Re: a weeks' worth of groceries in 1947

 > JAB wrote:
 > Housewife poses with a weeks' worth of groceries in 1947. She spent
a
 > total of $12.50 a week (not including milk) to buy her groceries.
On
 > this budget, she is able to feed herself, her husband, her
 > four-year-old twins and her cat
 >
 > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVcjKKHXQAAxfYp.jpg
 >
 > @tradingMaxiSL

Your more intelligent then that.

The value of money drops when it is printed. AKA Inflation. A similar
even occurs with goods and services. Just like the "1982 Oil
Crisis",
"Mad Max", "The Outtage due to Sandy, leaving oil
tankers unable to dock and deliver oil to big cities" ( if you
can remember that scene
at the gas pump ). It is the reason why farmers are told to grow less,
and the government literally kills crops with spray planes, rather
then
having the farmers cut losses and donate there extra crops to starving
people, around the globe.

It is also part of the reason why USA does not built "American
Dream factory towns" for immigrants, with houses for married
couples with children, and dorms for singles. Because the USA have
vast amount of wasteland that could be worked and tons of broken
prison systems
and former abandoned 1950's towns that could be transformed.

Why?

Because manufacturing in China would cease and nobody wants to see
that correct? :wink:
 

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