In 16 years, the cost of living has increased x's 4 (fast food, wage, legal)

[MTQ3000]

You have to set the starting point in 2009 if you want to blame Obama for everything as usual.

Mick

[No_Recess]

Regulation and forced currency: a match made in hell.

[SilverPlatter]

Originally Posted by Sharks With Lasers

I really don't think that a $1.50 hamburger in 2000 would cost $6 today. Nor would a $9000 truck in 2000 cost $36,000 today. Nor a $50,000 home in 2000 cost $200,000 today. The gasoline one: maybe, but that one is weird.

Nice try though.

True. I don't think costs have risen as much as the OP says, but Lockdev does make a good point.

Greater population/more people = more demand/competition for space and resources, hence increases in the costs of housing and necessities as time goes on.

It also doesn't help that people from poorer countries are trying to come here because they assume their standard of living will increase.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by MTQ3000

You have to set the starting point in 2009 if you want to blame Obama for everything as usual.

Mick

I made a point not to blame Obama...


I blame congress for not getting a handle on the quantitative easing. The hidden Tax, everyone pays.

Originally Posted by BentBow

I made a point not to blame Obama...


I blame congress for not getting a handle on the quantitative easing. The hidden Tax, everyone pays.

If you want to make a point, perhaps you could try using actual facts instead of made up nonsense.

[neko_mimi]

More people competing for the same resources. What do you expect?

[TrapperJohn]

Originally Posted by BentBow

$1.50 hamburger 16 years ago, $6 today

.99¢ gallon of gas we just saw $4 a gallon

$50,000 home, is now over $200,000 for the same footprint and amenities.

$9000 p/u truck, is now $36,000


The only thing that has not increased.... Income for manual labor.

Cars.com:

2000 Ford F-150 XLT: $24,517 MSRP

What truck was $9,000?

[jamies]

My F150 4x4 is about $60,000 with tax. I wish it was $27,000. Still worth $9,000.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

Cars.com:

2000 Ford F-150 XLT: $24,517 MSRP

What truck was $9,000?

Gah! I was trying to find that number earlier, and just wasn't getting it with google. Sometimes its easy to forget that in 2000 google was only a two year old company. I didn't even think of looking for msrp in the google search page. Good work.

[BentBow]

You right on the trucks..... I was thinking all the way back to 92 on that one(my bad), when I bought my first new truck.... Not 2000. I bought a used no frills 99 F-250 in 2001 for $20,000

But the hamburger deal is legit!! Serious, and I'm not talking Mickey D's. I was going on the "Sonic Drive-in " scale

I could go back to the 60's on pricing and really show the cost of living increase, but at the same time, wages were also increasing and keeping up. That went stagnant in the mid 1990's.