Another Great Depression?

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*snip* it is teaching people how to live 'simply' and with less things. It's getting people to ride bikes to work, hang laundry out to dry and grow tomatoes where ever they can. It is getting people to look at solar energy and alternative energy a little more seriously. Maybe this time we will follow through?

I agree 100%. This year I have really been learning how to can, freeze, and preserve just about everything I grow, and I put in a much larger garden this year. Next year's will be even bigger. I do hang laundry on the line - I actually enjoy it, somehow it doesn't bother me as much to fold laundry as I take it down as it does to pull that big wad of clothes from a dryer. When gas hits $5 a gallon, I hope I'm in good enough shape to finally ride up that mountain for the place I work at on some weekends. It may be brutal, but at least the route home is cake.

*snip*As far as the FDIC that is one I sometimes don't understand- the banks I have my money in, if they went under, and my $100K was still in the vault, how is the FDIC going to get it for me? That is the part I don't understand, if things are that bad, how is the FDIC going to make everything better?

As I understand it, the FDIC can return your money to you anytime within 50 years or something like that. They aren't under the gun to give it to you during your lifetime.