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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Triban wrote: |
Okay enough Beatles. I agree with asmith fully; I am one of those college grads. After a year of looking for a job in the US and working at a bar in the meantime, I chose to hop on a plane to Asia. I repeat, I spent a FULL year after college with a good resume and professional attire/attitude with no results. It is bad.
Also, the US in the 1930s at least had free soup. |
Do you think it is comperable to the 30s? |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Triban wrote: |
Okay enough Beatles. I agree with asmith fully; I am one of those college grads. After a year of looking for a job in the US and working at a bar in the meantime, I chose to hop on a plane to Asia. I repeat, I spent a FULL year after college with a good resume and professional attire/attitude with no results. It is bad.
Also, the US in the 1930s at least had free soup. |
Do you think it is comperable to the 30s? |
The 30's were only worse because at that time a sizeable percentage of the US population were farmers, and there happened to be one of the worst droughts in US history at the same time. So not only could people not find work, they also couldn't even grow food.
At least in the US... I don't know if there was a drought in Canada too... |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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So it's about his bad now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States#Facts_and_figures
Effects of depression in the United States[23]:
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13 million people became unemployed. In 1932, 34 million people belonged to families with no regular full-time wage earner.[24]
Industrial production fell by nearly 45% between the years 1929 and 1932.
Homebuilding dropped by 80% between the years 1929 and 1932.
In the 1920s, the banking system in the U.S. was about $50 billion, which was about 50% of GDP.[25]
From the years 1929 to 1932, about 5,000 banks went out of business.
By 1933, 11,000 of the US' 25,000 banks had failed.[26]
Between 1929 and 1933, U.S. GDP fell around 30%, the stock market lost almost 90% of its value.[27]
In 1929, the unemployment rate averaged 3%.[28]
In 1933, 25% of all workers and 37% of all nonfarm workers were unemployed.[29]
In Cleveland, Ohio, the unemployment rate was 60%; in Toledo, Ohio, 80%.[24]
One Soviet trading corporation in New York averaged 350 applications a day from Americans seeking jobs in the Soviet Union.[30]
Over one million families lost their farms between 1930 and 1934.[24]
Corporate profits had dropped from $10 billion in 1929 to $1billion in 1932.[24]
Between 1929 and 1932 the income of the average American family was reduced by 40%.[31]
Nine million savings accounts had been wiped out between 1930 and 1933.[24]
273,000 families had been evicted from their homes in 1932.[24]
There were two million homeless people migrating around the country.[24]
Over 60% of Americans were categorized as poor by the federal government in 1933.[24]
In the last prosperous year (1929), there were 279,678 immigrants recorded, but in 1933 only 23,068 came to the U.S.[32][33]
In the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than immigrated to it.[34]
The U.S. government sponsored a Mexican Repatriation program which was intended to encourage people to voluntarily move to Mexico, but thousands were deported against their will. Altogether about 400,000 Mexicans were repatriated.[35]
New York social workers reported that 25% of all schoolchildren were malnourished. In the mining counties of West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, the proportion of malnourished children was perhaps as high as 90%.[24]
Many people became ill with diseases such as tuberculosis (TB).[24]
The 1930 U.S. Census determined the U.S. population to be 122,775,046. About 40% of the population was under 20 years.[36] |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| bassist33 wrote: |
Your reference to Glenn Beck makes me laugh, because that guys is a loon, through and through. The fact that his thought process is broadcast to millions of people scares the ever living sh*t out of me. That fake sobbing and psychopathic blackboard conspiracy scribbling makes my brain bleed. It is because of this man and people that watch his show that I would feel blessed to see a great economic disaster. Then, I could only hope that Fux News would not have the funds to broadcast their their ignorant BS!! |
I know what you mean. I reconnected with a friend on Facebook, and I was reading his whacky rhetoric. "Global warming is a left-wing conspiracy just so that they can use the fundings for government programs." Then I went to his house when I was back in America and noticed a Glenn Beck book. Crazy sh!t, man.
It was easy finding a job for my first two years here. But this time around, I didn't get as many phone calls as before. There be lots of competition now.
Just out of curiosity, O.P. are you a fan of Aerosmith or Adrian Smith? |
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Morgen
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The important thing to remember here is that no news medium EVER blows anything out of proportion, so this should definitely be taken strictly at face value. I mean, look how reasonable they were about swine flu. |
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