It started long before 1971. Listen to the history of the US. It is a long video but worth the listen, it can easily be run at double speed. it presents all that we have done wrong.
lamont cranston
March 28, 2021 9:32 am
In August 1971 Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. Period.
Has to be. Graduated in 74, zero jobs. MBA 2 yrs later, same thing. Moved up to NC, first job – drove a heating oil truck. Best training ever.
Was GM od that biz at age 27 4 yrs later.
Anonymous
March 28, 2021 10:01 am
A chunky peanut butter and lettuce sandwich on white bread and 8 oz of milk could be had for less than 10 cents. That was the going rate for an afternoon school snack in 1973. As elementary kids we’d barter, trade, and sometimes steal the small plastic tokens the school provided us in trade. I look back and laugh now.
The wife works in the travel industry. The food prices in the airport terminals are ridiculous and it’s nothing for them to be thrown away uneaten. She sneaked one home one day and I marveled at the cost.
The asking price for a simple mozzarella cheese and tomato wrap in a sealed plastic container was over $12 US.
Unf*ckingbelievable.
BL
March 28, 2021 10:50 am
I built a new house in the early 70’s, price tag $31,000. Bought a new car, $3,600 and two weeks of groceries for the family, $22.00 which included all paper and cleaning supplies.
Believe it or not, I thought that was high as I was old enough to compare those 70’s prices to the 50’s and 60’s. Seems funny now that the dollah isn’t wurff diddly squat. Back in the day we called it INFLATION, today they call it GROWTH. Hhhmm……
Glock- They seriously call it growth, sheep don’t know the difference and don’t care. They are just starting to get a whiff of the steamy pile heading their way at full velocity.
How come when Mexico or some third world shit hole increases their money supply we say they “devalued” their currency. When we do it we call it “Quantatative Easing?” Did I say “third world shit hole?”
Bought a new house, just built in 1970 for 14,500. Inflation was well underway then. I sold it 4 1/2 years later for 55,000. My income was a bit above average, 20k plus bonuses and co. car.
lamont cranston
March 28, 2021 10:52 am
You left out “The Wild Wild West”. Robert Conrad, its star, summed it up best, saying, “They (CBS) cancelled every show with a tree in it”.
Thought it was Lovelace…The subsequent movie was horrible. A black Jim West was only outdone by Doc being Kevin Kline (???) with\out legs on some kind of platform. And the black stars & bars.
Watched 5-10 min on HBO and changed the channel to something more believeable. It was Space Ghost Coast to Coast on Cartoon Network.
Anonymous
March 28, 2021 11:10 am
Cultural Collapse Revolution by the ((Marxists)). FIFY. Even Ben Shapiro wrote about this in his book Primetime Propaganda
Ed
March 28, 2021 11:15 am
In 1970, two roommates and I smoked a few doobs and went grocery shopping under the influence. The three of us went a little wild shopping with the munchies in control and we filled a shopping cart completely. Checkout took a while, even considering our spaced out state while waiting, and we were all kind of floored by the total: $35 dollars and change.
Today, $35 fits in a single bag and might be only one item.
They hide the stealing of your money. One way is shrinking the packaging. When paper bags were the norm for groceries, $20 would generally fill a bag. Ten years later $20 would still fill a bag… but the bags were considerably smaller. They change up slowly so you don’t remember.
I’ve been saying since the days of the ‘Pet Rock’ that americans could market and sell dog crap and people would buy it. Marketing has gotten to be a science, everything is analyzed and they know how to maximize a message. Its why there are soooooo many brainwashed people today. Even us ‘free thinkers’ are not immune to this and is WHY we need sites like TBP. It helps us ALL to keep a steady heading.
How much is that shit Stucky? I might need some for the flowerbeds. Dogs used to just leave shit in my yard for free, now humans come and pick it up in little baggies. So, I figure that shit must have skyrocketed in price cuz I wouldn’t pick up shit no matter what it’s going for..
