DUmmies Celebrate Their Poverty

[GOBUCKS]

This is one of those rare threads where the DUmmies don't snarl and snap at each other. It's about poverty, and nothing makes DUmp democrats happier than abject, grinding poverty. They love it. They wallow in it. It is the whole basis for their political philosophy. They love it so much, they hate everyone who doesn't share it with them. 

Horse with no Name  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:09 PM
Original message
My Grandma told me that around the times of the Depression
food security was something that was almost unheard of. They had 8 kids so I can imagine feeding a family of 10 would be hard.

They ate lots of beans, lots of cornbread, and my Grandma told me that on Saturdays they would splurge and each kid would get a coke and a bologna sandwich. That was a TREAT. They had a garden and a few chickens.

She also told me she used to bake bread and make a white gravy and many times, this is what they had for dinner, especially in the winter. Gravy and bread. It was filling. Not a whole hell of a lot of nutrition, but in hard times, filling tummies is sometimes just as important as making it to the next day.

Tonight, I made dinner and had white gravy. I crumbled up some bread in a bowl and told my granddaughter about her Great-Great-Grandparents and the Depression. I gave her some of the bread and gravy.
And I told her if she ever grows up and is hungry, this is how they made it through hard times.

In my wildest dreams, I NEVER thought I would have to share this with my children or grandchildren as anything other than anything but anecdotal stories handed down to me. However, I felt the need to share it as a survival tool.

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x877993
I'll bet that kid wishes she could have dinner someplace besides her crazy grandmother's trailer.

Donnachaidh  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:12 PM
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1. Nana told me they used to buy 10 cents worth of chopped meat 
And my grandfather quit smoking to save the 10 cents per pack they cost at the time. I'm actually glad they shared the stories.

DUmmies don't even give up weed. They just go on SSI.

Horse with no Name  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:20 PM
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7. I am too. Seems that maybe they knew that we would need them. 

Losers like DUmpmonkeys are always on the edge of starvation. The economic conditions of the country have nothing to do with the finances of a DUmp democrat.
 

Liberal Veteran  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:14 PM
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2. Strangely, I find myself stocking up on rice, dried beans, lentils.
And Top Ramen.
Just in case.

 
I love Top Ramen. There is no better lunch than a bowl of Top Ramen and a couple corndogs.

Horse with no Name  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:22 PM
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8. I have about 10 bags of beans and a big bag of rice
in the cupboard. I also have flour, sugar and powdered milk stocked up.

These are things that I use anyway...so I won't have a y2k stockpile situation to mess with, but I am feeling very insecure about things these days.

I believe that DUmmy Horse with no Brain, having seen how a useless, uninspired, unentertaining, evil, hateful DUmbass like proud2BDUmb Anne could win the Top DUmmy award, has set herself a goal for 2011. Until know-it-all nadin comes back, she may well be a contender, because she fits exactly the above description of DUmmy Anne.

Yo_Mama (629 posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:18 PM
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5. My greats lived a whole winter
on peanut butter and baked beans. It was all they had.

Let's hear everyone's GD stories!

 
Wallow, wallow, wallow.

A noob DUmmy spins a mini-bouncy:

cameozalaznick (516 posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:26 PM
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10. My grandmother told me about going...
To the "picture show" to see "The Grapes of Wrath." But first they had to take a truck full of cotton to the local gin. The truck broke down on the way. Twice. They finally got the cotton to the gin, but they never made it to the movie. I told her, "You didn't need to see the movie. You were living it."

 

spooky3  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:26 PM
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11. My late grandmother sewed my mother dresses from flour sacks.
My parents have been terrified all their lives about debt. The Depression experience permanently changed them. Unfortunately, they are in the religious right today, maybe partly because of that misguided fear.

Maybe they're just smarter than you.

MadMaddie (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:27 PM
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12. I think that U.S history has been so distorted by the Republicans
that when there is talk about the Great Depression Americans do not understand. Americans don't understand the Dust Bowl, the RobberBarrons, the abject poverty of poor whites and the animal treatment of blacks during that time.

I think that Americans are so used to getting what they want when they want. The overabundance of food and the ease of getting that food.

Americans have collective amnesia...

