She recalled two sisters came to school with ketchup sandwiches and that was it. I'm sure their mother made them with love. Considering the times, they were probably fortunate to have consistent meals.
I was born on 10/22/1932 I've thought about wrighting a book about my life but haven't gotten around to it yet 😇
First you have to learn to spell old timer!
You better hurry
I've been writing mine for over 30 years and still more to go.
Maybe you can write it once you grow up - I'm still trying to figure out what I want to be once I grow up - and I'll turn 61 soon.........oh well there is still time.
*writing
Oh, where are our President Roosevelt's today? My dad was a lifelong Republican but he thought FDR was the greatest thing since sliced bread. We are a blessed nation with an abundance of natural resources. When we are inspired by our leaders, such as when Kennedy vowed to be on the moon within a decade, we can achieve amazing results. But we have to work together to do this and the nation seems to be divided right down the middle on just about everything now.
And it seems most politicians are worried about what is best for themselves and how to get reelected and if how if they are not reelected how can they use their gov. connections and influence to get rich. The heck for what is best for the common good and common man. It really is a shame people don't want to compromise and work together towards a common goal and help out the average joe.
FDR was friendly with Stalin. We never went to the moon.
@@maplenook was Roosevelt not suppose to be the USSR's ally? They were both declared war on by the same enemy, Nazi Germany, they were allies of circumstance, maybe Germany shouldn't have been so war hungry. And how does any of that have to do with a moon conspiracy? Both Roosevelt and Stalin were long dead and gone by then, care to elaborate? We've also been to the moon many times since then.
Watching this in April2022, before big crash is so ominous. 10:34 Look at them, designing the First Reset, and seizing control of the Fed.
Yep, it's terrifying that they're outright explaining their plans. The term in itself means it's on its way
Very, very, interesting & more relevant than some may realise.
My paternal grandparents were financially OK in the 1930s. Grandpa was a doctor. I believe his inheritance also helped him. On mom's side I don't know as much, but know they struggled
A sizable part of the population did well because of their economic situation, and they benefited from the low prices.
With a score by the man who also wrote the music for VICTORY AT SEA,
this documentary appears to be from a 16mm educational film that
60+ years ago would've been shown in high school classrooms.
The crazy thing is that what brought this country out of the Great Depression was WW2.
It was the last war the US ever won.
The depression had almost ended in the US by 1938. Then, the GOP took both houses of Congress, and immediately dismantled much of the New Deal. This plunged us back into a mini depression that lasted until WWII.
There's more to that story too. War is money, and America's claim of not wanting to enter the war was crap. They wanted to make sure that they didn't end up in another depression if they did!
Great economic stimulus with borrowed money.
@@JWRogersPS The Democrats still had a supermajority in 1938. The only thing that changed was that the Conservative Collation (Dixiecrats and GOP) got powerful enough to block anything new, but not enough to block anything already passed.
When my husband was out of work, he believed his job was to look for work, so he would be out from sun up to sun down putting in applications looking for work.
Excellent
What where you doing for a income? Husbands get cancer, broken legs from crazy accidents, develope mental illness etc. This is why its so important woman be educated in order to fully without aide support the family if need be.
My late husband as well. He was a true gentleman! Missing him. (The big C got him.)
🙏🏼🙏🏼
mhm sure my honey
My granfather on my mom's side owned a ranch and worked on the railroad locally. Grandma worked on the farm/ranch and worked full time as a nurse.
Edit: They waited 10 years to have children.
So, those folks did better financially then just barely staying afloat. Sounds like they always had enough food to eat. Good for them!!!
This sure does look familiar, same game different generation
Kevin Guthrie the only problem is back then people just wanted a hand and today people want a hand out. To many don’t want to work!
@@donaldappelhof2059 the only people getting handouts are corporate
Southeastern777 I wouldn’t waste the mental energy to try snd explain, They only want to believe what CNN tells them, Too hard to think for themselves, Besides, All one has to do is talk to those who grew up under FDRs thinly disguised Socialism
republicans answer to disfranchised Americans,, Rugged individualism. aka socialism for those at the top and individualism for all you poor sods on he bottom
Yeahhhh----- I had that deja vu feeling too.
the next depression will make this look like a picnic.
