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’ve 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.
The
reason you don’t 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).
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’t 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.
The
number of people unemployed during the 1930’s is an excellent representation of
the number of households on government assistance during the Great Depression
because 79% of all households were occupied by married couples with 4 people
per household versus 48% married couple households today with 2.5 people per
household. The
unemployment rate averaged 19% during the heart of the Great Depression.
Therefore, approximately 19% of all the households in the U.S. needed
government assistance to feed themselves. That happens to be the exact
percentage of households currently needing food stamps to feed themselves.
