Posted on 04/09/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by xzins
The Teamsters have been shredded by non-union trucking. They represent a small (and shrinking) fraction of the business these days.
What’s the maximum number of hours a day that a trucker can now drive?
yessir...a BIG ol’ constituency being built for the next Socialist Charlatan Despot to get hisself elected POTUS.
I remember 19 cent gas and 9 cent White Castles and 5 cent Baby Ruths
From either major party. :>)
You should have had a tag.
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I never heard of a White Castle burger until I was already in the Navy, there was no such thing in the boondocks but I definitely remember when a five cent Baby Ruth bar was a big one and a ten cent bar was so big you could not eat it alone. We used to get a twelve ounce Pepsi and a pack of Nabs for twelve cents plus the refundable deposit on the bottle. Back then anyone who was hungry could just walk the road and pick up enough bottles to buy food.
I was telling my grandkids the other day that a nickel Baby Ruth was at least an inch wide and 6 inches long....and they looked at me like “uphill both ways to school” LOL. But it’s true. You know it’s true.
Half the people my age don’t believe things used to be so cheap, they have seen so much inflation that they remember things as more expensive than they actually were back in those days. There is no way a young person can believe it. I used to tell some of my young coworkers a few years ago about taking a girl out for a seafood platter back in the sixties when it cost $2.25 and was more food than you can get for 30.00 now, they thought I was out of my mind. If I had my current social security check and 1950 prices my wife and I could buy a new car every other month, burn the two month old one and STILL have money enough to live very well. Even a lot of people my age can’t imagine that but it is true.
In the late fifties MONY (Mutual of New York) actually ran ads offering to send info on how you could buy an annuity from them and retire in just 15 years with an income of $300. a month! I told that to a young fellow once and he gave me a blank look and asked what my point was! I replied that the point is that in that era retiring on $300. a month sounded pretty good, not insanity as it would sound now. I can still visualize the ad with a picture of a smiling silver haired couple on the golf course in Florida.
I can also recall reading an article in a farm magazine in the mid sixties bemoaning how awful it was that a young person who wanted to farm would need a huge $30,000. in capital to get started. You can’t even buy much of a pickup truck for that now.
” the suburbs are booming with $400K and higher homes going up everywhere. “
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Finding a $400,000.00 home would be a bargain in some Boston area suburbs. A friend of mine just sold one to a builder for $600,000.00,the builder made some improvements,and it was sold for $1.3 million 4 months later.
Dreadful.
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Interesting. Thanks.
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