Saturday, November 15, 2008


A Depression-Style California State Budget - California Progress Report: "A recent story on the Depression in the Washington Post discussed how the Depression first entered American households, such as the day people switched from electric lighting to cheaper kerosene lamps, the day beans replaced beef on the dinner table, and the day extended family members moved in. The most grisly story in the article was in 1932 in Detroit, when the city shut down its zoo and slaughtered its animals to provide food for a starving population."
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Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There would be a silver lining here since most Americans are overweight could stand to reduce their meat intake.