American History: The Great Recession

I remember it all perfectly clear the day I heard that the stock market had crashed. I had been finishing up a daily check-up on a stock market for school ( I was currently about 12 or 13 at the time) when the news came on announcing that the stock market had crashed and afterwards I guess you could say that is when everything just went down hill. I am not 16 and it's been about 4 years and there has been little to no sign of improvement but there are still many hopefuls with Obama America's first black president. Some people like the Tea Party a group of (I guess you could say) political haters. They always have something to complain about. But they have made quite a few changes that we are grateful for.

Currently in case you haven't noticed I have been studying and writing about politics in humanities class. I find many points annoying or just plain confusing but, I do know for a fact that we are in a sort of endless swinging pendulum. In fact The Great Recession is very similar to The Great Depression. On October of 1929 on a Tuesday the stock markets crashed with great impact. Many across the nation were devastated by this and people went out of business or lost jobs. A new president was elected and was stuck in a mess already so far in. While we were wallowing in our loss a war ravaged on in another country. We were being flooded with immigrants, most who were trying to run away from their problems, while finding themselves stuck into ours.

Sound like anyone we know? I ask Mr. Anderson (dad) what his views on both stock market crashes were. He said that he found many similarities between them in the fact that both crashes had major impacts on people’s jobs. He explained how many people were laid off or had to work part time because they couldn’t find a supporting job. In the end I think it’s going to be quite a while or more like 6 or 7 years before things show any sign of turning around. I realize that by that time I will just be out of college and I have only one thing to say about all of this, “I ain’t picking up after you!”