5 cent candy bars are now one dollar

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14 years ago 08/31/2009 3:29pm EDT

My childhood 5 cent chocolate bar now costs one dollar. I remember returning from the Army in `69 and noting I now had to fork over a dime for a Hersheys and penny candy was 3 for a nickel. No longer a grazer of the candy aisle I was kind of aware of a quarter and 50cents passing but the 75 cent mark was a shock. As the fall return of Mallowmars grows near my corner newsstand candy counter has a spanking new sign:

All Regular Size Candies- One Dollar

King-$1.50

My 6 1/2 oz tuna can is now 5oz, pound coffee cans are 11oz and 16 oz dishsoap is 14.5(same size just more indented ridges in the plastic)and the half gallon ice cream box sports a 48oz label now.

Fie!

rantout

14 years ago 08/31/2009 3:36pm EDT

re: Pop Bang-go

Pop Bang-go wrote:
My childhood 5 cent chocolate bar now costs one dollar. I remember returning from the Army in `69 and noting I now had to fork over a dime for a Hersheys and penny candy was 3 for a nickel. No longer a grazer of the candy aisle I was kind of aware of a quarter and 50cents passing but the 75 cent mark was a shock. As the fall return of Mallowmars grows near my corner newsstand candy counter has a spanking new sign:
All Regular Size Candies- One Dollar
King-$1.50
My 6 1/2 oz tuna can is now 5oz, pound coffee cans are 11oz and 16 oz dishsoap is 14.5(same size just more indented ridges in the plastic)and the half gallon ice cream box sports a 48oz label now.
Fie!
rantout

You ain't seen nothing yet. Under the Evil Obama you will see inflation you have never experienced in your lifetime.

14 years ago 08/31/2009 5:09pm EDT

re: tender juicy

Listen fvkhead, any inflation you see in the future can be laid at the feet of the Republican de-regulation spree of the last 40 years.

Be as brainwashed as you want by your parents hateful politics, the truth is the truth.

14 years ago 08/31/2009 7:16pm EDT

re: Logic

and a PINT of hagen das ice cream is only 14 ounces!!!

14 years ago 08/31/2009 7:34pm EDT

re: wildcow

Im still pissed about a bottle of soda being up to 1.50!

14 years ago 08/31/2009 7:54pm EDT

re: Logic

Logic wrote:
Listen fvkhead, any inflation you see in the future can be laid at the feet of the Republican de-regulation spree of the last 40 years.
Be as brainwashed as you want by your parents hateful politics, the truth is the truth.

Such ignorance.

Inflation is artificial for the most part, and goes all the way back 1913, with the formation of the "Federal Reserve", which is not Federal and has no reserves. In the end, you work for AIPAC. Do some research, then see if you can still go along with the sheeple and crow "conspiracy theories" without really looking into the reasons behind anything.

It isn't Obama's fault. Hell, he probably isn't capable of understanding most of what's going on, judging from his performances without pre-written answers. Just another shill for the folks really running the show. He's a puppet, and Rahm Emanuel pulls the strings - based on the orders he gets from his superiors. Wait until your true masters take off the gloves and the masks. They destroyed Russia, then moved here claiming they were discriminated against. Now they've ruined the US. And yet people still wonder why these smiling folks have been called "Nation Wreckers" for over a hundred years.

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