In 1996 I shared a house with two other guys in a mid sized city in Minnesota, looking out at the only lake in town, the rent for the entire house @ $400. I worked part time while I went to school and did just fine. If that house is still for rent I guarantee it is well more than $3000.
Ironically, no matter how bad the economy gets, I still half expect dems, combined with cheating (only dems really cheat because so many people are on the dole, welfare, grants and contracts), will come out well after the next election simply because they will promise ever more bribes, which is basically their only platform other than bad orange man is the amalgam of every evil man in the history of the world.
I remember when my Grandparents would tell me when buying something, "this used to cost a nickel". I didn't understand it until my later years. Now, when I go to the grocery store (I don't dine out, that's insane with the prices and the fake food they feed people who don't know why they are sick all the time) and see a can of Campbells Chicken Noodle soup which is loaded with salt (not the good kind) and gawd knows what (the label is a nightmare) "on sale" for $2.49 I say to myself, "I remember when this would sometimes be on sale for .30 cents in the 1980's"! Or how about top ramen (equally just as bad for you, but if you are going to college and are a young pup can definitely keep you from starving to death) which used to often be on sale for 10 for a dollar! And the sad thing is... the young people (just like we were) will be conditioned to think these prices are "normal"....
US tipping is 25% now? Now THAT is real inflation.
I had a summer job in '71 as a waiter in a popular Atlanta steak house. I'd consistently take home $100. Seems that $100 is still a thing, but now it's worth $25.
Sad indictment on the economy.
If the youngsters don't wake up, they are forever f@<ked. Or conscripted. I know, redundant.
Great article, GC. John William's, shadowstats site is excellent and correlates to the truths you've posited here. When Uncle Saul's bureaucrats say unemployment is 4%, Williams shows that it's actually 24%. A slight discrepancy, wouldn't you say? To destroy a nation, destroy its people through miscegenation while concomitantly rupturing its economy and debasing its currency. No country can remain standing after a one-two punch like that. But it's just the natural course of events when race traitors allow a certain tribe to infiltrate, take over, and pervert the pillars that hold the socio- body politic together, like termites devouring a healthy tree.
This was a very good article! I too remember having $150 rent, .96 cent gas, bought a week's worth of groceries for $20-$40! My husband was supposed to retire last September after 38 years with his company. Thanks to this fraudulent president/administration and the ones we now know we thought we decent before, but weren't...who knows if he'll ever get to! More likely illegal immigrants will just take everything from all of us! Not like the government or military will help us! Anyway your story made me chuckle! Oh the good ole days of sex on the counter...those are long gone too. 🤭
It is possible to live in these times and be able to buy stuff and tip well. The key is not how much you earn, but how much you spend. All my friends have huge loans on everything and don't seem to notice how that burden fully compromises their lives. They can't afford anything because they thought they could afford everything. A new car every 3 years. Moving about in search of something better every few years is very costly. Buying a house while under severe financial pressure becomes impossible. All they can think of is getting a gig job to increase their income. They never think about reducing their expenses. Most have Dish or Direct TV, which costs at least 1200 a year, and is full of propaganda and advertising that promotes even more spending. They go on vacations using credit because they hate their jobs, and their house. They are truly unhappy with their lives and want to escape it all.
All this because of previous purchases (using credit) they couldn't afford in the first place. The problem began in the 1920's when car sellers would "finance" a new car for those who couldn't afford it. The price of financed cars went up because of the easy availability of credit. If people only purchased things that they could afford (in cash, out of pocket), prices would reflect the true demand and not the false demand that easy credit creates.
The key is to live within your means without credit. Stop taking on more debt. Pay off your current debts. It's amazing how much extra money there is when most of it isn't already spoken for every month and your only costs are unavoidable, such as property taxes, utilities and food. I don't buy anything that I can't pay for using yesterday's money because using tomorrow's money has no limits, except to keep you poor. I am going out for a $16 burger tonight, and I will tip at least 20% gladly, because I can afford it. I might even buy a $7 beer. I have the money today because I didn't spend it yesterday using credit. I realize that the currency (it isn't money) is depreciating, so I buy (physical) silver and gold to prevent that loss.
I recently hired a caterer for a dinner event for 10 people. The extent of their involvement was cooking the food at their kitchen and delivering it to me in containers for me to heat the food back up MYSELF later that day. We had agreed on $600, a more than fair price for the meal she was making; she sent me an invoice a week before our dinner with a line item tacked on for a $150 tip, 25%. So it's now to the point that there's no service even involved and a 25% tip is expected a week before you even taste the food! I didn't pay it. When I explained to her why, it turns out there was absolutely no rationale for her including it on the bill except "that's what everyone does" (and of course most people probably just pay it without questioning).
Dude! (I call you this with the highest regard and bro respect a fellow man born in the 60's, who came of age in the late 70's/early 80's can award) I swear you're my brother from another mother...my cohort from another coastal port.
