PeakOil is You
We All Need A Short Break From This Topic
by BorneoRagnarok » Tue 01 Mar 2005, 03:36:25
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob_Reloaded', 'I') don't know what you guys are so worked up about. So gas gets a little more expensive. Big deal.
I don't dare to agree with you. No one argued with facts. Let see what is waiting for us around the corner.
http://www.rinfret.com/depression.html from one of the peakoil.com post
Let the old gentleman tell us about our post peak world.
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')Our entire life in the 1930's was centered around money, it was our cross and we bore it day in and day out. It was a cross from which there was no relief.
The memory that I retain to this day (77 years old) is that of my parents crying, singularly and together, about money!
The irony, which I do not understand, is that money per se has never interested me! Go figure that out!
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')On the holidays we never but never had a turkey nor did we ever have anything different and festive. That did change when my father found full time work in 1937 (he had been unemployed for 8 years then) but to this day I cannot stand either Christmas nor Thanksgiving which to me was always an oxymoron!
I recall, as if it were yesterday, our possessions in suitcases on the street and I remember our walking down the street carrying those suitcases just as DID the refugees of World War II.
Nobody else ever gave us a dime or any help of any kind whatsoever. That includes the Federal government, the State government, the Red Cross, the Catholic church and the local community.
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')My father didn't make it. He died of a heart attack in late 1941. Two of my brothers and my sister, all of whom I adored, were psycho cases for the rest of their lives.
My brother, Alan Herve'' Rinfret, was killed in combat around Florence in 1945 just before the war against Germany was won.
My family got kicked in the teeth, first by the depression and then, by the war. They were stomped on, beaten down, psychologically damaged and scarred forever.
The national cry in late 1941 was "You owe us!" meaning that the country had a right to call on its citizens to go to war because the citizens owed the country.
FOR WHAT? FOR A JOB, FOR FOOD, FOR EDUCATION, FOR EMPLOYMENT, FOR HEALTH CARE?
FOR FREEDOM WHICH WAS DEFINED AS THE RIGHT TO POVERTY?
WHAT DID WE OWE A SOCIETY THAT WAS NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE THE CITIZENS WITH THE MOST BASICS OF LIFE?
FOR THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENT TO THREATEN ITS VETERANS WITH RIFLE FIRE AND BAYONETS, AS DID GENERAL MACARTHUR IN THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON IN 1933!
What was the depression like? In the early 1930's:
Eighty-five per cent of the white youths said they were seeking work; for the African-Americans the percentage was even higher at 98 per cent. Fifty percent of the African-Americans had been unemployed for two years or longer
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')# One of my brothers used to open the milk bottles left on doorsteps and in front of apartments, take a sip of the cream and replace the cover.
# One of my brothers used to steal from the F.W. Woolworth local store on regular occasions.
# The local grocer used to ask us, on occasion, to go down into his cellar and get cases of food. We used the occasion to steal something edible and that we never got to eat (peanuts, for example). We would gobble it down while we were in the cellar!
# We walked everywhere and I do mean everywhere. If a trip was less than 5 miles we would walk it.
# We were so proud we never asked for help.
Uhh.... resource tsunami ahead..
When all the rivers run dry, all the forests have been cleared, all the food has been eaten, tell me the value of your money
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