Don't Stop Thinkin' 'bout Tomorrow

from Of Two Minds

It wasn't just wage stagnation.  Prices were lower for everday items.

These are some of the things you may have seen advertised Below and how much food and groceries cost in the 80's
2% milk $1.59 a gallon Iowa 1987
Apple Juice 99 cents per gallon New Jersey 1986
Apples 39 cents a pound Wyoming 1986
Bacon $1.69 cents per pound New Jersey 1986
Blue Bonnet Margarine 50 cents per pound Pennsylvania 1981
Bratwurst $1.69 per pound Iowa 1987
Bread Sliced 55 cents New Jersey 1986
Broccoli 39 cents per pound Wyoming 1986
Cheese Puffs 89 cents a bag Kentucky 1986
Corn $1.18 for 12 Pennsylvania 1981
Flour 99 cents for 5 pounds Pennsylvania 1981
White Sliced bread 50 cents Pennsylvania 1981
Grapefruit 33 cents New York 1988
Ground Beef $1.39 per pound New York 1980
Ham and Cheese Pizza $2.49 New York 1988
Heinz Ketchup 99 cents Pennsylvania 1981
Ivory Dish Soap 79 cents New York 1980
Kiwi fruit 99 cents per pound New Jersey 1986
Kraft Singles Cheese $1.47 for 12 Pennsylvania 1981
Leg O Lamb $2.19 per pound Wyoming 1986
Miracle Whip $1.27 Pennsylvania 1981
Navel Oranges $1.39 for 10 New York 1980
Peanut butter, Skippy $1.49 jar New Jersey 1986
Pineapples $1.69 each New Jersey 1986
Plums 39 cents per pound Pennsylvania 1981
Pork and Beans 40 cents Iowa 1987
Pork Chops $2.49 per pound New York 1988
Pork Loin $1.39 per pound New York 1988
Pot Roast $1.49 per pound Wyoming 1986
Potatoes $1.00 for 5 pounds Wyoming 1986
Rib Eye Steak $3.89 per pound Iowa 1987
Ritz Crackers $1.59 Wyoming 1986
Strawberry Jam $1.39 Pennsylvania 1981
Tomatoes 39 cents per pound New York 1980
Tuna, Star Kist 99 cents per bag New Jersey 1986
Turkey 55 cents per pound New York 1980
If you were part of the middle class in 1983 and voted for the Republican & Democratic party procession of witch doctors with lots of feel good, bullshit, central planning assclown ideas about how to “help the unwashed masses” shoehorn themselves into a house and lifestyle that they would eventually lose in a foreclosure anyway, then congratulations from your old Uncle Kenny.  Awww shucks…. looks like you managed to shoot yourself in the foot, Dumbass Beaver.