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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:35 PM Original message |
Why did people come out of the Depression with different attitudes? |
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Homer Wells (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. One word--FEAR |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Remember, there's one fear that's well-grounded |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 06:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. Hear, hear. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. A new generation that never stood on a breadline. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. How about moving in the middle of the night because you couldn't pay the rent? |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. A lot of things happened in the 40 years from the Depression |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. A sense of scarcity. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why did people vote for George Bush after Clinton? |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
57. The "Likability Factor" helped Bush. |
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capi888 (819 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. My Parents generation and Mine, did not forget.. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. I used to think a strong middleclass was very important. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I don't buy that reasoning. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. You misread what I wrote. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
35. I guess I'm saying that you don't help poor folk by making more of them. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I think the "middle class" changed where they look for their income. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Good point, and thanks for that tidbit about "priming the pump from the |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. You know ... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I could never live up to the example that Harriet Tubman set, |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Some reasons for the current "fuck the poor" attitude. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. "It's the way things are." |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:41 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. And what were they supposed to do? Curse God and die? LOL |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Yup. It was a time of far more courage than many can imagine. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:46 PM Response to Reply #40 |
52. A lot more economic darwinism that we want to admit! |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:48 PM Response to Reply #34 |
54. Add to number two |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:58 PM Response to Reply #34 |
55. Puritans. They're still messing with this culture. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
36. Priming the pump from the bottom - that works for me! |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. And that's what they're doing. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. There are certainly some of us who are ready and willing to accept |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. It's like telling your children not to do something you know from experience |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Great response! If you have kids, do you have a guess at how |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Sorry, I don't have kids |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. Exactly--sometimes you just gotta have choklit, jist fer fun!! ^_^ |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. I have a good friend who bleeds Republican who was born in Iowa in 1938. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
17. For the life of me, I can't understand why the New Deal has been forgotten. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Even the most "far left" can't seem to champion poverty issues. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. a member of a majority shouldn't feel "left out"... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. As a poor person, I'm part of no majority. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I disagree |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 10:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. As in, "misery loves company"? sigh.... |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:44 PM Response to Reply #26 |
51. more company |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:48 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Please send my best wishes to your hubby! Living in my car, |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
37. That's what I can't figure out. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
27. Part of it was cultural. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:47 AM Response to Reply #27 |
38. A new nugget about LBJ |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:51 PM Response to Reply #38 |
44. I think he knew |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:13 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. I find both LBJ and Nixon fascinating |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:45 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I have always found both |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
29. People are made different, so they think different. |
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nicknameless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 05:29 AM Response to Original message |
30. IMO, the "haves" were quite content with the Depression. |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:07 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Studs Terkel's book on the Depression pointed that out.... |
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nicknameless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:13 PM Response to Reply #33 |
48. That's so true. The further we get from the Depression, the more the facts get twisted. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
32. To many Americans were suffering from the sickness called affluence. |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
39. It's a sense of entitlement |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Exactly. (See my #40 above.) GMTA. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
42. you are talking about a 40 year spread of time. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
46. because now poverty is seen as an individual flaw and not a societal responsibility. |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
56. My take on your post |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:10 AM Response to Reply #56 |
60. Hmmm.... |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:04 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. No. Gen X was never a generation of slackers. |
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unc70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
58. Interleaved populations with alternating tendencies |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:59 AM Response to Original message |
59. Because of what they think they got......... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
62. It's very interesting that Europeans, who, arguably, lived through |
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