Stories From The Great Depression

Instapundit linked to this NY Times article about how people survived the Great Depression. I grew up on stories like this, and there is no comparison between then and now. Back then, there was no welfare, WIC, food stamps, and all the other entitlement programs there are today. And back then, all able-bodied people worked, or you had no money and no food. The most amazing book I read about the Depression was "The Worst Hard Time" , and compared to eking out an existence in the Dust Bowl, we all have it easy today.