Please note that men’s REAL median income has gone up by only 9% over the last 50 years, and that is using the blatantly fake CPI calculation. Using a true measure of inflation would reveal that men make less money today than they did in 1967. And the MSM & corrupt politicians wonder why so many people are so pissed off.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Here’s one change: The US is now a Constitution-free zone.
the COST of commercials !!
Pretty good / funny article from Cracked — “The Only 4 Super Bowl Ads Companies Know How to Make” —- with some good vintage commercials
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-only-4-super-bowl-ads-companies-know-how-to-make/
Greetings from Rawlins , Wyoming. Cold .Very cold .What’s changed ? Me .
I used to love football ( sports in general ) but now I detest sports with a passion. Not sure why .Maybe
I see it as a waste of time ,or negrow worship or just grew tired of the bread and circus routine.I would rather read the different websites. The Burning Platform being my favorite. Hope the rest of you enjoy the game.
BB,
Dude! You’re coming UNHINGED !
Go to your local Weed Shop, buy a blunt, and chill the fuck out.
Oh …. BBES.
When I was in Alabama they did not watch corporate football. Only college games.
El Coyote , I have seriously thought about it but all it takes is one failed drug test and that would be the End of my Commercial Driver License ( forever )They shut down I 80 because of accidents and ice on road. I’m sitting here out side of Rawlins Wyoming in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Oh well .
A few other comparisons between 1967 and now:
In the early to mid 1960s:
Tuition, books, room, board, and incidentals for three terms at a state university – <$1000,
A new Mustang coupe (1966) – about $2000,
Getting the Mustang repainted at Earl Scheib's [a job well done] – $29.95,
Cost of a major city daily newspaper – 5 cents,
Restaurant coffee – 10 cents,
A hamburger at Bob's 19 Cent Hamburgers – 19 cents, and
A middle school teacher's salary – less than $600/ month.
The most significant change for me is that I was one month old for the first superbowl and now I’m 49. I’ve never watched an entire superbowl. Never planned to watch one and never saw more than a few minutes of one. The only football game I’ve ever watched in it’s entirety was a homecoming game in HS.
Oddly, I did play tons of sandlot football as a kid though and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bread and circus…the show must go on.
“The bankruptcy surge in 2005 will give us a benefit.” — Jamie Dimon
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real truth of the matter is,as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson… -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)
We’re going to need a bigger credit card.
@flash,
You have outdone yourself…
“taxpayer” funds the “big down payment” (GWB)
what a racket!
We need to cut up the credit card.
Maybe, a “national day of noncompliance” (Max Igan/The crow house)
or a week?
@ Suzanna …correct …the Corporist punked GOP got the debt party started. If this was universally understood across America , there would be no Republican party today…hence half the battle won.
read twice for clarity. …the two parties of fake wrestlers controlled by the interesta of international finance does not serve middle America and never will
Carroll Quigley Tragedy and Hope
https://archive.org/stream/TragedyAndHope_501/CarrollQuigley-TragedyAndHope_djvu.txt
Chapter 75 — The United States and the Middle-Class Crisis
The weakening of this middle-class ideology was a chief cause of the panic of the
middle classes, and especially of the petty bourgeoisie, in the Eisenhower era. The
general himself was repelled by the …
Right, whose impetus had been a chief element (but far from the most important
element) in his election, although the lower-middle-class groups had preferred Senator
Taft as their leader. Eisenhower, however, had been preferred by the Eastern
Establishment of old Wall Street, Ivy League, semi-aristocratic Anglophiles whose real
strength rested in their control of eastern financial endowments, operating from
foundations, academic halls, and other tax-exempt refuges.
As we have said, this Eastern Establishment was really above parties and was much
more concerned with policies than with party victories. They had been the dominant
element in both parties since 1900, and practiced the political techniques of William C.
Whitney and J. P. Morgan. They were, as we have said, Anglophile, cosmopolitan, Ivy
League, internationalist, astonishingly liberal, patrons of the arts, and relatively
humanitarian. All these things made them anathema to the lower-middle-class and petty-
bourgeois groups, chiefly in small towns and in the Middle West, who supplied the votes
in Republican electoral victories, but found it so difficult to control nominations
(especially in presidential elections) because the big money necessary for nominating in a
Republican National Convention was allied to Wall Street and to the Eastern
Establishment. The ability of the latter to nominate Eisenhower over Taft in 1952 was a
bitter pill to the radical bourgeoisie, and was not coated sufficiently by the naming of
Nixon, a man much closer to their hearts, for the vice-presidential post. The split between
these two wings of the Republican Party, and Eisenhower’s preference for the upper
bourgeois rather than for the petty-bourgeois wing, paralyzed both of his administrations
and was the significant element in Kennedy’s narrow victory over Nixon in 1960 and in
Johnson’s much more decisive victory over Goldwater in 1964.