Lc jones got it right. We have no concept of how the depression effected the people physically and mentally.
My father walked from Oklahoma to the Mississippi seeking work.
He saw the Mississippi clogged with dead hogs and flowing blood red.
The govt was killing livestock through out the nation, trying to make livestock marketable.
My father never forgave FDR, "didn't he know people were starving.'
FDR tried many programs, a lot of failures, but a lot were successful.
Prior to FDR congress believed it was business that had to pull the nation out of any recession or depression.
We are blessed, very blessed, even with the A-bombs, the failing society,
... beats going to bed Hungary
The only film we have were those artistic types that FDR but to work filming what they considered of value.
It was bad, real bad.
FDR tried, he was the only one concerned,
My parent's were penny pinchers till the day they died.
They did not believe in frivols purchases: cornbread, taters, a tad of meat... save, save, it could happen again.
I'm a semi-student of the depression, information is limited. The govt has a lot of documents, but they don't give the actual situation.
"The Grapes of Wrath," is about the best book of the people.