Your musical references, your movie clips, and your DEW-ish sharp wit have evolved a kinship that deserves not only recognition, but praise and encouragement.
I have observed a recent trend here on substack, for which I would like you to consider. Have you considered creating a "Founding Member"-ship"?
If not, I wish you would consider it. If so, go for it. I am confident I am not alone in thinking that it would be an honor to support your vital perspective and important contribution to the world with a premium membership.
You deftly appeal to all of the uniquely human characteristics of logic, emotion and art, which makes you persuasive and effective.
As a veteran of the hospitality industry that once earned only $2.15 per hour as a bartender on the Emerald Coast of Florida, who relied on generous tips generated by exceptional customer service and genuine interpersonal skills, seems we both paid our dues. Now, as a state licensed healthcare professional, those skills and that experience pays dividends daily working with patients and colleagues.
I feel deservedly fortunate to be in the statistical 1/3 of the population who has modest savings and the ability to support worthy artists...whether they be musical, fine artists, or creative writers. This is why the option to buoy your gifts would be an honor.
Please consider this proposal, perhaps even create a poll for readers to respond in order to explore what extra benefit(s) a founding membership could offer.
Thank you for all the painstaking research, effective references, and authentic expression!
We have to be creative in these times snd forget about what our patents had.
I did a crazy thing recently that affected my housing-it was cheap housing in a new construction Gulf Coast beach house. I left this $500 per month 3 story house with an elevator to get out of a situation whereas I was shacking up two years with my long time who might be suffering from dementia onset,,,, became too much of a thorn in my side to stay any longer. So rented a 1960 house that has survived 2 major hurricanes, ewe, and living expenses tripled. Next move: RV baby ( I've RV'd before) and expenses will drop about 2/3. I love this feeling of freedom from (someone elses) psychosis, at least for now.
I’m glad I’m in the UK where tipping isn’t really a thing.
Something I did learn years ago is that if you pay a tip by card instead of cash then what some companies would do is use the card payment tip to make sure they met monthly quotas etc. corruption as always.
In 1996 I shared a house with two other guys in a mid sized city in Minnesota, looking out at the only lake in town, the rent for the entire house @ $400. I worked part time while I went to school and did just fine. If that house is still for rent I guarantee it is well more than $3000.
Ironically, no matter how bad the economy gets, I still half expect dems, combined with cheating (only dems really cheat because so many people are on the dole, welfare, grants and contracts), will come out well after the next election simply because they will promise ever more bribes, which is basically their only platform other than bad orange man is the amalgam of every evil man in the history of the world.
I remember when my Grandparents would tell me when buying something, "this used to cost a nickel". I didn't understand it until my later years. Now, when I go to the grocery store (I don't dine out, that's insane with the prices and the fake food they feed people who don't know why they are sick all the time) and see a can of Campbells Chicken Noodle soup which is loaded with salt (not the good kind) and gawd knows what (the label is a nightmare) "on sale" for $2.49 I say to myself, "I remember when this would sometimes be on sale for .30 cents in the 1980's"! Or how about top ramen (equally just as bad for you, but if you are going to college and are a young pup can definitely keep you from starving to death) which used to often be on sale for 10 for a dollar! And the sad thing is... the young people (just like we were) will be conditioned to think these prices are "normal"....
US tipping is 25% now? Now THAT is real inflation.
I had a summer job in '71 as a waiter in a popular Atlanta steak house. I'd consistently take home $100. Seems that $100 is still a thing, but now it's worth $25.
Sad indictment on the economy.
If the youngsters don't wake up, they are forever f@<ked. Or conscripted. I know, redundant.
Great article, GC. John William's, shadowstats site is excellent and correlates to the truths you've posited here. When Uncle Saul's bureaucrats say unemployment is 4%, Williams shows that it's actually 24%. A slight discrepancy, wouldn't you say? To destroy a nation, destroy its people through miscegenation while concomitantly rupturing its economy and debasing its currency. No country can remain standing after a one-two punch like that. But it's just the natural course of events when race traitors allow a certain tribe to infiltrate, take over, and pervert the pillars that hold the socio- body politic together, like termites devouring a healthy tree.
This was a very good article! I too remember having $150 rent, .96 cent gas, bought a week's worth of groceries for $20-$40! My husband was supposed to retire last September after 38 years with his company. Thanks to this fraudulent president/administration and the ones we now know we thought we decent before, but weren't...who knows if he'll ever get to! More likely illegal immigrants will just take everything from all of us! Not like the government or military will help us! Anyway your story made me chuckle! Oh the good ole days of sex on the counter...those are long gone too. 🤭
It is possible to live in these times and be able to buy stuff and tip well. The key is not how much you earn, but how much you spend. All my friends have huge loans on everything and don't seem to notice how that burden fully compromises their lives. They can't afford anything because they thought they could afford everything. A new car every 3 years. Moving about in search of something better every few years is very costly. Buying a house while under severe financial pressure becomes impossible. All they can think of is getting a gig job to increase their income. They never think about reducing their expenses. Most have Dish or Direct TV, which costs at least 1200 a year, and is full of propaganda and advertising that promotes even more spending. They go on vacations using credit because they hate their jobs, and their house. They are truly unhappy with their lives and want to escape it all.