Currently we are in the supression stage. But coming soon will be depression.
Fascinating. And very well told.
Alexander Scourby's voice is an icon.
Current Americans under the age of 50 need to watch these films!
The WPA provided jobs for the unemployed, as much as possible in their career fields. Thus, many counties in the US owe their main book on the county's history to a WPA project ot emplloy historians and history majors in go through the records of their locale and creating a history. Artists were employed to paint murals in post offices and schools across the country. When WW II broke out, those historians applied their skills to military intelligence, and many o fthe artists were involved in camoujfvlage.. Their skills had not rusted during the preceding decade.
I'm always amazed when I visit a national park how much of the infrastructure was build by the WPA or other Great Depression era work programs. For unemployed men, earning an honest dollar and getting a hot meal must have done a lot to maintain a sense of worth.
@@texaswunderkind Civilian Conservation Corps, I walked up the steps they built.
The WPA taught young men a skill AND provided a steady income at the same time. That’s how Roosevelt built our economy back into something great.
Politicians today could learn from his ideas!! I had relatives that worked out west in WPA and CIVIL CONSERVATION CORP, (also called THE THREE C )
All the men that were in it, remembered it fondly. It was great for everybody.
Much of the work that they did still stands today.
The Army NCO's and Officers that supervised some of these programs also got good training.
"People don't eat in the long run, they eat everyday."
He didn't go to the inauguration ball because he didn't want people to see him in a wheel chair!
Most had no idea he was in a wheelchair
My parents grew up in The Great Depression. They had told me at Christmas the kids got one toy. When I was growing up I always got a lot of toys for Christmas. I think that kids growing up in the 50s 60s and 70s were spoiled by there parents this caused a lot of problems as the kids went to college. My daughter who is 11 years old knows how expensive things are. She wanted some designer clothes I told here is $100 by what ever you want she soon saw that I would rather get more clothes than the designer clothes she learned about shopping for bargains. When my daughter was much younger she wanted a Barbie Camper this toy was a peice of junk at Christmas she did not get one but got a 100.00 she did not want to buy it
My daughter had a Barbie camper. We still have it 25 years later. It was not a piece of junk. She is a wonderful adult, physician and giving person whose created two wonderful foundations. Were dead center middle class. You sound like you've A great deal of envy in you towards your child.
@@darrellmortensen9805 Ha! You sound like you have irrational guilt, plus resentment that you feel it! Don't project yourself onto other people's shared experiences & morals, try being an independent thinker. You totally internalized their comment about their own experiences, then lashed out in hate & spite. Hope your daughter's more mature than you, lol, but probably is just as aggressive, bratty & self righteous. Ya'll enjoy each other! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very clever way to teach the value of a dollar, plus common sense. Of course she showed that she's learned that lesson already. Giving really is more fun than receiving, and imho many children grow up with unrealistic expectations in life because their parents cannot resist the pleasure of giving, for themselves. Also imho, in America people largely have forgotten the duty they have to train their children to live a productive, meaningful life. That's out of fashion, and "having experiences" is in.
Criticizing conditions in the safest, richest, most tolerant, best educated society in history is also very fashionable!
Cheers 🥂
I bought my daughter a Barbie Corvette she could ride in with a 12 volt battery. Oh and it was pink. I gave my daughter a better life then I had growing up. Enough physical abuse, very little medical care etc.
@@darrellmortensen9805 Good job Dad for raising your daughter the right way!
And this is way before social media/internet technology. One can only imagine the firestorm that would have been created if this technology had been available at that time.
We'd be a full blown Socialist country by now. As "prosperous" (they're actually starving outside the cities) as Venezuella is. They're the one country the US has recently initiated curbs against to prevent them from easily migrating here. I think it's because they know those people will NEVER vote for socialism ever again once they arrive. Regardless of where in the world they arrive actually.
If the voice of the narrator sounds familiar, it is the voice of Alexander Scourby who also narrated the entire King James version of the Bible.
History repeats to this day.
And so sadly people forget that this happens - that history can repeat itself.......will humans ever learn from their past?
My mother was raised on a farm during the 30’s. They never even knew what the depression was. My father was raised in a coal mining town. They too never missed a single meal.
BUT shirley temple?
