My daughters watched the "Kit Kittredge" American Girl movie this morning. It's based on one of the American Girl historical dolls and accompanying books. Her story line is set during the Great Depression and covers everything from the hobo camps and soup kitchens to the housing foreclosures and the way people made ends meets.
Now during the Depression you could legal rent out rooms of your house. You could legally have chickens in your back yard. You could legally do business from your house and not have the government, local or federal after you.
We currently have an 1,800 square foot house with four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a family room. If this were the Depression I could be renting out the rooms and convert the family room or living room into another rentable space. I could raise chickens and maybe even a goat and sell the eggs and milk, butter, cheese. If the water restrictions weren't in place (among the other laws), I could grow food in the backyard and sell or can the surplus. I could mend clothes, do alterations, and get the financially cheap fabric from Walmart and sell better quality clothes than what is in the stores (have you seen how cheap the fabric and stitching are on those things). I could make cute affordable toys at Christmas, if I wasn't competing with slave made items from China. I could sell homemade baked bread and cookies. My husband could make furniture in the garage on his off hours.
Americans haven't lost our ability to be entrepreneurs, but it does seem we're being denied the chance. The laws are set up to favor foreign goods. There are so many other laws that would apply to what is stopping us that it makes my head spin. I think the politicians need to shut up about all their "jobs bill" dreams and just get rid of the over regulation that is standing in our way.
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