Once again you are romanticizing misery and suffering
People were not dependent on the system back then because there was no system. You got sick and lost your job? Too bad for you. The factory in town closed its doors? That's your problem. Hurricane or earthquake? Don't look to me for help
. What's your point ?? People helped one another back then (you claiming they didn't ?), and they have always done that in America, but the government tried to take the job over due to the growing problem of independent greed that was evolving rapidly in the wrong directions, but like with everything they do though, they went and made it far worse than it could have ever been, and it has been proven through out various time periods now.... Otherwise it should have just stayed the hell out of it for the most part, and if it did get involved, then bring everyone to the table for a solution instead of becoming a government run dictatorship that leans in the direction of the helpless forever dependent upon government lefty's.
People did help each other back then
Somebody in your neighborhood got sick....everyone would pitch in to help
But for how long? A month? A year? Twenty years?
We saw what happened in the Depression when 25% were unemployed. I'd like to help you but we are struggling too. Get on a bread line and hope they do not run out of bread
The Dust Bowl where agriculture in a dozen states was wiped out. Are your neighbors going to help you?
They can't even help themselves