They were lucky. God bless my family in Mexico never have the same problem
@@lacuevadegolum9448 I wish my grandfather was alive I would have loved to know what he was doing around this time in Ghana
BUT go to cinema to look shirley temple movies and was hapiness
My great grandfather was a coal miner in southern illinois during the depression.
@4:30 didn't mention that 2 members of the Bonus Army were shot and killed...and Douglas MacArthur lead the charge...*edit, and at 7:40, FDR tried to engage Hoover in a conversation on Inauguration day, but Hoover just sat there like a mope. Charming.
Ken ny and Eisenhower was his second in command.
@@williamsimmons152 You are incorrect, bigly! Kennedy was born May 29th 1917. So how was he there? He would have been 14 years old! RU a tRump voter??
@@BrokeDownBob or the alternative being that the man said Ken ny (as in the commenters name) not Kennedy. What are you a not a Trump voter 😂? Way to self burn yourself and your political team all in one lazy comment.
Ironically, all of the programs Hoover had in mind or that were in the works were adopted and implemented by Roosevelt. It's interesting that FDR surrounded himself with college professors and enthusiastic visionaries - people who had never owned or run a business or a farm. Coupled with a severe drought caused by a particularly strong La Niña, and government interference at all levels (much of which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court - something not mentioned in the video) you have a recipe for a mind boggling cluster flop and a much more painful crisis than was necessary.
@@williamsimmons152 Second in command doesn't mean anything in the Army. Ike never admired Mcarthur, but he was always a good soldier and he saw the need to respect protocol. One reason he was made Supreme Commander in Europe.
Gee whiz, this sounds like current times! We never learned from the past and are now doomed to repeat it.
By the time we figure it out, we’re dead!!!
Well some of us learned just not the people who needed too.
Senator Biden will save us
Yup, not a lesson was retained. We are still printing money and relying upon the cause of depressions to get us out of them.
@@jrgaston8891 This
When your grandparents talk about the "good old days" show them this video.
Indeed. A hard life. But we must also keep in mind that they lived that hard life with far fewer personal restrictions and far deeper social/cultural bonds than the vast majority of anyone in modern times.
@@BuddyLee23 Social/ cultural bonds doesn't pay the bills or keep you out of soup lines.
Both of my parents grew up during the Depression and I don't think that they ever once used the expression "Good Old Days".
@@ronaldmayle1823actually not entirely true. People helped each other more then.
@@KMF3 And people help each other today. Look around you.
Even people back then who had skills to build and repair had a tough time finding work. When the collapse comes this time, it may be a bit different for tradesmen now. So few in our society still have those skills. It will be up to us few to keep things running while paper pushers cry that life is unfair
As a certified master toilet mechanic, [plumber], I approve of this message.
Been remodeling for 20 years so far. While I consider myself more carpenter than anything, I've got at least passing skills in almost every area of building. Always more to learn, but there's very little residential work I can't do. We need a new generation to learn these skills desperately.
That's why society needs to stop pushing college for everyone and promote the trades. We are very short of trades people right now. If you toilet overflows, who are you going to call? A graphic artist?
Paper pushers, influencers, and social media content creators.
My friend, that is so true. If you can’t live without your system working? Call a plumber. If you can’t live without your electricity? Call an electrician. And on and on it will go.
Great score by Robert Russell Bennett, and some amusing in-jokes for the musicians, including "Begin the Beguine" at 11:30 as the New Deal goes into action.
Night and Day
The decade 2 of my grandparents grew up in as children. Born in 1927 & 29 respectively.
I remember life in my thirties. What a s**tshow. Had to work two jobs just to keep my first wife happy. Talk about a great depression.
why is this film about the 2030's in black and white?
Wow! Literally nothing has changed in 100 yrs. Should be called, "Life Without God". How stupid are we?
@@darrellborder8555 They dunno.
Because Joe Biden won the election via mail-in voter fraud in November 2020 and America went into a devastating economic decline when successful people were vilified, history was rewritten by cultural Marxists, and rule of law was eliminated in favor of mob rule by the most violent.
@@JoeBlow-fp5ng There is no way you wrote that 4 months ago.
It was a joke you know?
The dust bowl was a tragedy of drought and over use of the land, a double whammy. So sad. Hopefully we have learned to treat our farmland better.
