Tbqf I think a lot of this stems from the 2008 financial crisis. I'm noticing many of our woes of today are a continuation of the horrible choices made by the elites back then. When there was finally a time for a big correction, a time where literally everybody was going to get beaten to a pulp (financially), they bailed out the elites, leaving the rest of us to get beaten to a pulp for over a decade now. And it keeps happening. And they keep just throwing around money like it doesn't even matter. Heck, what's another zero added to that number we're sending to Ukraine?
2008 was officially the year where money among the elites basically turned into monopoly money. Ya know, the game where if you run out of money in the bank, you are literally told in the rules to just print some more on pieces of paper.
It really was a kind of tipping point. Remember Occupy Wall Street. At the time, I kinda thought they were fools but it turns out they were definitely onto something. I also heard Soros infiltrated them with the Antifa shock troops to undo the movement. Apparently, at the start, there were some smart well-meaning people and Antifa was the rotten apple that spoiled the barrel.
I most certainly do remember the occupy movement. I was mostly confused about what they were whining about, but that was in the latter stages, likely when it was infiltrated by Antifa. Because I think they started saying we all need a bailout, but I think the original mantra was that nobody should get a bailout... But I could be wrong on this one
Thanks for this, Liz. You've hit the nail on the head. "Is this what what we want? A world in which all non-essentials have been scrimped out of existence?" No! But it's what the Great Reset WEF UN NWO crowd want for us: "You'll own nothing (we'll make sure you won't be able to afford the basics or to have fun, heh-heh) but you'll be happy." All beauty's gone, we're now living in black and white not technicolour: Toronto's a **ithole and getting worse every day. The COVID lockdowns, mandates, and never-ending lies, got the misery ball rolling, all justified by the merciless lying elites. I pray for our kids and grandkids ...
Grocer profits are a result of two things: 1. Monetary inflation (that creates price inflation); 2. Price inflation of big ticket and luxury and convenience goods and services that leads people to stay home and spend MORE at Superstore instead. Also, Grocers are better at finding efficiencies thanks to COMPETITION -- supermarkets are one of the less-regulated spaces in our economy. Ottawa and the provinces will be sure to change that in the coming months and years.
Love this, you are my newfound favorite on Substack. All the sad and mad news and articles, humor is a welcome change. If we don’t laugh at these things, we would be crying! I am considered a “tail-end” Boomer at age 65 who thinks that yes we don’t want those wonderful manicurists, hairstylists etc. to go away. We need them, but those genZ ers who are crying because they can’t afford anything may have a to pinch those pennies for a while until they can afford the luxuries. As someone who lived in a double wide trailer the first 10 yrs of marriage, but built a beautiful dream home a few years later, I can say it’s worth the wait, I mean work.
That’s funny about going from a double-wide trailer to dream home. Now the new dream home will be a double-wide trailer! I actually kind of fantasize about living in a trailer now… life on the road, with my dog, going from cold plunge to cold plunge… can I put a sauna into one of those? It’s all just fantasy at this point but it does cross my mind…
I am a boomer and I resent your premise lol.. I grew up on a farm and started working at age 9 and am still working at 61 no shame in working hard and living well below your means..My parents lived through the depression and WWII and my mom told us stories about how horrible the depression wasn’t how neighbors helped each other and there was a real sense of community.Now it’s all about divide and conquer well this American Citizen isn’t playing that game.Thanks for a great article and a few laughs
Age 61 isn’t really ‘boomer.’ I know they say it is but it’s so close to the tail end and people your age tend to have more in common with GenXers. They’d actually a name for your cohort… the Jones generation.
Anyway, I’m not blaming boomers… certainly not all boomers. I’m saying a general trend is for GenZ to express these frustrations and for some boomers and also some GenXers to say “pull up your socks!”
And GenZ does have to pull up its socks. As I said in an earlier comment, they have to stop trading their time for money, open AI-proof businesses, get really imaginative. Which isn’t to say I don’t sympathize.
I somewhat agree with everything you have said. But…not totally. When I had a bar my cocktail waitresses were shocked my Liz owned a house. I said ‘how much do you spend a month on cigs and drinks?’ It turned out in three years they could have all saved enough for a down payment. Right this minute it is hard to buy. But this changes over time. In fifteen years we should have a massive price correction on housing. Kids 20 now will do great. But not if they don’t start saving now. And likely we will have another good buying period between then and now.
I agree with what you say too. Also, GenZ has to get a little more creative. They have to stop trading their time for money and start a business. Yes, the economy’s a shitshow. But people became millionaires during the Great Depression. There is always a way…
Actually you ought to be blaming the political class. But no, to you it’s a particular age group. lol. Get a fucking life. Quit whining. And stop voting communist.
Uh hello... Based department?
Tbqf I think a lot of this stems from the 2008 financial crisis. I'm noticing many of our woes of today are a continuation of the horrible choices made by the elites back then. When there was finally a time for a big correction, a time where literally everybody was going to get beaten to a pulp (financially), they bailed out the elites, leaving the rest of us to get beaten to a pulp for over a decade now. And it keeps happening. And they keep just throwing around money like it doesn't even matter. Heck, what's another zero added to that number we're sending to Ukraine?
2008 was officially the year where money among the elites basically turned into monopoly money. Ya know, the game where if you run out of money in the bank, you are literally told in the rules to just print some more on pieces of paper.
Heh imagine that...
