Is the $100 bill the new ......

[Stinky The Clown]

This was at my grocery store the other day.



A buck twenny nine fer a lemon. ***ONE*** friggin, gawdamm lemon.

Today I went there to get some ingredients for supper. I got a few other things. My debit card got hit for %57. I had three crappy little plastic grocery bags.

Last time money got this worthless was in the 70s ...... who remembers stagflation and 21% mortgages?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. has been for a while

$20 equivalent to fill up a gas tank

the only thing that has not gone up like that is wages, of course

[shraby]

2. Guess they'll just have to sit there and shrivel up!

[asdjrocky]

3. Damn.

I'm glad my neighbor has a lemon and a lime tree.

[Pab Sungenis]

4. My local convenience store used to refuse anything over a $20.00.

Now you not only need $50.00 bills there, they've come to expect both them and $100's too.

[gateley]

8. I actually remember going into little stores and saying "can you break a 20?". nt

[thunder rising]

10. I wonder what Malkin will do when her face starts rounding out and she looks more...unacceptable

to the right wing. I have to wonder if she will age like Geraldine Farraro (sp?) and become a saddlebag with eyes that spews hatred, lies and vile; not about anything important, but about her aging and shrinking audience.

$1.29 for lemons ... they are still only worth a dime.

[grasswire]

5. A person could fill a grocery cart for $25 in the 70s.

Early 70s. Now a sack of lemons will cost ya that.

[gateley]

6. This is part of our health and obesity problem.

As a DUer posted and I keep repeating every chance I get, you can get one orange for a dollar, or a McDonald's double cheeseburger.

This is absolutely horrifying. I don't remember it being this bad in the 70's -- was it REALLY so awful?

[Andy823]

7. The only good thing

Is that "every" american is feeling the crunch caused by Bush. All Obama has to do is get the race on the economy, and it will be easy to get voters to see that McCain has no clue at all what reality is in this country. He lives in his own bubble, and like Bush, he will work for big corporations, big oil, and the super rich.

McCain does not want to talk about the real issues, he wants to trash Obama and hope the voters don't see through his BS. It won't work!

[msongs]

9. get my lemons, orange, grapfruit, apples, peaches, plums from my trees hehe nt

[AlCzervik]

11. i'm lucky, i have a lemon and orange tree and they have been prolific this season.

[Warpy]

12. No, but a fifty is

It's still a little tough to break a hundred at a lot of places, but a fifty? No sweat.

And to think back in the 60s, I rarely carried more than a tenner because twenties were so tough to break.

[Tutonic]

13. Does your city/town have a 99 Cent Store? Buy my produce there.

Nothing over 99 Cents!

[Pab Sungenis]

14. All of our dollar stores

took down the "or less" signs and put up "or more" signs in their place. A couple of them even replaced the $1 in their signs with $5!