Okay people, get a grip. According to the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, "A
t the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9 percent of the total work force or 11,385,000 people, were unemployed." What's our unemployment rate right now? It's 6.1 percent. Yeah, big difference, right? But you wouldn't know it to read CNN which offers up a load of excrement today in the form of a panic-causing story about people during the Great Depression eating squirrel and having to "catch" their meals. Well, I'd like to clue you in on a couple of things: #1- I know some of the folks who work over at CNN.com and they're very young. I, on the other hand, was born in my parents' 40s and my mom and dad were born in 1924. At the height of the Great Depression, my parents were 11 years old--and my parents (god rest my Dad's soul) wouldn't know how to comment on a blog, they wouldn't even know what a blog was. So, I would suggest to the Honeycomb Hideout Team over at CNN that they check the ages of the people with whom they talk or chat or blog and do the math and see if in FACT that person could actually have parents who were alive during the Great Depression. #2--Hell, there are people in the south who still eat squirrel and they LOVE it. My dad ate it right up until the year he died, 2003. So, while I find the idea repulsive, I keep in mind two things: The folks at CNN very seldom fact check when they pop off with their dire predictions. And, the folks at CNN are fearmongerers of the worst sort. Their ratings rely on panic, as they have shown over and over again. Don't forget that it was the Persian Gulf War and its scud missile threat that actually made CNN a going concern. They know which side their bread is buttered on...or do they? Has it occurred to the ninnies over there that maybe, just maybe, they're also scaring off advertisers with this garbage? May they reap what they sow, and may the rest of us have the good sense not to buy it.