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| The 2009 Depression | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 19 2008, 08:23 PM (155 Views) | |
| Jolly | Nov 19 2008, 08:23 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/16/depression_2009_what_would_it_look_like?mode=PF |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Riley | Nov 20 2008, 07:42 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Very interesting article. |
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| big al | Nov 20 2008, 08:03 AM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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Some food for thought there. I believe that at least initially, it would look like the mill and mine towns around here when the mills and mines closed down. People hung around for awhile making ends meet as well as they could. Younger people moved away to where they could find work. Older people and homeowners hunkered down. The retirees tended to stay and make up a significant part of the the remaining population in those towns. Others were forced out when the sheriff sale came. Most of these towns had large sections of abandoned buildings that now, almost 30 years later have given way in many cases to empty lots. The difference would be the absence of places like the Sunbelt to go to find more opportunities. The hunkering down and the economies of more people living together would lead to the pooling of extended family resources to try to make ends meet. Those most at risk would be without such ties and would be comparable to the hobos that wandered the country during the 30s. Some would turn to crime, some to despair. The ability or inability of our society to provide basic sustenance to people would be the crucible testing the bonds of civility and law. The great rise of the various "-isms" that permeated the decades following the Great Depression were the answer of some societies to those issues. I personally think we made wiser choices in the USA in how we dealt with it and hope we do again, should the circumstances require it. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Mikhailoh | Nov 20 2008, 08:06 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yes indeed. Let us hope we don't get to test it's ideas. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Phlebas | Nov 20 2008, 08:22 AM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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Al, that was a great post, and i agree with a lot of what you said. (the banner ad at the bottom of the page is for "Great Fares to India") |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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