Add this to my Civil War post ...

[dogtag]

Came across this this morning on Drudge:

https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/one-of-the-worst-times-ever-in-american-history-ken-burns-says-current-times-equal-to-civil-war/

Maybe I'm not paranoid after all.

[togor]

A counter theory would be that people have never had it so good, so they have time/energy to get torqued off about things that would not be nearly as important (like who can marry who) if they were hungry, sick, tired, cold or wet most of the time.

[rayg]

A counter theory would be that people have never had it so good, so they have time/energy to get torqued off about things that would not be nearly as important (like who can marry who) if they were hungry, sick, tired, cold or wet most of the time.

Maybe some people do have it good but the majority of the people are just struggling trying to keep up because of the rising for everything!

[togor]

Maybe some people do have it good but the majority of the people are just struggling trying to keep up because of the rising for everything!

Not nearly as bad as the first few Reagan years. Stagflation was brutal.

[lyman]

Not nearly as bad as the first few Reagan years. Stagflation was brutal.

Carter years were worse, the interest rate were high,
gas was still up a bit,

[BudT]

Carter years were worse, the interest rate were high,
gas was still up a bit,

Be patient Biden has over 3 more years to "Fxxx" up things more. Last report I got on the real rate of inflation it was nearing 8% across the board. Natural gas just doubled in time for winter, fancy that coincidence. Red meat, pork and other meats in the double digits as of the last farm report last week. Usually very accurate information to and it's a 5 day a week report on whats happening. Mr. Peanut was very bad for the economy across the board, the "misery index" of his will soon be back. From what we had under Trump to what we have now under this dork is truly a bad deal unless your into pain. Now back to canning Bread and Butter pickles and loading some more 45-70. Ya'll have a good one.
BudT

[togor]

Carter years were worse, the interest rate were high,
gas was still up a bit,

Those years were economically tough. Gas prices, jobs, etc. But the drinking age was 18 and we were young and so were the women. We took the bad with the good, didn't we?

[dogtag]

I bought a house during the Peanut years. The mortgage interest was 9.25

[Vern Humphrey]

I bought a house during the Peanut years. The mortgage interest was 9.25

I had a 6 3/4% mortgage, and that was such a good deal in the years of the Peanut that when my Assignment Officer asked me where I wanted to go after Korea, I said "right back here!"

In the 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Casey, every building had an aerial photo of the North Korean battery that was aimed at that building -- we were sitting on a bullseye. Our only hope was to get out of of camp before the balloon went up -- and to do that, you have to practice it. But under the Peanut, we didn't have enough fuel to move the division. All we could so was muster, load out vehicles, call the roll and them stand down.

Regan took the oath on the 20th of January, and the first week of February we had an alert -- and got the order to march! We had no experience with cold weather, no heaters for our engines, no stabilizers for our fuel, nothing. As a division staff officer, my job was to monitor the 38th Infantry. I saw those kids sliding under trucks, trying to warm the oil pans with torches. The 38th Infantry left camp on foot, with only the ammo in our pouches and only the rations in our packs. If the North Koreans had attacked while Peanut was president, the 2nd Infantry Division would have died like pigs in the wire.

[dogtag]

I managed to re-finance to 7% (What a deal)

[lyman]

Those years were economically tough. Gas prices, jobs, etc. But the drinking age was 18 and we were young and so were the women. We took the bad with the good, didn't we?

well, yes,

and beer was cheap,,

gas was 1.48 a gallon, and my Vega used 3 quarts of oil per tank of gas, at 99cents for the cheapest I could find,,


cheap beer was less than $2 a 6 pack,,,

I think I paid $15 for my first concert ticket (Police,, GoGo's opener) but the shine I was sipping on the way there was free

[togor]

Vinyl was $6-$7 for an album too.

I still have most of mine and a turntable that gets occasional use.

I repaired my Pioneer receiver about a half dozen times until it finally packed it in after 35 years.

In those days first paychecks went into cars, audio, or car audio.

[dogtag]

When vinyl was replaced with discs I bought Turntables for next to nothing.
I have eight of them. Same with VCRs. Bought brand new high qualty units
for five bucks apiece. I have a bunch of those too, Still use them.

[lyman]

I bought a DUAL direct drive (CS608) then read somewhere that belt drives were better,, so I bought another, (1259)

did not notice a difference,
don't recall what needles are on them, would have to look,

got a 3rd Dual direct drive still in the box in storage (at my shop)



I also have my Fathers turntable, big old tube console turntable,
arm has eyes like a snake (came that way, called a Cobra IIRC)

still works fine, we put it in the upstairs hallway a couple years ago, I think he bought it in 1959


I use the Zenith more than any other turntable,

the Sansui amp/tuner I had died years ago, and it was replaced with a Onkyo,
the AR (Acoustic Research) Speakers I had died as well,, replaced them with a much smaller set of JBL's

I have a Fisher in the garage, with 2 big old car type speaker boxes, , and an Aiwa reel to reel,
still have a few reels that I recorded a few albums on back in the day to play

[dryheat]

We had a Zenith tv as kids. Remember adjusting the horizontal? I had Acoustic Research speakers(big ones) in the front room for years. They were awesome, but I pulled the covers off one day and found the foam cushions around the edge of the woofers had just dissolved over the years.