Beer.
“Beer, and to see something naked.”
Don’t mind if I do. Happy hour, one liter Spaten Lager for $6. Cheers!
I want what I had when I was 25, gasoline for $.28 a gallon, new cars for $3500, two bedroom apartments for $120 a month or so, decent houses for $15000, huge seafood platters for $2.25 including all the trimmings and the iced tea, steak lunches at Western Sizzlin’ for $1.69 and a salary of $147 a week with great benefits. What’s the chance of that ever happening again? For those not old enough to know, one week of that salary bought more than my entire MONTHLY social security check buys now, a lot more in fact. I quit smoking long ago and certainly could not afford to smoke now but in those days I smoked and hardly noticed the cost, a CARTON of cigarettes could be had for less than half the price of one pack now. The price of a single cigarette of a top brand now exceeds the price of a pack in those days. The price of a gallon of pure gasoline unpolluted by ethanol is now SIXTEEN times the price in those days. The price of ten percent ethanol is thirteen times the price of pure gasoline in those days. You could not live now as I lived then on $1500 a week and probably not on $2000 a week. On top of all that I am exposed to idiots in the government and media talking about how there is no inflation now.