Why This Feels Like a Depression To Most People

``The unemployment rate averaged 19% during the heart of the Great Depression. Therefore, approximately 19% of all the households in the U.S. needed assistance to feed themselves. That happens to be the exact percentage of households currently needing food stamps to feed themselves... I also wonder whether the corporate mainstream media purposely chooses not to show pictures of the poor waiting in long lines to be fed because their function is not to report facts and truth, but to perpetuate the lie that all is well in America.  I pass the Grace Lutheran church ... everyday on my way to work. Every Thursday is when the church, in partnership with the Philabundance food bank, distributes free food to the people of West Philly. The line stretches around the block ... there are old, young, black, white, Latino, and Asian in the line. It looks exactly like the line pictured in the Great Depression above. I'm sure there are similar scenes across every city in America on a daily basis. People dependent on food banks and living in homeless shelters are at record levels. Where are the mainstream media pictures? How does that jive with Ben Bernanke's self congratulatory book tour about how he saved America by secretly handing Wall Street and foreign bankers $16 trillion?''