"Maybe tomorrow, I'll be an apple seller too"
from the musical "Annie"- "I don't need anything but you"

Well if we do have a depression, I hope we don't get out of it like we got out of the last one because the next great war is likely to be the "last one"

A depression is a little like a person with a psychosis. Everything still works. The heart and digestion are fine. The nervous system functions and the doctor says, "You're fine. I can't find anything wrong with you. It must be in your head." And it is- but the condition is still debilitating. People still know how to make stuff and do things. We still have plenty of wheat, livestock, houses and health care expertise. But people will go hungry, go without shelter and health care; not for lack of those things but because we have a sick and perverted system that allocates them. But we are not going to overreact this time are we? We are not going to live on "Animal Farm" again are we?
We may have to have another Boston Tea Party but we don't need a hero. We don't need Castro, Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler and we can't wait for Jesus. We need to get involved in our own political process. We need to write to our congressmen- threaten them if necessary. Get on the school board, run for mayor, get educated. The greed merchants ran wild while we sat complacently on the sidelines. I don't think we can let that happen. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom"