THE GREAT DEPRESSION
THE GREAT DEPRESSION: now in color!
(Wall Street)
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It’s cute, but thinking about it makes me depressed…
Oh wait–
I forgot some “First!” comment.
*looks at investment portfolio* *sighs*
*is a sad panda too*
im in 8th grade and i get this its a joke saying how america is in a great depression now -.-
Where did you get that picture of Wall Street from 1979?
If you look closely, you can see an investment banker jumping out the window.
Hope he hits a CEO.
WIN!
Seconded.
It looks recent to me–it’s got the post-9/11 barricades up around the entrance.
lololooloololoolololooloolololo
I voted for Bush, btw. Sorry : (
Burn, witch, burn!
We can’t burn lollollllloololololoo yet. First we need to see if he weighs the same as a duck.
XD
“He turned me into a NEWT!!!”
“A Newt?”
*Long pause*
“Well, I got better.”
ohhhh snap
Perfect and just what I’d been thinking. Perfect mix of economic difficulties and agricultural changes for todays world. I was just watching Grapes of Wrath and thinking this and here is a LOL, perfect and adorable saying for such a hard topic but one we should think of, so we learn our lessons from the past and can use what we learned to make our current difficulties easier to solve, or at least, endure, depending on your place in the scheme of things.
The difference now of course is that we know about soil erosion and how to prevent it.
Yes, but do you know what the QUEERS are doing to the SOIL?
Yep. And it’s hot.
and disgusting.
That closest getting a bit stifling yet?
He’s stuck. He can’t find the key to get back out.
don’t forget what’s being put in our groundwater that causes rainbows to develop….
Ah but our economy and food supply is based on moncultural crops, and large transportation. With the costs of fuel, and changes in weather patterns, there are problems in some parts of the monocrops not doing as well, or in other places of crops rotting in the field because its not cost effective to harvest them. This is indications of some problems!
Have learned enough to be able to change our agricultural structures to accommodate changes, is the question– scientifically we know a lot, but can we apply it?
*ahem* colour…
… And high definition all-digital quality!
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
And as we all know, high school history test scores are so low, we’re pretty much screwed. Off to raid small villages with a longship and drink mead!!
it takes a viking to raze a village
in bed
Just remember to pillage *before* you burn.
Viking is a noun. But they kick ass anyway !
The noun Viking came about from the verb ‘to vike’. Viking is what htey were doing. But it quickly became associated with who they were, so they got the name.
Actually, in Old Norse, it stems from Viken, a Norse region. The verb probably came from that.
It was in Old English that the word was most often used as a verb
Last time Sven got a nasty rash but I had warned him and now you have too.
Magna tak ! (thanks a lot)
Anytime.
lol lol lol
“History doesn’t repeat itself. But it does rhyme.” — Mark Twain
Sad…..
But clever!
We are still far from a Great Depression style market crash. The United States did not have a global economy back in ‘29 so it may not actually be possible unless the whole world were able to tank simultaneously. Of course people who believe that a president (or presidential candidate) can change the economy in 4 or 8 years is like believing throwing some alka setzer in a volcano will settle it down.
You mean that doesn’t work? :<
Nope. You gotta use virgins.
Virgin Alka seltzer.
Wait – hasn’t Dubya just managed to do that over the last eight years? Or have you managed to erase him from memory already, in which case can you let us know how you did it because I would like to forget him too.
So you’re saying that this economic issue has been in the making for more than 8 years? Perhaps it was during the 6 years before that, when the Republicans had majority in Congress.
It’s simple, really. If the economy is tanking, one must look back to find the root cause. One must look back far enough to find a Democrat. If the economy is doing well, one must find a Republican. Get it? Good economy: Republican. Bad economy: Democrat. Because Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, see?
Except for all that, y’know… evidence.
I’m pretty sure it was a combined effort.
Bush entered office just as the dot com bubble burst. The attack on the WTC did further damage to the economy. So okay, he didn’t get dealt a perfect hand.
On the other hand, he didn’t really play the hand he was dealt very well. He decide to hold a 9 and an 11 and bluff. When Enron imploded he had a chance to fix things, or at least send a message that that sort of economic rape would not be tolerated. But he didn’t even try.
That is a great analysis. It explains the continued housing bubble expansion and its deflation right around the time of Kenny Boy’s perp walk. And you are right, he didn’t try, but to give him some credit, would he have known what to do?
“would he have known what to do?”
I think that’s where those wonderful staffers called advisers come into play. of couse, Dear George has not shown a propensity for heeding their advice anyhow…
He’s the president. It’s his job to know what to do or find someone who does. I think the real problem is that it didn’t even occur to him that there was a problem.
We did have a global economy in ‘29. After the Great War we had a lot of influence and power in the German economy, but because we were restricting so much of their production and GDP, they were hit so much harder and sooner than the U.S. And the ‘29 stock market did include companies from Great Britain, France and Italy as well. We sure did have a global economy, and the crash did hurt other countries as well. Perhaps you’ll remember the famous picture of the German woman with a wheelbarrow full of money that she was using to fuel the fire to heat her house, because the money was pretty much worthless? Or the one of the man who was using the paper money to wallpaper his house because that was cheaper? Much of the Western world tanked in ‘29, which helped to lead to rise of the Third Reich. It is possible for much of the world to tank again.
Once again, you are a dolt. A few foreign trading partners is not a global economy. Your severe oversimplication of the facets of the Weimar Republic that led to the rise of the Reich is astounding. Your giving too much credit to the US and not enough credit to me. Now, onto the train with you.
HA HA HA HA Er uh um…. HEIL!
I said it helped, not that it was the sole cause. Also, the entire history of the rise of Hitler to power doesn’t belong here nor is it pertinent information. The point was that the Great Depression did happen in places other than the US because we were a part of a global economy, even if the influence was smaller than what we have today.