   

Curmudgeoness  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:33 PM
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13. My mother was born in 1921. Her father died the year she was born
 and my grandmother was a single parent of two when the Depression hit. My mother remembers they lived in an old factory house that was abandoned when the factory closed down. They were squatters. There were up to 10 people living in that house, with several generations. Poaching wildlife was the only meat they ever had. It was a great day when an uncle came home with a raccoon or opossum. They used to walk the railroad tracks looking for coal that fell out of railcars. And if there wasn't coal falling out, the men would jump the car and throw coal out.

Nothing on their table but elbows.

Sonoman  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:43 PM
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17. Sounds like my family in the 50s.
I wonder how we survived.

Now wait a minute, wait just a minute! The 1950s were the days of the real American Dream - the DUmbasses tell us that every day. The 1950s were the idyllic times that Americans today can only dream of. The 1950s were when the rich were forced to pay their fair share (which is 92%). In the 1950s there were no hardships, and DUmp losers lived like kings, because the rich paid a 92% marginal rate. Maybe DUmmy Sonoman's family were rich people.

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:49 PM
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21. Boil chicken giblets, chopped up in gravy on toast, yummy! We kids loved this, my dad
didn't so it was a special dinner we'd get when he was out of town.

Gizzard, heart, and liver are by far and away the best part of the bird.

[Evil_Conservative]

With some brains, start your own stockpile that includes other foods.  Not just rice & beans.  I'd hate to have no food on hand and have something really bad happen where we were unable to afford food.  I've had some people call me "crazy" or a "hoarder" for having a stockpile big enough for our family of three.  If planning ahead makes me a hoarder, so be it.  At least my family will be well fed.

[shadeaux]

I just finished reading that whole thread and thought to myself, where the hell did these people grow up ?

It was like reading a I was more poor than you contest.

I was waiting for someone to say I wore cardboard clothes and shoes.  In my pocket I had cardboard squares with holes punched in them and that's what I ate.  I pretended it was graham crackers. And I was grateful to have that !!

They talk like people are going from house to house begging for food now.

Okay, who believes this :

Horse with no Name  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 10:08 PM

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30. I chased down a man on a Thanksgiving a few years back

 One of my kids was outside and a guy walked up and asked if there was a soup kitchen or shelter in town. There isn't, and I have no idea where the closest one is.

I saw her talking to him and then he started walking East. I asked her what happened and she told me what he asked for.

We hurriedly put together a plate of Thanksgiving food, then put a jar of peanut butter, a loaf of bread, some fruit and a jug of tea and chased him down the road and gave it to him.

As long as I live, I will forget the gratitude in his eyes and in his heart.

The Bible even says this is what we are supposed to do--yet so many that profess the Bible is God's word wouldn't lift a finger to help someone outside of their class.
 

That Horse wouldn't know a Bible quote to save her sorry life much less live by it.

[Chris_]

I just finished reading that whole thread and thought to myself, where the hell did these people grow up ?

It was like reading a I was more poor than you contest.

I was waiting for someone to say I wore cardboard clothes and shoes.  In my pocket I had cardboard squares with holes punched in them and that's what I ate.  I pretended it was graham crackers. And I was grateful to have that !!

I bet it looked a lot like this:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo[/youtube]
(http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-four-yorkshiremen.html)

[BlueStateSaint]

With some brains, start your own stockpile that includes other foods.  Not just rice & beans.  I'd hate to have no food on hand and have something really bad happen where we were unable to afford food.  I've had some people call me "crazy" or a "hoarder" for having a stockpile big enough for our family of three.  If planning ahead makes me a hoarder, so be it.  At least my family will be well fed.

We've been doing this for some time.  Buy a little extra here, a little extra there, every time you're out somewhere, and it adds up.

[catsmtrods]

Funny, when my daddy told me about the depression when he was in his 20's. He would explain how hard he had to work at any job he could find. He mucked horse stalls and cleaned toilets and chauffeured the doctor around at night. He said those were the days when you took ANY job to make a buck. He, his Brother and his Father all had 4 part time jobs and Grandma stayed hame and took care of everything and no one went hungry. Go figure?

