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Did you, or anyone you know, survive the Great Depression of 1929? Would this help in surviving another great depression? Tips on surviving a great depression. Depression Survival Tips

growerotl

My mother was 14 years old in 1929. Her father worked construction, but when the jobs disappeared he moved the family from Florida to his father's farm in North Georgia. On the farm, they grew a field of corn, many vegetables, apples and other fruit, and they had some livestock. For breakfast they would have cornmeal mush. For dinner, vegetables. For supper, cornbread. And they had milk at every meal. They worked hard and ate light, but they survived.
—growerotl

BBB

TO CREATE CONFIDENCE ON INVESTORS THAT IF THEY WILL FALL IN LOSS THEN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT THEM BY SUBSIDY OR OTHER BENEFIT. RATE OF TAX SHOULD BE LOWER FOR PROSPERIOUS INVESTORS. REDUCE PRODUCTION OF UNPRODUCTIVE SECTOR.
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