And thinking how bad this is for people in the lower 50% of income in the U.S. In the 1980s I was raising at one point 4 children with most of them teenagers and a baby so I remember how expensive it was to feed everyone including my wife and I then.
However, now money isn't my problem it's mostly my health. It's interesting how everything changes in life isn't it?
Nothing really stays the same.
However, for me, I never expected to be as well off or as happy in my life as I am now when I was growing up in the 1950s.
In the 1950s people were pretty miserable generally speaking that I knew mostly because the people older then me (born around 1950) had had a really bad experience through the Great Depression and World war II and 900,000 Americans had died in that war. So, there were many broken people mostly wives and lovers, parents and grandparents and Aunts and Uncles. So, survival was more important then and being miserable was normal After World war II.
So, most people were just happy not to be shot or dying quickly or slowly from injuries (physical or mental) from World War II, The Great Depression and the Korean War. I was 10 in 1958 so I saw people pretty unhappy but many also just grateful to still be alive too then.
However that was then and this is now where tomatoes are up 40% in one years time which is awful for the average person not only here in the U.S. but also around the world.
If you can now might be the time to help give money to food banks. We try to do this ourselves because lately it really helps people too. And often local companies will match whatever you give with matching funds too so your donation doubles, triples or quadruples depending upon what companies are donating to the Food Banks.
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