Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Great Depression

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” - Milton Friedman, economist
Today I recommend reading a NYT story called Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression. It's nice to see the media reporting something factual instead of exaggerating the economic recession into a depression.

The NYT article contains first person accounts of individuals who experienced the Great Depression. Some stories surprised me
  • The gizzard of a chicken is good eating?
  • Possum meat is unappealing?
  • You can pluck a live goose
  • You can not darn synthetic socks?

Bottom Line

A common theme of the accounts is waste nothing, recycle & reuse.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Tiffany Wacaser said...

I'm trying to imagine what it was like to pluck a live goose. My own experiences with live geese have been less than positive. I was once held hostage on a haystack by a rather irate goose. The person who plucked the goose must have been VERY desperate.

April 7, 2009 at 6:01 PM  
Blogger Gary W Kibble said...

I agree. Geese are mean!

April 7, 2009 at 9:34 PM  

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