I see an economic diasater coming...

[triffid]

So unemployment remains a problem.The great depression had unemployment rate of 24%.It took world war two to bring us out of the great depression.11 % of the USA is on food stamps.If our true unemployment is 20% then we are already in a great depression.The government just hasnt told us yet.They tell us we are in recovery or whatever.You never tell the patient how bad he really is or he just might kick the bucket.triffid

[triffid]

It seems in St.Louis I have been seeing how hard it is for people to survive.People are washing the tin cans their food comes in and selling them by the lb to scrap metal companies for cash.Then everyone seems to be mowing lawns.I have no need to buy a mower.triffid

[triffid]

So sometime this week I wll be cooking out( if its not raining) on my two bricks and iron skillet.I have a ton of wood so I need a proper woodburning stove.Sooner or later Ill get one or make one.triffid

[triffid]

I just saw on the news that a 90 year old man just finished high school and recieved his HS diploma.He had to drop out of high school back in the great deprssion to help out on the farm.I could take that two ways.He finally finished something that he started.And I could really be proud of him.Or Is he insane?Who is going to hire a 90 year old man with a HS diploma?I am 59 nearly 60 who once in a while has thoughts of going back to graduate school.If nobody is hiring new people over 50 what chance does a 60 plus person have much less a 90 year old man? triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

So unemployment remains a problem. ...

Yep, you betcha.
The employment service I visit had a worker there say to someone else that the utilization of the computer room for job searches has increased quite a bit in the last 2 months.  There's a reason for that.

...The government just hasnt told us yet.They tell us we are in recovery or whatever.You never tell the patient how bad he really is or he just might kick the bucket.triffid

Exactly.  They're printing money faster than ever.  It's only a matter of time before people wake up and see that the economy is, in reality, built on a *house of cards*.

Bad social effects after that.

--Lee