(06-14-2009 12:33 AM)RobertN Wrote: You are an angry man. Calm down a bit. So much anger is not good for your health.
Robert, I used to fill up my Motorcycles at 0.25 Cents a Gallon for Gas.
I could buy a Large Dressed Cheese Burger, Large Fries, Large Chocolate Malt for 0.45 Cents. (for all of it - total price)
A bottled Coke was a Nickle because when we turned the bottles back in, we got a Nickle Refund on them.
Candy bars that freggin dwarf this little pieces of goo we purchase today that are called candy bars were 0.5 Cents.
Cigarettes were 0.20 Cents a pack with no Tax as was Skoal and Copenhagen - - Red Man pouch tobacco was 0.25 Cents per "1 Pound Pack".
It cost 0.50 Cents to get into a movie.
I could take $5 Dollars out on a Friday or Saturday night and have all the fun I wanted and still have change left over.
"ANGRY" ..... you bleedin' right I am ANGRY at this foolishness !!!!!
I used to make $175.00 Dollars + Overtime a week as a Supervisor at an Experimental Feed Mill and that was big money back then.
It's sad how screwed up we have become in just my life time.
Can you see the Financial Future in your Crystal Ball by working the Math out from my life to now, the present, as it pertains to your life or your Children's Lives and what they will have to pay for necessities just to survive.
My first Brand Spanking New Car with only 8 Miles on it, cost me $14,000.00 Dollars ...... that's because I had them add everything under the Sun onto that car ---- the same car today would be a $40,000 Dollar Car ..... ACTUALLY the car it's self was only $11,500 Dollars - - the other $2000 was Tax, Title, Special Delivery and such. We are talking all electric seats (drivers and passengers), T-Tops Sun Roof, Leather everywhere they could put Leather, Special Engine, 8 Speaker Stereo that the Antenna would Retract and hide away when you turned the Stereo Off .... Special Wheels and all 4 Brakes were Disc Brakes (big deal at the time).
Heck I was looking at a totally decked out brand new Firebird Trans Am Formula that was only $8000 and a Ford Silver Edition 4-Wheel Drive with built in 40 Channel CB Radio and Mudder Kit for $7000 when I finally bought the Special Package Monte Carlo ..... LOL
Some crazy prices on Brand New Decked out cars back then - - all those cars would be in the $30 to $40 Thousand range at today's prices - - and that is just plain freggin stupid. And we all wonder why the car industry as gone down the tubes.
My first Dirt Bike was only $550 Dollars - - the same type of Dirt Bike today will cost at least $4500 if not more .... it is wild the prices of things man !!!!!
I know things have to go up in price as outside influences drive the market, but what I am seeing is just plain damn stupid and out of control and it makes no sense.
AHHHHH - - you are so young that you don't understand what it is like to fill up an empty car with gas for only $3 Dollars ..... heck, in your generation, almost all you've ever known is "$3 Dollar a Gallon Gas" ..... it is just a shame
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