Cost of Living

[Rollo Tamasi]

That was fantastic!!!

 

[Mike]

Monte Python... There will never be another.

Seriously, I believe most of us (that means me too) are responsible for much of the rising cost of living in the long term. Americans have led this trend by adding luxuries we never dreamed of having to our lives growing up. Sometimes it's due to having new products and technologies, but sometimes they are more of what we had. Cars per household and larger houses, just to name a few.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Monte Python... There will never be another.

Seriously, I believe most of us (that means me too) are responsible for much of the rising cost of living in the long term. Americans have led this trend by adding luxuries we never dreamed of having to our lives growing up. Sometimes it's due to having new products and technologies, but sometimes they are more of what we had. Cars per household and larger houses, just to name a few.

Yes, the American lifestyle has changed the economy of the world.

 

[for_his_glory]

I remember back wayyyyyyyyyyy back in the 1900's when things were so much cheaper...................but the paycheck still didn't cover the cost of living..............what a vicious cycle

 

[JohnDB]

I remember back wayyyyyyyyyyy back in the 1900's when things were so much cheaper...................but the paycheck still didn't cover the cost of living..............what a vicious cycle

Wanting more always seems like to great idea.

Like wanting to talk to a family member hundreds or thousands of miles away.
To now wanting to call your spouse at the grocery store so they wouldn't get milk.
To now having instant access to the Internet while driving distracted down the road.

Wanting more is an American lifestyle choice. Most believe that they "deserve" whatever... A new phone, new car, new house.
But...I have plenty... More than enough... So much so that giving is almost the single most important thing in my life.

 

[Corn Pop]

I remember back wayyyyyyyyyyy back in the 1900's when things were so much cheaper...................but the paycheck still didn't cover the cost of living..............what a vicious cycle

You could buy a house back then for 500 and sell it now for 4.2 million.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Wanting more always seems like to great idea.

Like wanting to talk to a family member hundreds or thousands of miles away.
To now wanting to call your spouse at the grocery store so they wouldn't get milk.
To now having instant access to the Internet while driving distracted down the road.

Wanting more is an American lifestyle choice. Most believe that they "deserve" whatever... A new phone, new car, new house.
But...I have plenty... More than enough... So much so that giving is almost the single most important thing in my life.

 

[for_his_glory]

You could buy a house back then for 500 and sell it now for 4.2 million.

In 1954 when I was born a house cost 22,000, car 1,950, gas .21, bread .17, postage stamp .03 and Avg income was 3,960

 

[Corn Pop]

In 1954 when I was born a house cost 22,000, car 1,950, gas .21, bread .17, postage stamp .03 and Avg income was 3,960

Im just happy I never fell in the mainstream brainwash trap. Its not reality and its not Gods will.

Its all man made. People slave for life just to help grow and establish the elites babylon up the top. I can see through this world and its shallow heart and the kingdom it lives in.

 

[for_his_glory]

Im just happy I never fell in the mainstream brainwash trap. Its not reality and its not Gods will.

Its all man made. People slave for life just to help grow and establish the elites babylon up the top. I can see through this world and its shallow heart and the kingdom it lives in.

Material things can become idols placed in ones life and becomes their god. Thank God we who are in Christ and He in us are no longer part of this world and its entrapment, but just traveling through it looking forward to our new home where we will spend eternity with Christ in His paradise of the New Jerusalem.

 

[Malachi]

In 1954 when I was born a house cost 22,000, car 1,950, gas .21, bread .17, postage stamp .03 and Avg income was 3,960

And then the world went off the Gold Standard and destroyed this.

 

[Corn Pop]

And then the world went off the Gold Standard and destroyed this.

When the US scammed the world into a raw deal.

All economic systems are a scam. People are forced to follow the love of money or rely on money.

As it goes, the tighter it becomes, the more forced and money hungry people must become or rely on welfare to survive while complaining about money.

It is insanely ungodly and one of the biggest scams mankind has ever created.

Its a complete pyramid mess. It was created by the man at the top so the man at the top gets it all.

 

[Mike]

In 1954 when I was born a house cost 22,000, car 1,950, gas .21, bread .17, postage stamp .03 and Avg income was 3,960

Shoot. $3,960 a year? I make at least 4 times that! Hey, I'm not braggin. Just sayin... A man's gotta be real! :wink

I guess I over-stated the contributions of our own thirst for stuff to our cost of living, but we do bring on a lot of our financial pressures on ourselves. Most people do, regardless of their income bracket. Always justifying more.

 

[jasonc]

You could buy a house back then for 500 and sell it now for 4.2 million.

Would you buy an old house like the ones I have posted for 4.2 million? I'm talking about bungalows, not the mansions. All built tween 1890 to 1930.

 

[gerbilwoman]

That stinks you didn't get an increase. I get SSI too and didn't get an increase either. I'm lucky to have some finical support from my parents and grandfather, but it's still hard.