Price of Powder & Primers in Perspective

[Kracken McGraw]

My observation, the folks that live from pay check to pay check. Always have money for smokes and alcohol.

And a lot of those will drop big bucks at the fireworks stands this week also.

 

[dryhumor]

One interesting downside to wage increases is the proliferation of self checkout and self ordering stations in stores and restaurants. One worker monitors 6-8 checkout stations. Self order stations there’s no real interactions unless you pay with cash.

Same with online sales. In many cases you cannot speak with an actual human. It’s all click click click.

 

[Bc'z]

One interesting downside to wage increases is the proliferation of self checkout and self ordering stations in stores and restaurants. One worker monitors 6-8 checkout stations. Self order stations there’s no real interactions unless you pay with cash.

Same with online sales. In many cases you cannot speak with an actual human. It’s all click click click.

And unskilled, minimally educated entry level employee's starting @ $15hr in service industry bitching cuz someone asked them to clean it versus lean against it.
Leaving us with an older work force where they have to have 2-3 of these positions to get ends to meet monthly, as 40 hour work weeks w/possibilities of OT aren't heard of, and just forget about any benefits.

 

[wedgy]

And buying guns and ammo in California just got double taxed as of today.... to make us safer. We are at 10% tax already plus FFL fee to buy ammo and this doubles it to 20%.

 

[FNSafari]

There. Is. No. Inflation!

Remember the transitory comments?

 

[JFrank]

Stockholders and investors want to recover their money lost during recessions, they don’t care about the little guy, they buy politicians through campaign funding and pull strings like puppeteers. Big oil doesn’t want solar or wind power or tax hikes and guess who they support, pharmaceutical companies are close the top of the garbage heap. weapons manufacturing and sales around the world well that’s a cesspool I haven’t figured out.
Oh well , have a nice day
J

 

[jxb]

Thank you!!
This coupled with that invisible terrorist Covid, shutting down supply chains limiting availability of virtually everything from raw materials to finished goods globally.
The scary/funny part is a lot of people think this happened overnight, when the reality is its a long game being played out to bring on globalization.

Yes and what they also tend to forget is even if we'd done none of the things that many people think shouldn't have been done, we still would have seen exactly the same things here, presumably at the same percentages as Sweden which I believe did not vaccinate (could be wrong). Reason being is like it or not we ARE part of a global economy so all those other countries would have done what they needed to in order to meet their goals. So supply chains would have been impacted the same as they were. There's all the arguments for/against vaccination but given we pushed the hospitals to the breaking point most places had we not offered and encouraged them what do people think would have happened, more worrisome is what would the cascading effects of the hospital system been nationwide.

Folks really need to wake up to this because the next pandemic or other critically impacting issue is just around the corner. Those that plan for it same as any unforeseen event will fare it far better than those that choose not to. I'm not talking prepper mode, just good common sense stuff as for any number of life events that many of us have (or will) encounter.

 

[M-61]

My first mortage under Carter

By far the worst president this country has ever had. And that’s saying a lot.

 

[CJ6]

Well, In 69-70' a 100# keg of IMR 4895 (pull down) was 75-80$. Look at what a pound is going for nowadays.

 

[seymour fish]

Here is the Oxford definition:

noun: inflation

1. 1.
   the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated.
   "the inflation of a balloon"
   • Astronomy
     (in some theories of cosmology) a very brief exponential expansion of the universe postulated to have interrupted the standard linear expansion shortly after the Big Bang.
2. 2.
   Economics
   a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
   "policies aimed at controlling inflation"

IMF definition:

Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices or the increase in the cost of living in a country.

As I said, you are half right in many circumstances. But, you may be completely wrong. Inflation does not require government. I think what you have latched onto is a definition targeted at neophytes. If you still disagree you are welcome to argue with the professors I had during 4 years of college economic and any other economist you can corner.

Since GNP includes massive governmental spending as “ production”, an obvious manipulation reminiscent of the W.C. Fields quote “ spent a fortune on whiskey and wild women, and the rest I wasted completely”, and bases inflation rate on a basket of goods largely void of those inputs essential for life, all of which presumably with the approval of economists, it would be interesting to know what flavor of this pseudoscience most appeals to you. perhaps after reading “Economic Hitman” you would be less inclined to quote the IMF ?

 

[lawman29]

Well, In 69-70' a 100# keg of IMR 4895 (pull down) was 75-80$. Look at what a pound is going for nowadays.

I just dream of the good ole days...

"The minimum wage went to $1.00 an hour effective February 1967 for newly covered nonfarm workers, $1.15 in February 1968, $1.30 in February 1969, $1.45 in February 1970, and $1.60 in February 1971."

 

[seymour fish]

By far the worst president this country has ever had. And that’s saying a lot.

Not even close. Woodrow Wilson, JFK, Obummer, Shrub, Clinton, FJB .

 

[jxb]

And buying guns and ammo in California just got double taxed as of today.... to make us safer. We are at 10% tax already plus FFL fee to buy ammo and this doubles it to 20%.

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You know we love "visitors" to Oregon, no sales tax and if you really like pumping your own gas in the heat or a snow storm you can do that too now.

We are quite friendly to folks from out of state (esp California) so long as they don't move here. Really applies to those that move here because they think Oregon is so wonderful (it was and mostly still is) then 6-18mo later want to change everything because "it's not like where I used to live". I like to say feel free to go back to wherever you came from, the road runs both ways.