I don't think so.
The government just poured sludge on the productive farmland in the breadbelt last 10 years. Now farmers say it not producing. Hmmmm
Very interesting, thank you for the upload. Best wishes from Britain.
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Wow, so many names connected with the award winning TV documentary "Victory at Sea" from the '50's. Salomon, Bennett, Hanser, Scourby...
My grandparents lived thru WW1 and the 30's depression. Grandma told me anything they did not own outright they lost. They did have a vehicle and a house paid off before the depression and were able to keep them.
what did they not own outright that they lost?
@@manp1039 investment properties.
By way of hard work and being thrifty, no doubt !
@@paulkish007 what kind of investment properties? did they have loans to buy them
My grandparents owed two homes, both paid for. They lost them both because they couldn't pay the taxes.
My dad graduated from college in 1930 and he and his buddies went to Chicago to work at the 1931 Chicago world's fair he said that they were going for the girls and he said they had a blast! My dad worked for the guy who owned the snake show and he said that the snake show made 3/4 of a million dollars in the middle of the depression that's when my dad began his career in the carnival business he built and owned some girl shows (burlesque) and side shows and got a contract for Dodge car's and had a thrill show that is the business my father began and I followed him and so has my daughter and granddaughter and soon my great grandchildren
This film, "Life in the Thirties," was shown to millions of children in thousands of public schools. It was my first introduction to the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the Hoover Administration, and the New Deal. Lots of memories here.
Jesus, you found McGraw-Hill/CRM Productions without warped audio... congrats.
It was terrible times back then.My Grandparents and parents live through this horrible situation.I always had so much respect for my elders. We are seeing some of this now.Truly that's what needs to happen the bottom needs to drop out so the world can change.
waaaaaaaaay back when the dinos roamed the earth..I was in class while the teacher ran the movie projector..watching her load the film was a highlight of my day cuz it meant an easy day in school..usually...
Yes - we were all very happy if, in elemtary School, our teacher showed up with a big reel of film under her arm = 45min. of peace and fun watching a 16mm film!
You never disappoint!
Holy smoke! You can keep the "good old days", life sucked awful back then
the depression was an equal opportunity of being broke, miserable and poor for everyone...whites families, black families, immigrants, widows, elderly. yep, they can keep that.
Now again the replay of history.
@Southeastern777 The fat lady is just warming up. Wait. Watch.
You see, when Wall Street causes the economic collapse - that’s just capitalism and “the price of doing business”, when Rockefeller monopolizes all gasoline - thats just business, but when farmers declare they’ll charge a cent more for the food they send into the failed cities - that’s illegal.
Please.. 🤣
Did the farmers have billionaires backing them, and lots of lobbyist in congress, no!
Federal Reserve as well.
My grandparents in Dallas had so many old friends and business acquaintances coming through looking for work my Dad and his sisters never knew who would be sleeping on the floor or sofa when they got up for school.
now we know the great depression was caused by the federal reserve....same then as now.
Stack your gold and silver brother. This is the endgame. Well see the final hyperinflation in our lifetimes.
@Bryan Smith There were hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff I bought before stacking silver. Practical and useful stuff for self reliance after an economic collapse. I only reccomend silver to someone who has done the same or will simply keep 50k in their bank and never doing anything with it for decades. I've talked many of my friends out of dumping their savings into silver before they had even done food prep.
@Bryan Smith there is no 'Qanon'; there is 'Q', and there is 'Anon'...and you'd better get listening
@@iant419 what gold and silver? 😶
@@GaZonk100 QTip domestic terrorist alert! #insurrectionhunters ❄️🌎❄️
I heard many stories growing up! A older gentleman told us about eating oysters and pears for weeks.
1913 private control of the nation's money supply: WWI, great and protracted depression, WWII, foreign entanglements of every kind. Gee, what's next?
Beast from Jekyll Island ... right over everyone's heads! Good one GoneBamboo! Vatican = Hittite = Money/Military masters ....
An elderly lady had cans in her house if food that had been expired for years and wouldn't let us throw them away because she lived through the depression and was convinced for the rest of her life it would happen again. She went home recently and I know she will never know hunger again.
If Periscope Films insists on putting that obnoxious counter on every old doc film that they bought, the least that they could do is place it farther down as to be less distracting.