[BlueStateSaint]

Funny, when my daddy told me about the depression when he was in his 20's. He would explain how hard he had to work at any job he could find. He mucked horse stalls and cleaned toilets and chauffeured the doctor around at night. He said those were the days when you took ANY job to make a buck. He, his Brother and his Father all had 4 part time jobs and Grandma stayed hame and took care of everything and no one went hungry. Go figure?

The bolded is the rub.  DUmb****s want everything and not to have to work for it.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

This is one of those rare threads where the DUmmies don't snarl and snap at each other. It's about poverty, and nothing makes DUmp democrats happier than abject, grinding poverty. They love it. They wallow in it. It is the whole basis for their political philosophy. They love it so much, they hate everyone who doesn't share it with them.

It's like the thread about men wearing high-heeled shoes and walking a mile to "Walk A Mile in Their Shoes for Rape Awareness."

They prefer to identify with victims.

If you are not a victim you either "won life's lottery" or are a predator.

So they never aspire to anything above victimhood. It's why they also brag about mental illness as if it is something to be held aloft rather than resisted at every turn so claim something greater.

[Karin]

work at any job he could find.

No, it must be in the DUmmies' chosen field, such as underwater basketweaving, art therapy, "counseling," crystals interpretation, or Green Energy.  It must be union with PLENTY of paid time off.  All else is unsuitable. 

The only thing I ever heard my grandparents say about the Depression was depression coffee.  That's when you don't throw away the old grounds, but just add a little fresh to the old, and stretch it out a bit.  They never went on and on about it, but I know they struggled. 

[JohnnyReb]

As a kid I used to listen to the older folks talk about the great depression and the shortages of WW2. They would talk about tough times but they almost always ended the discussion by saying, "Yeah, but we were lucky. We always had plenty to eat."

Being poor and living in the country had its advantages.

[Ralph Wiggum]

As a kid I used to listen to the older folks talk about the great depression and the shortages of WW2. They would talk about tough times but they almost always ended the discussion by saying, "Yeah, but we were lucky. We always had plenty to eat."

And the DUmmies don't have any concept of that.  They're more compelled to donate to the DUmp, spend money on weed, cheetos and high-speed internet, and then cry poor.

[catsmtrods]

That's when you don't throw away the old grounds, but just add a little fresh to the old, and stretch it out a bit. 
I drink depression coffee every day!

[franksolich]

Another primitive lie (unless franksolich is wrong):

cameozalaznick (516 posts)      Tue Apr-12-11 09:26 PM
Response to Reply #5

10. My grandmother told me about going...

To the "picture show" to see "The Grapes of Wrath." But first they had to take a truck full of cotton to the local gin. The truck broke down on the way. Twice. They finally got the cotton to the gin, but they never made it to the movie. I told her, "You didn't need to see the movie. You were living it."

The book The Grapes of Wrath came out right at the end of the Depression.

The movie The Grapes of Wrath came out some years later, after the Depression.

[Celtic Rose]

Another primitive lie (unless franksolich is wrong):

The book The Grapes of Wrath came out right at the end of the Depression.

The movie The Grapes of Wrath came out some years later, after the Depression.

The movie came out in 1940 if my Google-fu is accurate.

[BEG]

A year before my grandparents married (my Dad's parents), my grandma's brothers/sisters, their spouses and my grandmas parents all upped and left their farm in Iowa and moved to California because things were so bad.  Before they moved to CA and after they moved back they ALL lived in one house and ran a dairy farm.  DUmmies have no idea what real poverty is or doing what it takes to survive. My grandma is 98 (born 1913) and even though she is a nosy busybody she would NEVER think of living off the government. 

I posted this cute little old lady's videos in the Spa forum but I'm going to post it here so all the worthless POS DUers can feel shame while they watch her videos.
 
[youtube=425,350]51VhG8MKxJY[/youtube]

   

[true_blood]

Donnachaidh  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-12-11 09:12 PM
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1. Nana told me they used to buy 10 cents worth of chopped meat
And my grandfather quit smoking to save the 10 cents per pack they cost at the time. I'm actually glad they shared the stories.

And if the academic communists running the Country have their way, we'll be living just like them.
Open your eyes, you primitives.