Posted on 05/31/2012 5:22:48 PM PDT by Dallas59
The Complaint:
"The corporations and the government have us all living like slaves. I can back it up with numbers, too -- in 1950 you could buy a brand new nine-room brick home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the whopping sum of $11,500. A decent family car was about $500, and the gas for it was about 25 cents a gallon. A large loaf of bread cost under 15 cents. A large coffee was a nickel, with a free refill. I could go on and on. But now between greedy corporations and the government confiscating our income with sky-high taxes, you have to work two jobs just to survive."
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
The price of gold was $34.72 an ounce in 1950, the price of gold now is around $1600.00, a 46 ratio. Divide 46 by 7.5 and you find, based on the cost of gold that in 1950, prices were 6.1 times LOWER than now.
Second easy one to refute is that they say that the IQ level is higher, but in 1950, we would not have voted for Obama, a unknown, foreign born Muslim man when we are at war with Islam. Proving that while the IQ may be higher, the Wisdom is sorely lacking. What good is IQ if kids are taught how to masturbate in school instead of think and reason?
I would gladly turn this nation back to the 1950's, when gumchewing and talking were high crimes in school, not rape and murder, we as a Nation trusted God and people respected Morality instead of power and wealth.
Its a no brainer, suitable for even us low IQ types.
Cracked is a lousy source for information even if one can wade through the language that sounds like hip 14 year olds finally mastering cussing and cigarettes.
Its better than that.
In the early 60's my dad made $400/month in gold that was about 11 1/2 ounces of gold. An equivalent amount today is 3,400/month ($40,000/yr) is a little over 2 ounces of gold.
The damage to the economy seen by goverment spending is pretty clear when measured in gold.
***In the early 60’s my dad made $400/month in gold that was about 11 1/2 ounces of gold.***
how did he do that as it was illegal to own gold thanks to FDR.
Going to be a bit pricey to install all those "colored" bathrooms and water fountains again.
Which might explain why I never saw a color TV until I came back from Vietnam very late in '69.
Otherwise, I was OK with the article up to the IQ claim:
My SAT test results in 1961 were precisely equal to my MSAT test scores in 1976.
I felt real good until I read the fine print and learned that 99 in 1961 equaled about 80 in '76.
Corrected: "In the early 60’s my dad made $400/month. In gold that would be about 11 1/2 ounces of gold at the time."
Is that better?
They almost had me until I got to the part about everyone now being smarter and our education system being so much better.
Nice post. I’m with you 100%.
We are broke, lets skip that.
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