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Yep, for all its problems, it sure is a great place to live.
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Yep, for all its problems, it sure is a great place to live.
AMEN!
brin
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We have to fix the problems though before they are unfixable...
Larry Caldwell
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I remember 1968. I was making $3.50 an hour, about $600 a month. My rent was $75 a month. A cup of coffee or a newspaper cost a dime. Chicken wings were 9 cents a pound. Full coverage health insurance for my wife and I cost $40 a month.
Fast forward a decade and I was making over $13 an hour. I built my first house cash out of pocket at that wage, which was the equivalent of about $150 an hour today. I finished the house in just over 3 years.
I think it would be really hard for a young guy to do the same thing nowadays.
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hopefully 11/2/2010 will be a start...we have to send a message that it's not just the economy..but that it's the overall policies and directions that America has been (recently) MISLED down...right now the only light at the end of the tunnel is train coming full steam..we need to send a mandate to prevent a train wreck the likes of which most Americans have never seen...
Loren49
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We do need to keep working at it but I see nothing concrete being offered that is different than where we were a few years back. Generalities are easy - its in the details. Our current government is the result of fair election - bills have been passed and signed into law. Many have failed to pass. Its the way it has always worked in the US. Nearly all controlling parties have lost seats in off year elections - it will happen again....We could cut all non-defense discretionary spending from the federal budget and would still be short by billions on revenue. Do the research - the talking points don't really add up. You would not get elected if you told the voters the truth.
I was also moved by the background of those who posted. We all have a story with differing backgrounds but more similarities - our American Spirit.
Loren
I was also moved by the background of those who posted. We all have a story with differing backgrounds but more similarities - our American Spirit.
Loren
keegs
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My Dad was born in 1913 and Mom in 1915. They were married in 1939. Dad had polio as a child and so wasn't eligible for the military. He had steady work at the Brooklyn Navy yard for most of the worst years of the depression so I guess things were'nt so bad for them. They've been gone since 1970.
They often talked about the depression...almost in a way, fondly. Growing up in the 60's I remember Mom alway kept a very large shelf in the basement filled with canned goods. Mom kept a big box of photos and in it were war ration coupons. I don't remember what they were for maybe gasoline. They always kept a big garden out back too. They saved S&H green stamps and Plaid stamps. In fact I have a table out on my deck purchased in the mid '60's with redeemed A&P "Plaid Stamps"....which reminds me ..It really needs a paint job.
They often talked about the depression...almost in a way, fondly. Growing up in the 60's I remember Mom alway kept a very large shelf in the basement filled with canned goods. Mom kept a big box of photos and in it were war ration coupons. I don't remember what they were for maybe gasoline. They always kept a big garden out back too. They saved S&H green stamps and Plaid stamps. In fact I have a table out on my deck purchased in the mid '60's with redeemed A&P "Plaid Stamps"....which reminds me ..It really needs a paint job.
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In the mid-50s, we gave green stamps at my dad's Mobil service station. I can tell you that some women took those things seriously. Mobil tires at the time were good tires, but too expensive. No way we could compete with places like the local White Auto store who was the biggest tire dealer in town, although we mounted and balanced what he sold. However, if someone wanted Mobil tires, we'd tell them that we'd sell the tires for $1 over our cost, plus the mounting and balancing, but that we could not give green stamps at that price.
I'll never forget when one of our regular customers agreed with that and bought a complete set of new tires. But that evening, here came the wife and wanted her green stamps. Dad told her what the deal was and showed her the price book, our cost and the MSRP. He told her if her husband had paid retail price he could have even given him double green stamps. Well, she promptly paid the difference, dad actually gave her triple green stamps, we made more money, and she left happy as a pig in mud.:laughing:
The town's biggest grocery store was across the street from us and he also gave green stamps. But there came a time when he told us the profit margin on groceries was so little that he figured he could quit giving green stamps, lose half his business and break even. So he quit giving green stamps, lost three-fourths of his business, and had to go back to giving green stamps.
keegs
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Good story Bird...You reminded me of those notorious women bargain hunters of my childhood and left me wondering if they're all gone now.
I didn't know there was a cost to the retailer for those trade stamps. I always figured they were somehow coming from the wholesaler or some other part of the supply chain.
I didn't know there was a cost to the retailer for those trade stamps. I always figured they were somehow coming from the wholesaler or some other part of the supply chain.
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I had a Uncle the worked at Brown and Williamson in Louisville, Ky. He was big on saving Raleigh coupons from that brand of cigarette. Ken Sweet
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