The Buckets by Greg Cravens for February 17, 2016
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Remember when you were a kid, and your parents couldn't believe how much things cost? Sure. And now we're in that position! I have no idea how these kids are going to afford to live. Okay, calm down. What set you off this time? Toby spending more on a date tonight then I made on my first paycheck.
Darwin Grigg over 8 years ago
Been there, done that.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 8 years ago
Yep, that’s an eye opener, alright.
Olddog1 over 8 years ago
Salaries change too. At the time I retired, over 65, one hour of overtime was well more than my first paycheck. Both before deductions.
sbwertz over 8 years ago
I babysat for 35 cents an hour when I was a teenager.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
Is anything going to get better as man ventures further into the 21st century?
Retired Dude over 8 years ago
My first job was sacking groceries for forty cents per hour.
And I used to think “Man, if I could just make a hundred dollars a week I would be set for life.”
Diane Lee Premium Member over 8 years ago
………..Since that time, the productivity of the American worker has skyrocketed, and we are generally acknowledged to be the best in the world. And, we are producing goods that we can’t afford to buy…………………..……….Most of the value that we are producing is going to the 1%, who use that money to buy politicians who make laws that insure that they keep making most of the money, which they can use to buy more politicians, who will write more laws so they can make more money to buy more politicians and etc etc etc. …………. If this is Democracy, somewhere the whole thing has gone seriously off the tracks.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 8 years ago
I see now.
Seed_drill over 8 years ago
Here’s the scary stuff. My grandfather paid for my father’s education, my father paid for my education. I will never be able to afford to pay for my daughter’s education. Housing and healthcare have also become prohibitively expensive. This isn’t offset by deflationary sectors like clothes and electronics.
amaryllis2 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Where I live, we paid eleven times the original 1955 price of our house in the ’80’s. Now it’s worth eleven times what we paid, and it’s just an ordinary post-WWII tract house. The only way our kids could afford to live here is if they inherit the place.
pschearer Premium Member over 8 years ago
Prices don’t go up; the value of your money goes down. The people to blame are not the ones with no choice but to raise prices; the people to blame are the ones in charge of the money supply. The history of dozens of countries shows that it can end only in economic catastrophe.