All this because of previous purchases (using credit) they couldn't afford in the first place. The problem began in the 1920's when car sellers would "finance" a new car for those who couldn't afford it. The price of financed cars went up because of the easy availability of credit. If people only purchased things that they could afford (in cash, out of pocket), prices would reflect the true demand and not the false demand that easy credit creates.
The key is to live within your means without credit. Stop taking on more debt. Pay off your current debts. It's amazing how much extra money there is when most of it isn't already spoken for every month and your only costs are unavoidable, such as property taxes, utilities and food. I don't buy anything that I can't pay for using yesterday's money because using tomorrow's money has no limits, except to keep you poor. I am going out for a $16 burger tonight, and I will tip at least 20% gladly, because I can afford it. I might even buy a $7 beer. I have the money today because I didn't spend it yesterday using credit. I realize that the currency (it isn't money) is depreciating, so I buy (physical) silver and gold to prevent that loss.
I recently hired a caterer for a dinner event for 10 people. The extent of their involvement was cooking the food at their kitchen and delivering it to me in containers for me to heat the food back up MYSELF later that day. We had agreed on $600, a more than fair price for the meal she was making; she sent me an invoice a week before our dinner with a line item tacked on for a $150 tip, 25%. So it's now to the point that there's no service even involved and a 25% tip is expected a week before you even taste the food! I didn't pay it. When I explained to her why, it turns out there was absolutely no rationale for her including it on the bill except "that's what everyone does" (and of course most people probably just pay it without questioning).
If you know the truth, what GC is describing is called "Applied Talmudic Judaism."
What’s all this talk about tipping? Who can afford to actually buy something where somebody actually makes your food and serves it to you?
It’s gonna get worse, and you’ll fondly remember these days.
That’s what’s frightening about where things are going -- our current situation is going to be remembered as a pretty damn good life.
Biden is just the latest in a long list of jewish owned Pols who are instrumental in the downfall you write about:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BLxkZAGoYUSm/
Dude! (I call you this with the highest regard and bro respect a fellow man born in the 60's, who came of age in the late 70's/early 80's can award) I swear you're my brother from another mother...my cohort from another coastal port.
Your musical references, your movie clips, and your DEW-ish sharp wit have evolved a kinship that deserves not only recognition, but praise and encouragement.
I have observed a recent trend here on substack, for which I would like you to consider. Have you considered creating a "Founding Member"-ship"?
If not, I wish you would consider it. If so, go for it. I am confident I am not alone in thinking that it would be an honor to support your vital perspective and important contribution to the world with a premium membership.
You deftly appeal to all of the uniquely human characteristics of logic, emotion and art, which makes you persuasive and effective.
As a veteran of the hospitality industry that once earned only $2.15 per hour as a bartender on the Emerald Coast of Florida, who relied on generous tips generated by exceptional customer service and genuine interpersonal skills, seems we both paid our dues. Now, as a state licensed healthcare professional, those skills and that experience pays dividends daily working with patients and colleagues.
I feel deservedly fortunate to be in the statistical 1/3 of the population who has modest savings and the ability to support worthy artists...whether they be musical, fine artists, or creative writers. This is why the option to buoy your gifts would be an honor.
Please consider this proposal, perhaps even create a poll for readers to respond in order to explore what extra benefit(s) a founding membership could offer.
Thank you for all the painstaking research, effective references, and authentic expression!
We have to be creative in these times snd forget about what our patents had.
I did a crazy thing recently that affected my housing-it was cheap housing in a new construction Gulf Coast beach house. I left this $500 per month 3 story house with an elevator to get out of a situation whereas I was shacking up two years with my long time who might be suffering from dementia onset,,,, became too much of a thorn in my side to stay any longer. So rented a 1960 house that has survived 2 major hurricanes, ewe, and living expenses tripled. Next move: RV baby ( I've RV'd before) and expenses will drop about 2/3. I love this feeling of freedom from (someone elses) psychosis, at least for now.
Get ‘em in
Get ‘em down
Get ‘em fed
Get ‘em out
That was the pin my former colleague used to wear on her waitress uniform 30 years ago for all the customers to read.
Not sure what’s so different today.
“Its all soviet now.” Indeed GC.
Clowns to the right of me. Jokers to the left. Here I am stuck in the middle with you.
https://youtu.be/ln7Vn_WKkWU?si=EVdfED4c-Sax0Pv4
I’m glad I’m in the UK where tipping isn’t really a thing.
Something I did learn years ago is that if you pay a tip by card instead of cash then what some companies would do is use the card payment tip to make sure they met monthly quotas etc. corruption as always.
Remember -- debt is a tool. It's just money that we owe ourselves!