wilkes

lol, you obviously don't know what frugal is.

I don't think you will live high in the hog making $48,000 a year nowadays. Especially with 5 kiddos. Taxes will be around $500 a month. If you are buying a house you are looking at $800 a month, car payment around $500 a month, insurance, $150. Utilities, $500. Groceries , around $700. These numbers are if you are living pretty frugal. Leaves around $900 for Savings and splurging.

That Equates to 48,769.00 per year. lol. Minimum wage was "bumped up" to $.85 per Hr.

I knew a guy who though everyone was cheating him. He was the biggest crook I know. There are so many people who want to blame others for their failures and they worry so much about what others have. You need to learn by giving up your job and try to live on welfare. You need to learn that other people are not just here to finance your greed.

$525.00 a month in 1964, is "Equal" to, $4064.10, in todays Money. Y'all lived Pretty "High on the Hog" from where I was looking.

This is a serious question, do y'all know a lot of people who don't work? I see y'all talk about welfare and how lazy people are constantly. Before covid every person I knew had a job. I have one friend who's a mom with small kids who doesn't work but that's all I can think of.

I didn't say anything about poverty. I was grown when he died. We weren't poor, we were rich because we had each other. Guess what he drove when he died, a 1949 Plymouth. My mother and father lived in a $35 a month apartment in Charlotte. They never owned a house. I know one thing, we were never on welfare. I babysat for 35 cents an hour when I was 12 years old and my mother made me pay 10% tithe to the church.

$500 was a pretty good income in 1964. If that is the history of your life, you know nothing about poverty. In 1964 a person could buy a new car for $3500 and gas was 25 cent a gal. You could rent a home in town for $50 a month. All utilities were less then $30 a month. The point is, you don't know what you are talking about.

I remember. People did any kind of work to survive. There were five children in my house growing up and my fathers paycheck was $500 a month when he died at 49 in 1964. We didn't have cell phone, computers, TV's or any other luxuries but we survived and were happy with what we had. Now we have a bunch of lazy people that think they are too good to work and keep having babies so their welfare checks will keep coming.

I can remember! Instead of Money, The "Dept. of Agriculture" distributed "Farm Commodities". Caned Meat, Caned Milk, Yellow Cornmeal, Course Flour, White Cheese.Powdered Eggs. and such. But "Back Then" there was no "Safety-Net" called SOCIAL SECURITY! When you got "OLD", and had no Family to care for you, The County would move you to the "County Home". My "Great Grand Parents" referred to it as "The Dying House".

I don't think you want to go back there.