 

[M-61]

Not even close. Woodrow Wilson, JFK, Obummer, Shrub, Clinton, FJB .

Oh he’s there:
Mariel boat lift (ever see I-95 in Miami?)
444 day hostage situation
Gave away Panama Canal
Failed to repay Annapolis education with four years active service
Insane mortgage rates
Destroyed American moral
Solid presidential yacht
Claims to be a nuclear theorist ( no such thing)
I could go on but your stating Wilson is really a hard one to beat What we have today in the Middle East is Wilson’s doing.
But James Carter unconditionally pardoned 200,000 American draft dodgers.
He stopped my education veterans benefits .
I’d like to continue but sometimes truthful posts …well….

 

[dryhumor]

Not even close. Woodrow Wilson, JFK, Obummer, Shrub, Clinton, FJB .

You left out LBJ…

 

[jxb]

Times aren't bad, far from it. I recall more than a few times when it was bad. Sure the guy in office makes many folks mad, but so do all of them in one way or another. Can't make everyone happy, not even part of the time.

Anyone that actually wants to work can get a job (or three) simply by going most anywhere and asking for one and doesn't appear that's going to change anytime soon.

Millennials are starting to figure out they actually need to do something to get ahead in life, it's not owed to them.

Interest rates aren't even close to worse than they were in the past. They are far more likely to go down than up from this point and barring some unforeseen major event that trend should last for years.

Fuel is still affordable AND you can actually buy it. Anyone remember the early 70's?

Natgas isn't record low, but it's pretty close and if suppliers were required to get it all into the system they'd be paying us to use it just so they could get the oil out of the ground. Electric isn't good, but not bad either.

Anyone that wants to eat can regardless of how poor they are. Food is plentiful and mostly not too bad either. Heck we can get anything regardless of season because it's in season somewhere.

We get weather forecasting to the hour many places and some to the minute. It wasn't long ago that you could simply flip a coin for the weather report, it was that poor.

We can still buy everything we need to shoot, sure it costs more but buying on sale helps.

We have more and better offerings for firearms than we've ever had.

SCOTUS finally has our backs on 2A

There's no shortage of good things in our lives, I could go on and on with examples.

My point... try a little glass 1/2 full for a while. You might be surprised how good you feel.

 

[dryhumor]

There’s enough disposable income around that cutting grass can bring in quite a bit of walking around money for someone who is willing. $25-60 a pop.

The real money to be had, is doing spring and fall system maintenance on HVAC units. Clean the coils, tighten connections, take a few readings, and replace the filters. $50-75 a pop.

There’s always money laying somewhere for someone to pick up that’s willing to work for it if they need it.

 

[Jayplace]

Times aren't bad, far from it. I recall more than a few times when it was bad. Sure the guy in office makes many folks mad, but so do all of them in one way or another. Can't make everyone happy, not even part of the time.

Anyone that actually wants to work can get a job (or three) simply by going most anywhere and asking for one and doesn't appear that's going to change anytime soon.

Millennials are starting to figure out they actually need to do something to get ahead in life, it's not owed to them.

Interest rates aren't even close to worse than they were in the past. They are far more likely to go down than up from this point and barring some unforeseen major event that trend should last for years.

Fuel is still affordable AND you can actually buy it. Anyone remember the early 70's?

Natgas isn't record low, but it's pretty close and if suppliers were required to get it all into the system they'd be paying us to use it just so they could get the oil out of the ground. Electric isn't good, but not bad either.

Anyone that wants to eat can regardless of how poor they are. Food is plentiful and mostly not too bad either. Heck we can get anything regardless of season because it's in season somewhere.

We get weather forecasting to the hour many places and some to the minute. It wasn't long ago that you could simply flip a coin for the weather report, it was that poor.

We can still buy everything we need to shoot, sure it costs more but buying on sale helps.

We have more and better offerings for firearms than we've ever had.

SCOTUS finally has our backs on 2A

There's no shortage of good things in our lives, I could go on and on with examples.

My point... try a little glass 1/2 full for a while. You might be surprised how good you feel.

So very true.

Several things have been discussed in these threads including inflation of housing.
I've been around a while and lived in several houses when living with my parents and each had one bathroom and most didn't have built in appliances.

The first house I owned and had built had two bathrooms, my current house has more bathrooms and amenities than any other house I've owned. It cost a lot more than any other house too.
Should I call that inflation when I pay more , but also get more.

My car is the same way, it comes with navigation, cameras all around and leather seats. It also cost more than any other car I've owned. Should that be called inflation when the car also offers more, but it's also what everyone else has.

How many on here have Nightforce or March scopes that are relatively expensive. Leupold at one time was expensive and most of us were happy with weaver scopes, but now we pay a lot more for our scopes. Do we blame that on inflation too?

Yea, things seem expensive, but my Grandfather complained about the high cost of things 60 years ago. He's the one who talked about making $1.00 a day early in his life.

 

[Jayplace]

There’s enough disposable income around that cutting grass can bring in quite a bit of walking around money for someone who is willing. $25-60 a pop.

The real money to be had, is doing spring and fall system maintenance on HVAC units. Clean the coils, tighten connections, take a few readings, and replace the filters. $50-75 a pop.

There’s always money laying somewhere for someone to pick up that’s willing to work for it if they need it.

LOL. I haven't seen prices that low for a long time.

 

[dryhumor]

LOL. I haven't seen prices that low for a long time.

Depends on where ya are I guess. That, and what sort of property it is.