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re: How brutal life must have* been during the prohibition...
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:31 am to northshorebamaman
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:31 am to northshorebamaman
People got medicinal alcohol from their doctors.
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Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:45 am to Ryan3232
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Nothing is worse than being in the U-boats driving up to Normandy
U boats didn't drive up to Normandy, you frick.
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 5:47 am
Posted on 5/11/17 at 5:55 am to Ryan3232
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What did people do in their free time? a
People around where I'm from busted their tails on farms all day providing for themselves. I'm appreciative off all the modern medicine and technology we have today, but sometimes I envy how much simpler things were back then in some ways.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 6:00 am to Ryan3232
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People didn't have the sort of entertainmen
Ever heard of the invention of the radio? It boomed in the 20's. People gathered around at night to listen to it.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 6:14 am to ksayetiger
quote:sounds like a great time
Ever heard of the invention of the radio? It boomed in the 20's. People gathered around at night to listen to it.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 6:16 am to Ryan3232
Probably better than today, where the tv is on and everyone in the room is staring at their phone.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 6:17 am to Ryan3232
My grandpa and his sibling pulled nails then went to the train tracks to hammer then straight for resale.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 7:31 am to Ryan3232
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sounds like a great time
Compared to the timee before, the radio was considered a great time. The radio changed the world, and cars become way more prevalent. Air travel also came along during the 20's. I bet it was a wild time to be alive, and people didn't really care that much about the alcohol being banned.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 8:05 am to Ryan3232
Those pictures are from the Depression, which had nothing to do with Prohibition. The American economy was pretty much in the tank from just after WW1 until WW2.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 8:09 am to notiger1997
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I asked is it really worse now than in WWI or WWII, etc.
My Dad, who turns 97, next month would laugh at this statement. We have it very, very, very good these days despite what some Democrat politician tells you, and I'm beginning to wonder if this country could survive a 1930's-type depression.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 8:42 am to RocketPower13
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Moonshine and legal cocaine
Do you even Opium Den, bro?
Posted on 5/11/17 at 8:44 am to upgrayedd
Folks couldn't afford grammar during the prohibition.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:05 am to TigerCoon
Bank Failures and The Dust Bowl is what killed the economy but that wasn't until the late 1920's.
We learned a lot about how damaging an unregulated market can be when it crashes. It's great to be at the peak of an unregulated market but life goes "3rd World" real quick when it tanks.
We were very close to reaching depression levels when the financial sector collapsed in 2008. Thanks to the lessons we learned from the GD, Gov't was able to take a series of actions to prevent a complete bottoming out of the economy. Some have seen those actions as a controversial overreach by the federal gov't but if you study it through the lenses of an economist, you'll see they were neccessary.
I'm not talking about actions such as the "Cash for Clunkers" debacle or the auto bailout. I'm talking about the actions taken by the Fed to cap inflation and help banks issue loans in a time where it was somewhat difficult.
We learned a lot about how damaging an unregulated market can be when it crashes. It's great to be at the peak of an unregulated market but life goes "3rd World" real quick when it tanks.
We were very close to reaching depression levels when the financial sector collapsed in 2008. Thanks to the lessons we learned from the GD, Gov't was able to take a series of actions to prevent a complete bottoming out of the economy. Some have seen those actions as a controversial overreach by the federal gov't but if you study it through the lenses of an economist, you'll see they were neccessary.
I'm not talking about actions such as the "Cash for Clunkers" debacle or the auto bailout. I'm talking about the actions taken by the Fed to cap inflation and help banks issue loans in a time where it was somewhat difficult.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:27 am to Tigeralum2008
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We were very close to reaching depression levels when the financial sector collapsed in 2008. Thanks to the lessons we learned from the GD, Gov't was able to take a series of actions to prevent a complete bottoming out of the economy. Some have seen those actions as a controversial overreach by the federal gov't but if you study it through the lenses of an economist, you'll see they were neccessary.
Bill Clinton's subprime mortgage bs is what started this whole thing in the first place. Thanks to the government for cleaning up their own mess.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:33 am to Mootsman
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Bill Clinton's subprime mortgage bs is what started this whole thing in the first place. Thanks to the government for cleaning up their own mess
I unfortunately have but one upvote to give.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:37 am to Mootsman
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Bill Clinton's subprime mortgage bs is what started this whole thing in the first place. Thanks to the government for cleaning up their own mess.
There were a lot of alarms going off that were ignored by the Bush Administration as well.
I agree with your point but assigning blame on a president who left office 8 years earlier merely shows bias on your part. Think about how many times you made fun of libs for blaming Bush during the Obama years...
Also, consumers were to blame for their willful ignorance of how dangerous adjustable rate and subprime loans can be when overreaching for that McMansion
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 9:39 am
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:43 am to Tigeralum2008
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agree with your point but assigning blame on a president who left office 8 years earlier merely shows bias on your part
30 year subprime mortgages don't just fail overnight. I don't think anyone thinks Bush is perfect, but the overwhelming reason for the collapse is the housing crash and that can be placed soley on Clinton.
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 9:44 am
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:59 am to Ryan3232
My grandfather was a kid during the depression. Said the south was too poor to feel it.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 10:18 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
quote:yeah the great depression being during prohibition had nothing to do with each other.....
Those pictures are from the Depression, which had nothing to do with Prohibition.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 10:30 am to Ryan3232
Maybe so, but the old folks in my family, who grew up poor, hardly ever talked about how hard it was. They only reminisced about the good times they had growing up.
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