Also, having foreign trading partners is part of a global economy.
If the economy had nothing to do with it, then there was no reason why Hitler’s attempts at power would have been more successful after the great depression than before it (See: Beer Hall Putsch).
SILENCE! Your papers, please!?
Oh a president can CHANGE an economy in 2 terms. It’s not hard to fuck one up. FIXING it is much harder
Let’s go back to the barter system! Much less trouble.
Ok! I’ll trade you 5 lines of computer code for an orange.
…yeah, I’m screwed.
Yeah, pretty sure we’d have to give up the computers and start raising goats and chickens…
But it would be well worth it!
My grandma actually told me “If we ever had another depression, raise chickens! Then you’ve got eggs, meat, and you can barter. Your jobs will be worthless then.”… Ah, grandma. I think that was the alzheimers talking, but I’ll never forget that traumatizing advice at age 7.
You think that’s bad? When I was seven, my grandma advised me that if we had another great depression, I should become a gigolo.
Haha, my grandma was too alzheimered out for most of my childhood, but she lived through World Wars I and II in Serbia/Yuegoslavia, so she would more often be preparing for the next war she was sure would happen and freaking out about us going outside.
She also told my sister she shouldn’t go out after 8pm because the police would think she was a bad girl and stop her.
I will hire you, I like them young and dumb.
My Grandma gave me recipes for condiment sandwiches.
I was scared of my Gran after what I saw her do to a chicken with that ax. It was awhile before I ate chicken again. We always wondered what really happened to Grandpa !
lol like mayonaise and mustard sandwiches? I ate a crapload of those growing up -__
If you rotate goats (who eat the grass and weeds) to chickens (who eat remaining plants and bugs from the goat poop) to crops (which grow fat on the composting goat and chicken poop), your land will be extra fertile (so long as you don’t grow corn exclusively) and those eggs will be so f*cking good…
Oh I would love to do that!! Stupid city won’t let me have any, I don’t see why not my yard is huge and if we are going to have a recession/depression it would take a huge burden off people if we could grow our own food at least.
There’s many an empty lot of building I’d love to raze to topsoil.
You know, the reason why we had city parks and town greens was to have a common area for grazing…
guerrillagardening dot org!
n8, you’ll always have a job fixing computers as long as people are stupid enough to buy Vista.
Heh, if I ever end up doing tech support for Vista, I’ll be elbowing stockbrokers aside as I speedily make my way out of a 50th story window. Fortunately I’m not in the tech support business… requests for my help usually are answered as follows:
1. *sigh*
2. *eye roll*
3. Here, let me do it…
4. See? Was that so freakin’ difficult!?
5. *mutter under breath*
6. *return to previous activity*
You need that shirt that says “NO, I WILL NOT FIX YOUR COMPUTER”. Head them off at the pass.
I believe everything happens in cycles. There is no straight path. And it doesn’t help when People like to blame whatever party is opposite of them, no matter the facts. This economy will suffer no matter who the new president is, because nobody knows what to do. It’s a shitstorm of idiots on parade.
I don’t think Bush, nor any other president, was physically giving out loans to people with bad credit. The mortgage companies were responsible for that, and their own greed took advantage low-income and middle class people. I do also think that outsourcing lead to higher unemployment in the US, which in turn means more people without jobs and high interest rate mortgages to pay. Unemployed people who are not independently wealthy obviously cannot afford to pay off their loans from the banks/mortgage companies without jobs. This has been a growing problem, and is growing exponentially.
What Bush is responsible for is taxing the shit out of us and pouring it into foreign counties’ economies and war overseas. He should have kept it in his pants a long time ago and done the right thing, which I don’t have any power to know what the right thing exactly is at this juncture, but I know what he did was not the best approach. But what can you expect from a corupt political retard running the country?
Back on track…
It will take many years, more than any presidential term, to recover all the debts people have incurred over the last decade. We cannot build a society or economy based on credit. It will take more than 700 billion dollars to bail this country’s economy out of debt, and a lot more time. Government is obligated to its country to limit outsourcing, create more jobs, promote local economies, enforce lending restrictions, and begin a rebuilding of the United States the right way. Stop paying for shit overseas, and spend our money within our own country.
It’s not just the government who has to make long strides to rebuild. Each of us as citizens need to be more responsible with spending, realize debts and not put pressure on ourselves by owing every bank and loan company in the US thousands and thousands of dollars for crap we really don’t need. Settle for a smaller house, used car, fewer toys, and dine in. We owe it to ourselves and need to work together.
** long pause and sight **
Sorry for my rant. I think I need a drink…whiskey anyone?
You could have stopped with “shitstorm of idiots on parade”. I’ve watched politicians claim to know “the answer” for half a century and continued to screw it all up. Drink? Drinking one’s self to death is not romantic,as some movies depict but it sure seems attractive now. Absinthe anyone?
Got any Maker’s Mark? I’ll join you for a drink.
Priceless! I snickered.
Are you scared enough to give us all your money yet? DEPRESSION! GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE! How about now? STAGFLATION! GAS RATIONING! How would you rate your current fear level, on a scale of “piss off you wankers” to “here’s $700 Billion, make it stop!” ANARCHY! CANNIBALISM! And now? How’s that fear now?
Seth honey, use your inside voice dear!
ROFL!!!
Wait, I thought we were supposed to be scared of ter’rists… who are we afraid of today? And which of my liberties should I give up to the government in order to feel safe?
I nominate sacrificing the 3rd Amendment.
Mommy make it stop!
Hope ! Change !
Chope!
Honge!
“America will be the only nation to drive itself to the poorhouse in an automobile”-Will Rogers
that’s a win as far as i’m concerned
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