Behold one scary mother of a chart:

That’s what numbers looked like during The Great Depression. Most of us, thankfully, were not around during those truly miserable times. But many of our parents or grandparents were. Listen to some of the stories. It’ll make you feel much better about our current state of affairs.

Things were bad, man. Bad.

Famous Dorothea Lange photo. They really had just sold their tent for food.

Poor meant having just sold your family’s tent to buy food. Not like now when poor means having to scale back to basic cable.

Granted, being flip about the struggles some folks today are experiencing is not right. There are real hardships and if one feels totally miserable that misery isn’t mitigated by the fact that someone else’s total misery was experienced differently.

But we must remember that things – as awful as they were during The Great Depression – got better. And they’ll get better from where we are now.

But when? Many of us would like to know. We can deal with ‘the bottom’ if we just knew where the sucker is.

So, today’s poll is: When do you think things will improve?

Take the poll. Maybe we’ll see that more of us look forward with happy anticipation rather than dread. And that in itself may make the rest of us feel better.

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