Think what will happen 2000 years into the future. Archaeologists will be desperately trying to find a Rosetta Stone to decode CD-ROMs (an ancient data storage technology) to determine the exact nature of the religious significance of the great Dog God. How do they know of this religion? Through the collection and carefully preserved and mummified dog scat in plastic by its adherents.
fuji- I’m with you on that. TPTB have turned once sane humans into pablum puking , dog worshiping morans who seriously can’t get out of a wet paper bag without EMS, a government program and a phone app. Back in the day our dogs stayed outside and we fed them once a day, patted their head, threw a stick a couple times. Dogs were just dogs.
Ed- Going to the grocery store now with the munchies due to weed could need a bank loan for many hundreds of $$$$. Some boomers could blow their entire life savings in the checkout if they were too ripped to care.
I actually look forward to top-end hyper, will be buying properties at cut rate.
Yep, it could easily run into thousands of dollars, at least given what passes for “dollars” these days. I routinely spend $400 at the grocery store if my daughter, son-in-law and the grandkids are coming to visit. They came unexpectedly yesterday and takeout pizza, salads and wings for us was a little over $100.
I haven’t gotten high since 1984, but I’d love to get by with only spending $35 for a week’s groceries. The older I get, the better things used to be.
“the original $ crisis,and how it led to today’s crisis”
interesting stuff here if true–we allegedly tried to kill degaulle several x b/c he wanted france to be independent–
Not much has changed. Multiply everything by 10 in the list and it looks somewhat current with today’s prices. So the 2021 dollar is worth 10 cents in 1971. Or, the dollar has lost roughly 90% of its value in 40 years.
It started long before 1971. Listen to the history of the US. It is a long video but worth the listen, it can easily be run at double speed. it presents all that we have done wrong.
In August 1971 Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. Period.
Indeed, the final and most important nail in the coffin.
I would have agreed with you until I watched the above video yesterday.
Watch it all at double speed.
At least, between LBJ and Nixon, we got Victory in Vietnam and domestic prosperity.
Sarc, right?
Has to be. Graduated in 74, zero jobs. MBA 2 yrs later, same thing. Moved up to NC, first job – drove a heating oil truck. Best training ever.
Was GM od that biz at age 27 4 yrs later.
A chunky peanut butter and lettuce sandwich on white bread and 8 oz of milk could be had for less than 10 cents. That was the going rate for an afternoon school snack in 1973. As elementary kids we’d barter, trade, and sometimes steal the small plastic tokens the school provided us in trade. I look back and laugh now.
The wife works in the travel industry. The food prices in the airport terminals are ridiculous and it’s nothing for them to be thrown away uneaten. She sneaked one home one day and I marveled at the cost.
The asking price for a simple mozzarella cheese and tomato wrap in a sealed plastic container was over $12 US.
Unf*ckingbelievable.
I built a new house in the early 70’s, price tag $31,000. Bought a new car, $3,600 and two weeks of groceries for the family, $22.00 which included all paper and cleaning supplies.
Believe it or not, I thought that was high as I was old enough to compare those 70’s prices to the 50’s and 60’s. Seems funny now that the dollah isn’t wurff diddly squat. Back in the day we called it INFLATION, today they call it GROWTH. Hhhmm……
I’ve wondered if this is where GDP growth is coming from and not actual production.
Glock- They seriously call it growth, sheep don’t know the difference and don’t care. They are just starting to get a whiff of the steamy pile heading their way at full velocity.
Even disasters are included as GDP growth and not a loss because of destruction. All the BLM and Antifa destruction is GDP enhancer don’t ya know.
How come when Mexico or some third world shit hole increases their money supply we say they “devalued” their currency. When we do it we call it “Quantatative Easing?” Did I say “third world shit hole?”
Bought a new house, just built in 1970 for 14,500. Inflation was well underway then. I sold it 4 1/2 years later for 55,000. My income was a bit above average, 20k plus bonuses and co. car.
You left out “The Wild Wild West”. Robert Conrad, its star, summed it up best, saying, “They (CBS) cancelled every show with a tree in it”.
Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless!
Thought it was Lovelace…The subsequent movie was horrible. A black Jim West was only outdone by Doc being Kevin Kline (???) with\out legs on some kind of platform. And the black stars & bars.
Watched 5-10 min on HBO and changed the channel to something more believeable. It was Space Ghost Coast to Coast on Cartoon Network.
Cultural Collapse Revolution by the ((Marxists)). FIFY. Even Ben Shapiro wrote about this in his book Primetime Propaganda
In 1970, two roommates and I smoked a few doobs and went grocery shopping under the influence. The three of us went a little wild shopping with the munchies in control and we filled a shopping cart completely. Checkout took a while, even considering our spaced out state while waiting, and we were all kind of floored by the total: $35 dollars and change.
Today, $35 fits in a single bag and might be only one item.
They hide the stealing of your money. One way is shrinking the packaging. When paper bags were the norm for groceries, $20 would generally fill a bag. Ten years later $20 would still fill a bag… but the bags were considerably smaller. They change up slowly so you don’t remember.
I’ve been saying since the days of the ‘Pet Rock’ that americans could market and sell dog crap and people would buy it. Marketing has gotten to be a science, everything is analyzed and they know how to maximize a message. Its why there are soooooo many brainwashed people today. Even us ‘free thinkers’ are not immune to this and is WHY we need sites like TBP. It helps us ALL to keep a steady heading.
How about gorilla shit (below). Not a joke.
They also sell cow shit, elephant shit, and a Combo pack.
https://poopsenders.com/#sendto
Wowsers… I think it has to be fake but who knows… Not even gonna investigate it.
If it were fake, and they got a ‘marketing company’… it’d probably go vi(r)al… take some lucky shyte where ever you go…
I never leave home without my ‘Lucky Donkey Shyte” vial right here around my neck… Get yours today… ten easy payments. “as seen on TV”
How much is that shit Stucky? I might need some for the flowerbeds. Dogs used to just leave shit in my yard for free, now humans come and pick it up in little baggies. So, I figure that shit must have skyrocketed in price cuz I wouldn’t pick up shit no matter what it’s going for..
Think what will happen 2000 years into the future. Archaeologists will be desperately trying to find a Rosetta Stone to decode CD-ROMs (an ancient data storage technology) to determine the exact nature of the religious significance of the great Dog God. How do they know of this religion? Through the collection and carefully preserved and mummified dog scat in plastic by its adherents.
fuji- I’m with you on that. TPTB have turned once sane humans into pablum puking , dog worshiping morans who seriously can’t get out of a wet paper bag without EMS, a government program and a phone app. Back in the day our dogs stayed outside and we fed them once a day, patted their head, threw a stick a couple times. Dogs were just dogs.
Ed- Going to the grocery store now with the munchies due to weed could need a bank loan for many hundreds of $$$$. Some boomers could blow their entire life savings in the checkout if they were too ripped to care.
I actually look forward to top-end hyper, will be buying properties at cut rate.
Yep, it could easily run into thousands of dollars, at least given what passes for “dollars” these days. I routinely spend $400 at the grocery store if my daughter, son-in-law and the grandkids are coming to visit. They came unexpectedly yesterday and takeout pizza, salads and wings for us was a little over $100.
I haven’t gotten high since 1984, but I’d love to get by with only spending $35 for a week’s groceries. The older I get, the better things used to be.
john mauldin,”the 70s never ended”
https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/the-1970s-never-ended
“the original $ crisis,and how it led to today’s crisis”
interesting stuff here if true–we allegedly tried to kill degaulle several x b/c he wanted france to be independent–
https://tavid.ee/guest-post-the-original-dollar-crisis-and-how-it-led-to-todays-crisis-part-1/
Not much has changed. Multiply everything by 10 in the list and it looks somewhat current with today’s prices. So the 2021 dollar is worth 10 cents in 1971. Or, the dollar has lost roughly 90% of its value in 40 years.