Recession Depression for the Third Time

Around 1829 through the 1840's America suffered a depression when the cotton market crashed due to the ruination of the top soil and the remaining clay being severely damaged; In 1929 America went through a “Great Depression” when the stock markets crashed due to the Drought in the Great Planes creating what is called the “Dust Bowl.” These things happened almost one hundred years apart and guess what? Here we go again just a little earlier this time around. Each time in between we American's have had good crops and abundance of necessary items, yet was any of it stored up for this round of troubles? No not a thing had been done to protect our people. Was anything done to help out should another Drought take place? I don't see any Salt Water Treatment Plants in America, do you? Yet the government is always putting out statements of having to cut back on water due to drought conditions. Salt Water Treatment Plants are the best when one considers the abundance of natural water resources is the ocean and it can solve the drought problems.

In looking at our past History we can somewhat gauge what is going to happen in our future but we can prepare and in some cases even change that future, if only the leaders would learn from our past! It was said “History repeats itself” for a reason folks, and we weren't meant to ignore those reasons. We are supose4 to learn from the past and improve upon those things that needed to be done, not sit with our thumbs up our butts and say “Oh my look at where so and so has put us.” We the people of the United States of America are as much to blame if not more so for allowing this to happen, so no one should get up on their high horse as though they are innocent, that right is only reserved for the children too young to vote or for people to actually listen too that are not yet out of high school.

This time it was at least in part the storms across the USA that took out the crops this time as a natural disaster. Storms that have ravaged us for the past two years straight, then add the inflation and housing on top of that and we have the makings of another “Great Depression” all over again. It may be some time before our crops can get back up and running again if all of this is followed by a great drought to top it all off. Farmers have always been the great foundation of America followed by the various manufacturing facilities. Without these two main things in America we wouldn't be America, people wouldn't have food on their tables, furniture in their homes, clothing on their backs, electronic gizmos and gadgets to play with and to listen to, cars to drive to and from state to state, air planes to fly all over the world in, and oh so much more when you consider make-up, nail polishes, perfumes, colognes, hair-sprays, baby formulas, etc., the list goes on and on.

Every recession/depression was followed by a war but do we have to go to war every time we have severe financial problems? Not this time! We have plenty of work to do right here at home. We have Wind-Mills to make, Salt Water Treatment Plants to make, rebuilding our infrastructure, rebuilding our energy structure, rebuilding our transportation structure, etc.

The problems that come at us will never be exactly the same but the lessons are there for us to learn, take heed and to live by, yet we do not do these things. We are not prepared in any way shape or form for what is going to come at us. We need to begin taking care of business America! We need to learn from our History lessons of the past and create a better more functional future for our children or there won't be one!