Posted on 05/18/2025 7:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana
That may well be the reason. I don’t follow this cause in detail.
But that the IOC is as corrupt as Chicago is a given.
Have a permanent venue in Greece, slash the costs by 90%, and, uh, ditch “break dancing” as a competitive competition amongst a host of others.
Or, double down, and add ‘Diddy’s Freak Off’s’ as a new competition judged by one of those NYC pervert judges.
Cause they don’t have a way to get $25.00 burgers?
They will be fired and replaced by lower cost illegals with a different title so they do not qualify for the higher pay. Think the 29/hr obamacare rule. Suddenly 40/hr workers had part time 29/hr jobs.
The last time they voted a pay hike more then 10,000 workers in the fast food restaurants lost their jobs in 2024.
I do not see where the city or state has the authority to raise pay.
It is not about the Olympics...the L.A city council raised the minimum wage for hotel and LAX workers a few days ago. The last pay raise in the series just happens to occur in 2028:
Yeah, I want to $500 a night for a hotel room...
That $30 will be going to illegals, not American so...
Except the $30 minimum will not stop after the games and the hotels will die...
I think they paid it off in 2016.
Actually, there is a slow death of almost all entertainment going on. Almost every small entertainment now is so expensive, that many have stopped doing them as regular as they used to. Some are listed below.
Movies
Skating rink
Bowling
Fast food is getting too expensive. People say inflation, and they are right but it wasn’t always this bad.
Movies cost less than $5.00 for 20 years of my life and even then, they went it by 25 cents maybe every two years. Now they go up over $1.00 twice a year. When I was in College in the late 70’s, it was $3.00 ($2.50 before 6PM) and they had $2.00 Tuesdays.
I could buy a McDonald’s burger meal for less than $2.00 before Obama was elected. By the time he left office, it was over $5.00. Now its over $15.00.
I used to bowl for $5.00 for 3 hours of bowling. Now its $15.00 or more a game.
Every little thing costs so much that we have to pick one or two and forget the rest, and even then it is a special treat. When I first left college and was on my won, I used to go to the movies 3 times a week. It was cheap fun. Now, not so much...
I hear ya.
On the plus side, I’ve become a very good cook. Learned how to spatchcock a whole chicken a while back. Experimenting with different BBQ techniques and rubs. Learned how to make very good Chinese stir fry with everything from scratch (including the sauce).
Made a real tasty apple compote last night around 9 pm and had it on French toast this morning. Just made an excellent salad with greens, carrots, cherry tomatoes, mini-cuke, avocado and celery with oil and balsamic vinegar.
I started making sourdough bread from scratch about three years ago.
Of course, the yard and fix-it chores are sliding. There are never enough hours in the day, even in retirement!
My wife passed away last year. I hate cooking. I used to say I got married so I wouldn’t have to cook.
Been Door dashing too much and just cut back recently. Eating mostly canned or frozen food, along with mac & cheese.
Sorry to hear about your wife passing. That must be very hard.
My wife had her fill of cooking for the family. Now, she’ll cook if we have friends over or if we are going to another house for a potluck, but cook for the two of us? Never!
I can't even imagine what it is now.
That’s what I mean. The simple stuff that used to be fairly cheap are increasingly not worth it.
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