Freight shortage?

Reason why it’s shrinking is because US has robed majority of the countries and doesn’t have much to rob anymore since there’s bigger fish in the pond now. Now the US is robbing their own citizens. All the imaginary wars and imaginary terrorist stories have caught up to the whole world.

 

I believe you both are on the same page. At the end of the day, monetary inflation leads to price inflation.

For 100 years, the central bank aided by politicians have robbed the people’s individual and economic Liberty right out from under them.



From 1969 alone, steak has gone up around 1,830 percent. Housing costs are through the roof and what used to take one income to run a household…now takes 2 or more.

If you were paid in sound money IE silver, each dollar (based upon the 90% silver content) you earn would have a purchasing power of approximately $16.64 each.

Federal minimum wage - 15,080/yr x 16.64 = $250,931.20 of purchasing power. There is no escaping just how much the fed has robbed the people. It’s no coincidence, as the central banks were never designed to protect the people’s money, nor expand their economic liberties. It’s done on purpose. Control the money, control the people, care not what their laws or liberties are.

“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.” Washington to Jefferson


“Paper is poverty,” “It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.” and paper money’s “abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, make a lottery of all private property.” Thomas Jefferson


“Paper money is unjust, It is unconstitutional, for it affects the rights of property as much as taking away equal value in land.” James Madison

 

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Now wait just a minute. Everybody on this forum is fond to say they and everyone they know does just fine in a one income household. That "gotta have 2 incomes in a household" talk is craziness. I was laughing when they said city folk need 2 incomes but country people are doing just fine on 1. Riiight

 

You can’t fathom someone living simply and having a comfortable life and raising a family on one income the same as I can’t fathom someone living where it takes $120k a year to simply exist and not get ahead. Everyone makes their own financial choices and my line in the sand since 2011 is that I would never be in an area that required me to work to just exist, except for those four months in Hawaii but that was different.

If happiness and quality of life are important to people they figure out how to make it work no matter what it takes. If one parent staying home and raising their children is a priority they figure it out.

For us, I bought my house right before things went crazy with Covid. Every extra penny I had from running Ag exempt during Covid went to paying off the house. That was my goal back when I was single and I made it happen and paid it off. Then I met someone. Then we adopted a child. And now I work while she’s home with the coolest 7 year old I know. But that wouldn’t have been possible with a big fancy house with a matching mortgage and a couple new vehicles with payments or a bunch of credit card debt. We chose to keep my little 900sq ft two bedroom house because it’s paid for and has room to build a shop. I choose to drive a 2017 camper van that I built out in 2017 because it’s paid for. She chooses to drive a 2019 Tahoe because she paid it off. Sometimes it does suck that we have to drive 30 minutes to the grocery store, or an hour if we have to go to Lincoln for anything, but the $920 property tax payment reduces the suck a little.

It’s choices and priorities and what is important to each individual. But to say things are impossible or can’t be done is just false because people are doing it every day. Even listening to Dave Ramsey people call in all the time and say their motivation for getting out of debt was so the mom could stay home and raise their children.

 

Lol. Thanks.

 

It's like when you go to shop for a house and they say, "Well sir, you can afford a $150,000 house (this was 20 years ago)." And I say, "No I can't. My limit is $100,000".
House is now paid off with any number of improvements, (windows, AC, roof, Soffit and facia, etc......).
I guess I knew better than they did.

 

I will admit that I got lucky with the timing of this one. I bought a fixer upper and the contractor bought pretty much all the needed materials and was well into the project before lumber spiked during Covid. But at the end of the day I’d be like you and wouldn’t max myself out on a mortgage anyway. When I was married the first time and lived in Montana we purchased a modest home while our friends were going bigger and better but we didn’t want to be house poor. And man that decision paid off too when it was time to sell it for the divorce. Lol.

 

Rural Tennessee doesn't take $120,000 income just to get by. That would be a really good income for around here. Most people even where you live need 2 incomes to get by. That's just reality. Your situation is the exception not the rule. Most people don't know how to manage money.