I agree.
What most fail to understand is that the great depression only lasted a few years, not throughout the whole of the 1930s.
This video seems to be as good a presentation of the Great Depression in the US as can be made in 25 minutes - centered on the political aspect up to the 1936 presidential election. I wept watching it. How fortunate the US had Roosevelt as president at this time. Clips from Robert Benchley and Will Rogers were well chosen. Might have had a couple bars of Crosby's "Brother can you spare a dime." I would have had a lot of sympathy for "the Kingfish." For us "little folk," what a horrid dilemma to be torn between the evils of capitalism and those of Soviet communism. And the root of the terrible suffering lay in a vast complex of institutions and ideas that went back 200 years and had never before been encountered by humanity. How could this all be straightened out while coping with life-threatening crises every day? Alas, the positive direction plotted at Bretton Woods, besides being seriously flawed, was overthrown in the 1970s with a more powerful form of finance capitalism and retreat from social responsibility. And that continues to this day, while we lurch from crisis to megacrisis with no leadership with a vision adequate to the circumstances. And yet - how could there be such a vision with the firmly dominant scientific mechanistic materialism being embedded in the design of all institutions, from economics to medicine, education, academic orthodoxy, and the general corporate-controlled culture? Just my 2¢.
The gen Zers (zoomers) will not understand any of your thoughts that you have shared with us. I feel as though we are doomed.....
@@drizzt8965 We may be! Hang in there. Many people, animals, and plants need us. And you never know. ❤
@@kokolanza7543 Thanks! Sincerely love the way your mind works....
"Retreat from social responsibility"? The Housing Act of 1937 provided rental assistance (in1929 80% of the pop. had zero savings, while 0.1%, not 1%, 0.1% held 42% of all the savings held in banks) and the Housing Act has since been expounded to Sect 8, now called HUD housing where one can now own a home with gov. assistance. In 1966 medicaid was established, as well as Food stamps. Now..With 3x's the population of what it was in 1930, there's now only14% of people living in poverty and their rent, full dental, vision, as well as specialist Healthcare, and food isn't considered as income - so that's why they're considered to be in poverty. Higher Education, trade skills, certificates, etc are offered free of charge, as well as discounted/free public transportation. In the state I live in if they are capable they must work a minimum of 18 hrs. to obtain this assistance which they all do. Exactly 18 hrs. Because they’re allowed to OWN a vehicle while on these services so that 18 hrs takes care of the gas and Ins. for it. More than 18 hrs however means they must "asist" in their assistance, with less in food stamps, or a $10 co pay for health insurance. WIC takes care of their children. Poverty is "easy living" with all of this assistance compared to what it was in 1929, I can't even imagine compared to the Great Depression...Perhaps it be considered nirvana? And I can't blame them today one bit for partaking in all that assistance. But I'll ask you...What more could we do? Weekly spa treatments to relieve their stress? Vouchers for 3 free beers at the local pub twice a week to ensure their social needs are being met? What? Now is easy living compared to back then, but simply living, with assistance or without, isn't easy. We all have to work in some way, shape or form to survive. Rant.Over.
I remember FDR drivin through the Green (park) in New Haven. Ct in 1936, crowds cheerin wildly on each side of the street. Looks like the same car in this video. My dad worked in the WPA and took me to work one day to assure me they didn't "lean on their shovels" I'm 95, now.
As someone from CT, this is a very meaningful comment. My grandfather was born in Hartford in '32.
Part one and two of this series is shockingly similar to what’s going on in the past 10 years, and especially recently! I do not understand why the term live and let live can’t prevail on earth.
They were starving to death. People today just want free stuff, a 2000 sq foot corner apartment in Manhattan, and not to ever have to work.
The people today are spoiled, not starving. But don't worry, just like the 1920s high times don't last forever. They'll be forced to work soon enough. If not for democracy then whatever tyrant country or movement destroys it. And then they'll be wishing for the 'good old days'.
It can't prevail, because of the few parasitic psychopaths who can't ever seem to have enough and thus must manipulate the world to get more, ever more, to fill the endless, dark void where a soul would normally reside.
Both Mom & Dad were born in 1932.To hear about the fun they had.The music,& the movies.And the hours they’d talk about the radio.