What were the causes and results of bread lines?

The Great Depression - in the absence of substantial government relief programs during the 1930s, free food was distributed with private funds in some urban centers to large numbers of the unemployed.  These long lines where people stood and waited to be fed were known as breadlines.

The reason breadlines existed is simple: By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933, the unemployment rate hovered close to twenty-five percent. Fluctuating during the 1930s, it never fell below 14.3% until 1941. No work meant no paychecks, and that meant no food to feed yourself or your family.

My father used to tell me about how embarrassed he was when he had to stand in the breadline with his mother, he used to tell me that even if he was starving to death today because of that memory he wouldn't stand in a breadline, or go get free cheese from the government, or go on welfare. 

The depression changed the family in dramatic ways. Women who always stayed home to take care of the children often had to try to find work to help make ends meet, some men couldn't handle the fact they weren't able to take care of their families like before (men were always the breadwinners) so some men just walked out on their families completely. A 1940 survey revealed that 1.5 million married women had been abandoned by their husbands.

My dad's father didn't walk out on his family, he died when my father was only 4 years old, so my grandmother had little choice but to stand in those breadlines because she had 7 children to keep fed.

Very simple. The world's economy is controlled by about 300 people. They turn off the money supply from time to time to create fear and anger in the masses as a prelude to a major world wide war. World wide wars are fought to keep human population in check and to allow various corporations to make enormous profits, settle scores and balance books.

Names like Rockefeller and Rothschild are well known and most people understand that despite anti-trust laws that many corporations are blatant monopolies, while other monopolies exist through a shadowy and spidery network of corporate entites and subsidiaries, charities, foundations and trusts.

For some peculiar reason the average person is unwilling to challenge the status quo of allowing 95% of the world's wealth to be concentrated in less that 1% of the populations hands. I suppose that stems from the fact that politicians and courts are unwilling to challenge this even though the only reason they don't challenge it is because of bribery and extortion.

So when there get to be too many of us and resources won't stretch you have what you have today. A depressed world economy bordering on collapse and a lot of media coverage hyping being angry at someone like Muslims as the powers that be plant and nurture the seeds of who they would like us to fight to help kill each other off to lower the population back to managable numbers.

It will always be that way until humans learn to keep their own breeding in check and limit their footprint on the planet.

I am not really sure, but I would think that it came from the great depression era, when people just couldnt aford to but groceries and bread was given out because of the panic that it caused.  I would aso like to know the answer to this one.  The way prices are in the stores, they could use it again among other things.  Why cant they put a price freeze on some of the items that you buy?

I would Have to say both Dyiana's and Morethan1's answers are good and close to the point. The depression was more that just a down financial market.  Many portions of our farm land was being destoryed by weather and by poor land management. Include high transportation costs or to so some areas lack of transportation.   Much of our food problems were in the Midwest Section (the bread basket) of the United States and the east cost.  In order to feed the masses we began to set up food distribution centers.  Much like today in some Middle Eastern countries.  In Haiti it is only worse, one of their basics have become (no humor intended) mud pies made with dirt, water, cooking oil, and possibly corn or corn meal.

Once again though a part of the problem is the cost of transportation.  Also to increase profits more want to sell on the International Markets, or shall be say greed.  We could also increase so many of the one use only grains developed by Dow Chemical, and Monsanto and their likes.  Where at one time we used a portion of the havested grain for the nest season. With and of the current crops growns we no longer have that option. New grain must be purchased every year. 

Using our religious texts, the Bible, during the good years we were to save the grain so that every 7th year the land could go fallow and nothing would be grown.  But so few Americans as well as other countries grow every year and refuse to save for this event and other weather related events.

As we ignore God, we ignore more of his teachings, we strive to conitually over produce in every aspect of our economy.

And what have been the results of ignoring God's Laws?  Well we haven't save enought food to feed the world, America used to be the worlds leading producer, With high energy we can't transport what we can grow, and because grains and fertilizers or one longer natural things we can't afford to buy what we need to even feed ourselves.  Basically turning over more land and more water rights to Big Agra Business. And with out enought to eat and enough clean water we bring back the disease and pestilences thought to be eradicatied and devolope new ones we can't control.

A quick look at Zimbowie (sp?) . Once considered the bread basket of Africa, after taking the farms away from those who knew how to run the big argra farms, then going through a period cleansing, they have nothing, no food, no clean water, and a population being eaten alive by the plague.  Their government denies the disease, instead allowing and forcing the sick to leave the country to infect more and more, and all the while people (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and the African Union) sit back and do nothing.

I hope this has helped answer your question concerning the causes and the possible results of bread lines.  As for now, our only hope is GOD, the Almighty.

Morethanone told us,

The world's economy is controlled by about 300 people. They turn off the money supply from time to time to create fear and anger in the masses as a prelude to a major world wide war.

Thank you, More and Pravda.  I suppose we needed more leftist paranoia, deceit, and prejudice.  Like a hole in the head!

Obama's "fiscal policy" will create breadlines, all right.  We will come out of this madness so disgusted with black people that the KKK will gain polularity, and our economy will continue being unfair and severe until we do what China did.

After half a century of communist atrocity and blame-fixing, China came out of communism -- their darkest age ever -- to a free-market economy that is both robust and humane.  It took them awhile to come to their senses, but they did, to everyone's immediate and long-term benefit.

More is gone now (thankfully) so we don't have to suffer his prejudicial games anymore.  But as you travel America, be aware that paid Communist Party advocates constantly patrol our Greyhound bus stops, trying to stir up bitterness and hatred against America as Hitler and Mao did.

Some people are just not very bright.  Communists have to be the densest cult that ever existed, and probably the most insulting.

When you are out of a job and your family is out of a home, remember to thank a communist for it.

Why cant they put a price freeze on some of the items that you buy?

Because price freezes don't work.  Freezing prices on certain commodities only forces other related commodity prices to fluctuate disastrously.  Freezing the price on fuel, for example, allows the worst price gouging that exists because wholesale prices go down shortly and the retail price stays at a record high until the freeze is lifted.  Then a "reflux panic" sets in that causes other "economic ripples" that in turn drive retail prices up again.

The one exception to that iron law was when Reagan froze the price of gasoline $1.25/gallon, allowing for inflation.  When Saudi oil magnates found out that they were not going to get more money by gouging for oil, they cut production by a third.  We reopened our domestic oilfields, and kept the price at a stable $1.25/gallon for the next five years.  By that time, market conditions allowed relaxation of the freeze.  Clinton revoked the freeze entirely, and the price of gasoline shot through the roof, if you will recall.