It really was a kind of tipping point. Remember Occupy Wall Street. At the time, I kinda thought they were fools but it turns out they were definitely onto something. I also heard Soros infiltrated them with the Antifa shock troops to undo the movement. Apparently, at the start, there were some smart well-meaning people and Antifa was the rotten apple that spoiled the barrel.
I most certainly do remember the occupy movement. I was mostly confused about what they were whining about, but that was in the latter stages, likely when it was infiltrated by Antifa. Because I think they started saying we all need a bailout, but I think the original mantra was that nobody should get a bailout... But I could be wrong on this one
Thanks for this, Liz. You've hit the nail on the head. "Is this what what we want? A world in which all non-essentials have been scrimped out of existence?" No! But it's what the Great Reset WEF UN NWO crowd want for us: "You'll own nothing (we'll make sure you won't be able to afford the basics or to have fun, heh-heh) but you'll be happy." All beauty's gone, we're now living in black and white not technicolour: Toronto's a **ithole and getting worse every day. The COVID lockdowns, mandates, and never-ending lies, got the misery ball rolling, all justified by the merciless lying elites. I pray for our kids and grandkids ...
Thank YOU Jane.
I so agree about Toronto in the post virus world. Everything got worse. It's maddening.
Grocer profits are a result of two things: 1. Monetary inflation (that creates price inflation); 2. Price inflation of big ticket and luxury and convenience goods and services that leads people to stay home and spend MORE at Superstore instead. Also, Grocers are better at finding efficiencies thanks to COMPETITION -- supermarkets are one of the less-regulated spaces in our economy. Ottawa and the provinces will be sure to change that in the coming months and years.
Heh heh. This is so well written it will be criminalized by one Trudeau Nepo Fontleroy III.
When they come to get me, I'll stare them in the eye and say 'what took you so long.'
Ron, tell the world my story!
I've got your back!
Hi Ron! Say hi to Toby.
Who ... Mystic William? After checking with her - whew - she knew you. lol The howdy has been conveyed, SC. Two howdy's back.
I had lunch with Elizabeth N last week. That was fun.
Heard.
I will put up a little shrine in Victoria. Wilted flowers, a soggy pic of you, with a cardboard sign saying ‘Say her name!’ I promise.
😂😂😂
Love this, you are my newfound favorite on Substack. All the sad and mad news and articles, humor is a welcome change. If we don’t laugh at these things, we would be crying! I am considered a “tail-end” Boomer at age 65 who thinks that yes we don’t want those wonderful manicurists, hairstylists etc. to go away. We need them, but those genZ ers who are crying because they can’t afford anything may have a to pinch those pennies for a while until they can afford the luxuries. As someone who lived in a double wide trailer the first 10 yrs of marriage, but built a beautiful dream home a few years later, I can say it’s worth the wait, I mean work.
😊 🙏
That’s funny about going from a double-wide trailer to dream home. Now the new dream home will be a double-wide trailer! I actually kind of fantasize about living in a trailer now… life on the road, with my dog, going from cold plunge to cold plunge… can I put a sauna into one of those? It’s all just fantasy at this point but it does cross my mind…
Lol travel trailer sounds pretty awesome too! But if you go double wide, make sure the kitchen floor isn’t particle board underneath😅
I am a boomer and I resent your premise lol.. I grew up on a farm and started working at age 9 and am still working at 61 no shame in working hard and living well below your means..My parents lived through the depression and WWII and my mom told us stories about how horrible the depression wasn’t how neighbors helped each other and there was a real sense of community.Now it’s all about divide and conquer well this American Citizen isn’t playing that game.Thanks for a great article and a few laughs
Age 61 isn’t really ‘boomer.’ I know they say it is but it’s so close to the tail end and people your age tend to have more in common with GenXers. They’d actually a name for your cohort… the Jones generation.
Anyway, I’m not blaming boomers… certainly not all boomers. I’m saying a general trend is for GenZ to express these frustrations and for some boomers and also some GenXers to say “pull up your socks!”
And GenZ does have to pull up its socks. As I said in an earlier comment, they have to stop trading their time for money, open AI-proof businesses, get really imaginative. Which isn’t to say I don’t sympathize.
Yells at his staff a lot apparently too.
Who does? Not Mystic William!
No way! Never.
Biden, I think?
I would be shocked if he didn’t.
yes, I heard that 😾
I somewhat agree with everything you have said. But…not totally. When I had a bar my cocktail waitresses were shocked my Liz owned a house. I said ‘how much do you spend a month on cigs and drinks?’ It turned out in three years they could have all saved enough for a down payment. Right this minute it is hard to buy. But this changes over time. In fifteen years we should have a massive price correction on housing. Kids 20 now will do great. But not if they don’t start saving now. And likely we will have another good buying period between then and now.
I agree with what you say too. Also, GenZ has to get a little more creative. They have to stop trading their time for money and start a business. Yes, the economy’s a shitshow. But people became millionaires during the Great Depression. There is always a way…
Brilliant-- bravo
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THIS MEANS WAR
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Trudeau’s solution to high grocery prices is to tax the corporations more. And the shit rolls downhill.
Then he can announce a new cabinet position: Minister of Groceries. Subsidy coming soon... but only in Conservative-voting strongholds.
Don't give them any ideas!
heh heh heh... right!
Actually you ought to be blaming the political class. But no, to you it’s a particular age group. lol. Get a fucking life. Quit whining. And stop voting communist.