Just need to vent...

Our full grocery cart today was $70.31. Though it was a mini-cart, not the old giant ones.

A half century ago, I found some very old political-religious booklets in dad's bookshelf, from very roughly the time of his birth, complaining about political and societal breakdown and a cart full of groceries rising to an outrageous $5!

He certainly showed 'leadership' is how to massively borrow and over-spend, racking up a huge federal credit card debt, leaving it for the grandchildren to deal with, and constraining all Administrations since in how they could respond to economic difficultly.

Even worse, only one President since, not of the same party, has displayed any fiscal responsibility. But it was Raygun who created the modern (i.e. post-WWII) borrow-and-spend pattern.

 

Guessing book was from 1910, inflation since:

$5 in 1910 → 2022 | Inflation Calculator

So that $5 cart >$150 currently. You got half off. The other venting stands though.

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Or, maybe from cart-size deflation you got parity.

 

We do like those mini-carts, much closer to our needs and less unwieldy in the aisles. Those old-size carts seem to be from the era of typical families being 5+ mouths.

I'm thinking the book was post-Great-War. The homestead lost almost everything in a 1914 fire, learning too late that the piano didn't fit through the door, but did block them from saving much of anything else.

More likely sometime in the 20s. But there was mixed in/de-flation in that era.

 

Sounds like anti venting to me. Possibly disallowed here.

 

The name of the group that published those booklets was escaping me earlier, but now has returned: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. More commonly known by another name.

Apparently they were going door to door way back then, as they still do today. I don't think they've missed my door any year since I graduated from college. But from those booklets, I knew what to expect.

 

...has contaminated my well water

 

Just reduce it in your food.

 

Better ½ can't seem to imagine taking her shoes off to stop dragging road salt into the house. Even as I speak I'm using the Swiffer on all of the wood floor salt stains

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... destroyed my Subaru. It's way too cheap.

 

We don't have your snow or ice or salt at this time of year.

But we have Christmas music.

I hate Christmas music so much.

 

He hates jazz also, so I can imagine some crossovers would be like road salt to an open wound. The really gritty stuff.

 

Yeah. That whole jazz/Christmas crossover. Ugh.

And the whole weird conceit in music that Christmas is somehow a 1950s thing. Where does that come from?

 

Are there no garages?

Then there are labor shortages:


Bob Wilson

 

Actually, now that @bwilson4web brings it up....

When I last went to the US, I was sure I had to show a passport and stuff. It looked a lot like a border. And not an open one.

Maybe @John321 lives in a Schengen country. But I don't think he does.

 

Palestinian unwed mother crossing from one territory to another with a child who grew up to start a mass religious movement that opposed and then took over the government. And who got executed.

I can see where @John321 's objection is coming from now.

 

I have to show mine just to come back from a trip.

 

Fully support legal immigration.

Fully support all types of government working together with their people and other nations

I participate in our Churches migrant assistance resettlement program to help with this current crisis.

It is a balanced view.

Our southern border is now being overrun with undisciplined and uncontrolled migration with no checks in place for the migrants safety or the country's safety.

Everyone can now agree -- the US has a border crisis | CNN Politics


Speaking of Australia
Australia’s Harsh Immigration Policy – The Diplomat

Australia’s hardline deportation policy leaves no room for second chances | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Australia to Shift All Offshore Processing of Migrants to Island Nation of Nauru - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

I think twisting others replies into personal commentary's and continually not being able to look at others views in an objective rational way shows an unbalanced approach to life in general, not just to subject matter.

Here is hoping the new year brings tolerance, intellectual balance, intellectual curiosity, ability to really listen to others joy and some measure of peace to you and your loved ones.

 

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