How did the Great Depression affect things we see today?

Question

Did we learn anything from the Great Depression that helped improve economical or political ties?

Answer 1

There needs to be a gold standard.  Today, there are no standards. . .

Answer 2

The Depression created the welfare and entitlement state. Prior to that, the government was much much smaller. Even today, we are paying off the debts created under the Depression (not to mention adding to them by leaps and bounds)

Overall, I think we as Americans today learned very little from the Depression, although the Americans back then learned a great deal.

I recommend the book, The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes as a good new way to look at the Great Depression.

Answer 3

My great-grandparents told me many stories about growing up during the Depression. I suppose you could say they got "welfare" when my grandfather lost his job, but it wasn't like he sat around doing nothing--they sent him to another state to build roads. True, programs were created by the government but I think this was better than having people sit around unemployed and demoralized.

Answer 4

Civic Currency might help This time around someone may have to set it up so it does not happen  again. Another point if history is not to repeat then instead of throwing Neo-n***s in jail then a battle of them before they get strong is necessary. Also a change in attitude so citizens who posses their own cash is not seen as a bad thing.

In The Cold War this was seen as a bad thing to have citizens in posession of monetary capital. Human Hunters with licenses hunting eachother by arrangement as well as with n***s can deal with this while show the skills of those n***s malign. Soldier types and such.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, too much time has passed and the politicians are doing it to us again. Same old trick. They did it again.

And we d**n sure cannot look to the U.S. Congress to save the day. They are out for another of their many, many recesses and vacations. They took the loot and will crash the economy on a bigger scale than the last depression. And no president you choose can overcome such a congress. The hold the purse strings, not the president.

When they ran out of money several years ago, they just starting the irresponsible borrowing and created a collosal debt. The have done it all over again. Just a few fat cats will be living high on the hog despite a depression.

Answer 6

We did as we managed to prioritise our needs and made do without the wants.

But since those days are long gone and the new generation always had what they wanted we start taking everything for granted.  

Answer 7

History doesn't seem to have any bearing on anything.  Consider the Great Depression, it was devastating and we survived it.  We've got moronic young people screaming that we're falling like Rome when, despite at least some history lessons, our country now is at most, uncomfortable.  Consider WWII history, everyone waited until it was a very difficult war and millions of Jews, among others had been murdered.  We're doing the same thing today.  Dems say terrorism isn't a problem.

Answer 8

It forged the Greatest Generation.