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HockeyMom

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8. My Grandpa picked through the garbage of the food store

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Jun 12, 2014, 03:44 PM

Jun 2014

he worked for (lucky to even have a job?) and brought it home for the family to cook for dinner. Remember, this was WITH wages, which all went to paying the rent. Let's end the Minimum Wage? Dad told me all this and how they would tie rope around their falling apart shoes to keep them on their feet. This was in NYC and my Grandpa was an EDUCATED man from the UK.

My Mom's Italian/American NYC family didn't have it as bad in the Great Depression, but their livelyhood was involved in ILLEGAL activities.

Graw your own conclusions on both sides of my family.

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Do people who lived through the "great depression" forget what it was like and did they forget to [View all] kelliekat44 Jun 2014 OP

I don't know kelliekat JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #1

Could be shenmue Jun 2014 #2

My parents were children during the GD. Skidmore Jun 2014 #3

Most of the people who lived through the great depression are dead, dying, have dementia, etc eShirl Jun 2014 #4

My dad grew up in the Depression. no_hypocrisy Jun 2014 #5

My grandparents NEVER forgot NickB79 Jun 2014 #6

Most of the people I know (or knew) who experienced the Depression The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2014 #7

My Grandpa picked through the garbage of the food store HockeyMom Jun 2014 #8

I was born in 1941 so it was not so bad then but I do not think they forgot. They lived frugally and jwirr Jun 2014 #9

We didn't stick together and try to help one another. The right was just as idiotic then as now. Squinch Jun 2014 #10

I'm not all that old (under 50)... Cooley Hurd Jun 2014 #11

Consumerism. Barack_America Jun 2014 #12

Most of them are no longer around, and no, they didn't forget... joeybee12 Jun 2014 #13

I think the "good years" of 1945-75 blurred their memories starroute Jun 2014 #14

I think you're on to something there Art_from_Ark Jun 2014 #20

Dont you dare lay this at the doorstep of the generation that survived the First Great Republican rhett o rick Jun 2014 #15

That attitude predates Obama's election. JoeyT Jun 2014 #16

Yep... LeftInTX Jun 2014 #17

My grandparents on one side basically voted the same way. JoeyT Jun 2014 #21

My thinking is that the GOP knew that, as the greatest generation aged, those people coming applegrove Jun 2014 #18

To live through the depression you had to be born before 1930. kickysnana Jun 2014 #19

A couple of things: kiva Jun 2014 #22

People who were old enough to remember the Great Depression as teenagers Warpy Jun 2014 #23