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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] the Great Depression
I was born in 1930, in New York., right after the 1929 crash. My father
worked on Wall St., for a brokerage house there. He often talked about
some of
the men he knew who worked there who jumped off of high rise roofs when
they
realized they'd lost everything. He managed to hold onto his job until
another financial crash just before the onset of WWII. One thing I
remember
most, that keeps reverberating in my head is an old song, with words like:
"In the winter, in the summer, ain't we got fun!
Summer time is nearly over,
Ain't we got fun!
Oh, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer,
In the mean time, in between time,
Ain't we got fun!!!"
Also, during the Depression era, George Orwell wrote some of his famous
predictive books, like "1984" and "Soylent Green" which -- today -- almost
seem
to have been scary, but true, predictions of the future, as it seems to be
developing today. (Water-boarding torture, secret eavesdropping on
telephones,
etc.)
Phyllis
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