Right on the money, Kendall!

I was there. My mother rode herd on my sisters and me and managed to feed us all with a few inexpensive ingredients and her creativity, while my father, a professional man unable to follow his profession at the time due to circumstances, worked like a dog, often having to do such things as road construction under the WPA (a program not favored by the Republicans). Pick and shovel work, but it put food on the table.

We were damned close to the edge most of the time, but my sisters and I never ever worried or felt like we were "poor."

I'm a bit appalled at the current situation and its similarity to previous events. And the similarity of the causes.

Reagan, et al, managed to rescind many of the regulations that FDR instituted, turning the same culprits loose. And here we are!

Quelle suprise!!

Don Firth