Millennials today are living in an era worse than the Great Depression, but they don’t even know it, says Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
One of the reasons why Millennials would be oblivious to an economic depression would be that, when they look up from their smart phones, there are no long lines of men in bedraggled clothing standing in line for a bowl of soup, like the black-and-white pictures from their history books.
This is because, Limbaugh explained on his radio show this week, today in America’s, you can be poor and making no money, but still go and get your nails done each week.
During the Great Depression, there were 12.8 million unemployed Americans (the men in the soup lines) which at the height of the depression amounted to an estimated 24.9% of the 126 million U.S. population. Back then, there were no food-stamps or government programs to keep these people in houses with their cable TV’s. They stood in line because they relied on private charity to aid them. Thus, the infamous textbook pictures of men in food lines and little children with sad faces that carry the connotation of a great depression.
Today, 19% of the 123 million households live on food stamps, 46 million are unemployed and 94 million are not working. These numbers, even with the population difference factored in, reveal that today there are far less people working than during the Great Depression, the supposed worst economic crisis America has faced thus far.
If today’s numbers are worse than the Great Depression, why isn’t there a widespread uproar and emotional photos like those black-and-white ones of the soup lines?
The answer? According to Limbaugh, big government and the handout mentality.
“If you can eat and have a house and a big screen and a cell phone without working, who in the world is paying for it? Back during the Great Depression, if you couldn’t pay for it, you didn’t have it.”
As the federal debt keeps souring beyond 18 trillion, Democrats continue to promise benefits from the government, pay people not to work, all contributing to this “silent depression” that Millennials don’t see, but will some day, inevitably, have to pay for.
