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Showing Original Post only (View all)Supply Chain Shortages? [View all]
My uncles and aunts weathered WWII and all the rationing just fine. Radio listening to FDR. No TV in the house. Up at dawn to do farm chores and tend crops. When gas was tight hand tools were used to handle the row crops.
People today worried about not getting their 5th flat screen smart TV, X-Boxes or imported wine for Christmas.
Between the great depression and WWII my uncles in the CCC planted half the counties forest, built the picnic shelters and drill the water wells.
They ate a lot of cabbage and potatoes. Grandpa told me the story of eating the road kill deer he hit two days before Christmas.
Walmart and Target with empty shelves? Society needs to figure out what it wants vs what it needs.
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Lot of truth in that. Unfortunately, nowadays, Biden or any Prez would have a hard time
Hoyt
Nov 2021
#1
In other words, lower our expectations. No thanks. I'm not up for a WWII lifestyle...
VarryOn
Nov 2021
#2
It might not be too long until we wished that we had the lifestyle of those in
Ferrets are Cool
Nov 2021
#15
My dad grew up during the Depression, then served in the Pacific Theater in WWII.
bluesbassman
Nov 2021
#4
i remember walmart used to have signs hahging up all over their store: "MADE IN THE USA"
orleans
Nov 2021
#19
From every story I've read the only things on those ships are Made-in-China toys and appliances
traitorsgalore
Nov 2021
#30