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This must have been clipped from a Yankee newspaper because in 1970 we spent only $27 for two weeks for groceries and that included paper products and cleaning supplies, everything. In 1957, southerners could not afford $20 for one week of food because they only made $40 a week.
Trust me, I was there in grocery stores in 1957.
So was I. My only regret is that in ’57 hemlines were still quite low and by the miniskirts came around, I was too tall.
The majority comment on the hidden tax = INFLATION
END THE FED
bunch of complainers that didn’t do anything!!!! If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem
Smelly- Please provide photos of YOU hanging banksters and burning down the Fed. TIA
Unfortunately, i had to destroy all evidence linking me to the crimes.
I never said i was any better. I get on here every once in awhile and quip some shit just like they did in ‘57.
I did lose my job over the jab
I have been taking control of the schooling of my child.
I have reduced my funding of the beast by having no taxable income.
Best i can do. Im kinda the non-violent type….. until i’m not.
My father brought home 200. Bucks a week 50 years ago his mortgage with taxes and insurance was 125 a month . We ate and used 4o bucks a week at the grocery store . We were not considered poor but where we lived on long island we were on the lower end of wealth. The equivalent today on long island you would need five thousand a week to support a household of five with a 4 k mortgage and 300 a week at least for groceries.
$300/wk for groceries to feed 5 (or is it 7 with mom and dad?)? My wife and I struggle to pay less than $175/wk just for the 2 of us.
Have you tried cricket souffle?
We make lots of casseroles.
Americans in 1950: Some day they’ll have flying cars.
Americans in 2023: This pancake syrup is racist.
Americans 2023-Can not accurately define what a female is for fear of the mob.
How many people in ’57 actually PRODUCED something?
Probably a lot more than now.
Made-up jobs that produce nothing of value and yet people some how make enough to pay for $650,000 homes, $90,000 trucks and that $10,000 yearly trip to Disneyland.
Must fascinate people that study these things. How does it work?
Yet the family structure has fallen apart.
Somebody knows what They are doing.
that 50 cent haircut comment made me laugh heartily.
In 1958 I worked for $1 a day. Haircut was $1. I GLADLY paid a days wages because the alternative was Mom cutting it with 1920’s vintage hand clippers which cut 3 hairs and pulled out 6 by the roots. OUCH! Good times!
So … I guess no one else is going to say that it’s a fake collection of made up quotes?
Like the probably true quote by Plato complaining about the unruliness and disobedience of children from 2400 years ago that people sometimes dredge up, it’s designed to mock you for noticing any negative changes in culture, economy, government, etc, thereby convincing you that things have always been this way, the future will be fine, and you should quit your bitching.
This is to some extent true. Government, economy and culture HAVE been being degraded for a long time. That does not mean that people should accept all further continued degradation.
It’s actually a weird form of gaslighting intended to get you to accept your fate, serf.
Eat ze bugs.
$5000 today will buy you an okay, barely road-worthy car, which will probably fall apart within 6 months.
$5000 pre “Cash for Clunkers” era got you a pretty decent vehicle, even if it was just a couple years old, and less than 50,000 miles, while $1000-2500 bought you a good used Toyota or Honda full-size for your first teen car of the same years. Cars and trucks that survived “Cash for Clunkers” debacle are now commanding high prices these days, even those in less than desirable conditions.