GREED

Quote for Today     December 2.  2012

"Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps the first occasion when men succeded on a large scale in swindling themselves."

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929, 1955

Picture on Top: "(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.) Depression: Breadlines: long line of people waiting to be fed: New York City: in the absence of substantial government relief programs during 1932, free food was distributed with private funds in some urban centers to large numbers of the unemployed. (Circa February 1932)"