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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (759494)	12/25/2013 4:06:41 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1589916

Actually Joe, it is you who is about as stupid as the human species gets. And you have no idea at all it seems the depth of your stupidity. Read below: unemployment 34% and the aged totally penny less and destitute. Thank god everyone is not as heartless and stupid as you are and came to their aid during the horrible great depression. FDR saved those folks and history has made him a hero for doing so. I pity your kids if you feed them the shit you post. <<Social Security sustains and enhances some lowlifes who didn't provide for their own old age. The force that brought Billions out of horrible poverty was enhancements in productive capacity that occurs best where government is limited to the protection of private property. A simple truth that won't penetrate your incredible stupidity. <Foundations of Change By the end of the First World War, a primarily agrarian American society had become a primarily urban, industrialized one. Thus, on the eve of the Great Depression of the 1930's, a larger proportion of the American people were dependent on cash wages for their support than ever before. By 1932, however, unemployment reached 34 percent of the nonagricultural workforce. Between 1929 and 1932, national income dropped by 43 percent, per capita income by 19 percent. By the mid-1930's, the lifetime savings of millions of people had been wiped out. For vast numbers of aged people, and people nearing old age, the loss of their savings brought with it the prospect of living their remaining years in destitution. At the height of the Depression, many old people were literally penniless. One-third to one-half of the aged were dependent on family or friends for support. The poor houses and other relief agencies that existed at the time to assist people who had fallen on hard times were financed mainly from charity and local funds. They could not begin--either financially or conceptually--to respond adequately to the special needs of the aged brought about by the cataclysmic events of the Depression. ssa.gov