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positive spin on things I thought when I heard the whole interview.  I hoped that the man was wrong but what he said did make sense and I too believed we were very quickly heading for the second great depression.  This one likely more severe and maybe even longer lasting.  I sure hope that both this guy on the news and me are wrong about this prediction.
    America is now a way different place than when we had the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.  We have a much bigger population now and this population is mostly clustered together in our huge cities.  There are now very few small family farms anymore and instead we have huge corporate farms.  Most people have no idea how to grow a garden or even attempt to take care of themselves.  We as a society are way different now than during the first Great Depression.
    If it happens to us now it will be much, much worse and I believe this time at least many and maybe a fairly large portion of our current population will perish from starvation and violence.  I can only hope that I am wrong and things will turn around quickly and get back to normal.     
    Mortgage payments are being skipped by a large amount of the population but home prices are now so low and financing for a home loan is almost impossible to get anymore.  Technically many homes with former owners still living there are in foreclosure but the banks are no longer kicking anyone out.  It is better just to let them live there with the hope that the economy will turn around and mortgage payments will again start being made.  Wishful thinking by the banks I believe.
    Banks are in sad shape.  There are no ‘stress tests’ being done on all the banks anymore because I’m sure none would pass any kind of a test at this point.  Many on the internet think most all the banks are now actually insolvent but if they closed these banks the nation’s situation would then become untenable.  Better just to let the banks stay open and at least pretend that they are still viable entities. 
    One thing that the banks did do was to drastically reduce the spending limits on all credit cards.  Overnight huge numbers of American citizens found out that their credit cards with large balances on them no longer worked.  It sent another shock through the nation but there had been so many shocks at this point that they now caused little impact overall.  The banks had sent out warnings before they actually did cut off the credit for many people.  Of course most people likely were no longer working and could do nothing about paying down their debt anyway.  Warning or not.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 4
     
     
     
     
     
    The world turned and time passed.  It was good that I had increased the size of my garden.  With very little work now I had plenty of time to tend the garden.  Beth wanted to help with it but gas was expensive and there was no extra money to spend needlessly on gas so she seldom came out to the farm.  She and Betty worked in their own small garden and both theirs and mine were starting to produce some stuff already.
    When I did have a day or two of work in town I always swung by Beth’s house to visit.  I also always brought some food with to give them.  Sometimes the food was from my garden and sometimes it was from what was available in the area when I went out foraging.  They both always gratefully took anything that I brought them.
    As the summer progressed I was busy canning vegetables from my garden.  Many people had gardens this year and everyone’s gardens were now producing viable amounts of the much needed food.  That is when tragedy struck. 
    I was just going out to work in the garden when I had a phone call.  I answered and heard noises on the line that almost sounded like crying.  I said hello a couple times before I heard “My mom…..” then more crying.  I was sure I recognized the voice as being Beth.
    “Are you at