{"id":13169,"date":"2015-10-09T05:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2015-10-09T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:59:59","slug":"why-this-feels-like-a-depression-for-most-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13169","title":{"rendered":"Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.\u201d\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression. When you try to tell a propaganda believing, willfully ignorant, mainstream media watching, math challenged consumer we are in the midst of a Greater Depression, they act as if you\u2019ve lost your mind. They will immediately bluster about the 5.1% unemployment rate, record corporate profits, and stock market near all-time highs. The cognitive dissonance of these people is only exceeded by their inability to understand basic mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n

The reason you don\u2019t see huge lines of people waiting in soup lines during this Greater Depression is because the government has figured out how to disguise suffering through modern technology. During the height of the Great Depression in 1933, there were 12.8 million Americans unemployed. These were the men pictured in the soup lines. Today, there are 46 million Americans in an electronic soup kitchen line, as their food is distributed through EBT cards (with that angel of mercy JP Morgan reaping billions in profits by processing the transactions).<\/p>\n

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These 46 million people represent 14% of the U.S. population. There are 23 million households on food stamps in a nation of 123 million households. Therefore, 19% of all households in the U.S. are so poor, they require food assistance to survive. In 1933 there were approximately 126 million Americans living in 30 million households. The government didn\u2019t keep official unemployment records until 1940, but the Department of Labor estimated 12.8 million people were unemployed during the worst year of the Great Depression or 24.9% of the labor force. By 1937 it had fallen to 14.3% or approximately 8 million people.<\/p>\n

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Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People \u201cAnd the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression. When you try to tell a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9710,4637,5144,926,3279,2675,2120,199,2310,9711,9712,248,260,305,5212,383,9713,9714,1458,8564,9715,459,2185,2267,9716,3898,9717,655,9279,1264,1010,9718,5856,824,9719],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-9710","tag-4637","tag-bernanke","tag-bls","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-david-stockman","tag-deep-state","tag-depression","tag-dol","tag-ebt","tag-edward-bernays","tag-employment","tag-federal-reserve","tag-food-stamps","tag-great-depression","tag-greater-depression","tag-hes","tag-hitler","tag-jim-quinn","tag-john-steinbeck","tag-john-williams","tag-joseph-goebbels","tag-jp-morgan","tag-labor-force-participation","tag-labor-force-participation-rate","tag-philabundance","tag-propaganda","tag-real-median-household-income","tag-recession","tag-shadowstats","tag-soup-lines","tag-the-burning-platform","tag-unemployment","tag-west-philly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}