How To Evaluate The Great Depression

Another Great Depression How Devastating Would It Be

The Fifteenth United States Census was conducted in May of 1930, and it was determined that the resident population was 122,775,046, in the United States, which was up 13 percent from the 1920 census. Today there are over 322 million people in the United States. Another great depression would have a profound effect on the country, much more so than in the 1920's and 30's.

During the first great depression, the government was much smaller, much less intrusive. There was no question as to whether you could raise chickens in your front yard, side yard, or backyard, you simply did it without anyone demanding a permit or threatening to sue over the noise and smell.

Back then not having a garden

Dependent to the point that some of not many of us would not survive without either. Technology keeps the pacemakers operational, the dialysis machines running and the tools for complicated surgeries rely on advanced technology as well. In 1920, there wasn't much of a dependency. Cities and towns had accesses to electricity, but few rural homes enjoyed the luxury. If you never had it, you wouldn't miss it, nor need it. Today, however, it's a different matter.

It is not the loss of billions, it will not be the shortage of food, and it will not be violent riots and civil unrest, which kills the most people. No, it will be the lack of electricity and lack of access to technology that will be the most devastating in the short-term, because people will not be able to get their government check, their medical care, and their food stamps, cell phones, free heating oil, and food from food banks, which they so rely on today.

People today don't really know their neighbors in suburbia. It is best not to get involved, not hear the goings on next door, unlike in years past where neighbors were like family. You need a barn raised 30 people showed up with hammers and saws and went to work and the only pay was a good meal at the end of the day that the ladies of the home so happily prepared for the hard working

That is what people did, they cared, and they helped knowing that they too may be in the position one day, and they knew they could count on their neighbors, or even complete strangers in some cases to rally around and get the job done.

Morality or lack of it will kill people today. When groups of people on a sidewalk can step over injured people, victims of a crime or someone with a medical emergency without even seeing them let alone offering help, then people will die by the thousands during a crisis like the great depression because no will notice nor care to stop and help them.

There is more to prepping today than gathering food, equipment, and materials. Most Preppers by nature are giving and are more than willing to share their knowledge. However, Preppers make up just a small fraction of the population today, so to be the only person in the room willing to help means you have a huge task ahead of you. A task you must prepare for along with gathering supplies and learning to live with electricity, natural gas, propane, and