What in the Sweet Baby Jesus is going on? Meat prices.

[ticketplease]

Looking at the "Sale" ads and am seeing ribeye $20.99/lb Sirloin $12.99/lb. Have i been in a cave or is everyone seeing these rates

Yes, $5.98 a lb for Chuck Roast or steak. $3.49 a LB for Brisket, $7.99 for bone in Ribeye steaks on sale for the 4th or Labor Day. Probably be $7.99 a LB for Prime rib for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 20 LB tube of Hamburger $60 plus on sale. Haven't seen Pork Butts lately.

 

[clifish]

I'd be more inclined to ask - why a younger couple only making minimum wage decided to have three kids. Folks don't seem to realize that minimum wage was never meant to support a family. Go to college and earn a useful degree, or learn a trade. Working at the house of Ronald was never meant to be a life long career.

Chris

My thoughts exactly. Think about your financial ability to have kids and support them properly. Minimum wage was never supposed to feed a family of 4, it was for High school and college employment. Trades can't get enough people willing to put the time in to get to making $$$.

 

[Elf@shore]

My thoughts exactly. Think about your financial ability to have kids and support them properly. Minimum wage was never supposed to feed a family of 4, it was for High school and college employment. Trades can't get enough people willing to put the time in to get to making $$$.

Financing a family:
Sometimes its not that easy !
1: OPPOS we have a kid ! Did not happen to me, but Could of ?
remembering 2 GFs that were on the pill, was told afterwards ? WHY!?
Good Fr of mine had her 1st still in High School!?
I only had 2yr AAS degree, remember telling my MOM where I wanted to go to get my 4 yr degree? She laughed @ me said there was no $, My 2 sisters did get their Fancy 4 yr degree?
I moved out to Casino land , AC, NJ.
Went back to school and worked fulltime. Only took 2 classes per Sm.
Did not work! BURN OUT FROM BOTH SCHOOL AND WORK!
After a few years of heavy Seasonal work, Got a lucky break.
I Became the Shore Elf of Cape May, NJ.
Got married and had 2 girls, Preplanned as much AMAP $.
I was very fortunate, However there must be many that did not plan their life that they were given, even if they did initiate their destiny !?
Point is : S-H-I-T Happens.!?
Planning is a skill that needs to be learned and perfected.
Not everybody has that experience ?
I remember I was with my 1st born, she said to my wife: Had no idea what DAD was talking about?
Its called Experience that you obtain thru life!
Thanks MOM and DAD ! AMEN ....

 

[Redicans]

I know Hawaii is expensive due to location, but $28/lb is obscene! Tri tip steaks sound delish! the disparity doesnt make sense.

I hear you David!! Out of control!!

 

[Fueling Around]

All I know is we better get to liking soybeans, seems to be a large stockpile at the moment, can critters be raised on soybeans ? feed might be cheap at some point.

Soybean meal (the leftovers after processing for oil) is a popular hog feed. Used to be very cheap (thus the popularity), but the price climbed many years ago when soybeans hit a record high. Oddly the prices for meal haven't dropped as much when the price of raw soybeans dropped way off.

Some farmers around here raise soybeans as fodder for their cattle.

Which I understand. Same for the smaller hog & cattle operations that grow corn to self feed. Hogs get the dent corn (kernels) only whereas cattle get the whole corn plant chopped for silage.
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Problem with feeding any soybeans, grains or straight dent corn to livestock is the people with a lectin intolerance.

 

[Up_In_Smoke]

I'd be more inclined to ask - why a younger couple only making minimum wage decided to have three kids. Folks don't seem to realize that minimum wage was never meant to support a family. Go to college and earn a useful degree, or learn a trade. Working at the house of Ronald was never meant to be a life long career.

Chris

We certainly wouldn't want the CEO and Board of Directors eating beans.

Oh, and I forgot:

Then why is it called Minimum Wage?

 

[DougE]

Then why is it called Minimum Wage?

The origin of it was to not underpay, mostly teens with an afterschool job learning what working for a living was all about. It was never meant to be a living wage.

 

[Chasdev]

I think the idea was to prevent employers from using workers as defacto slaves.
Outside of urban centers where rents are non-stratospheric, it might be possible to survive with no kids a second hand car and an appetite for beans and rice.

 

[SmokinEdge]

I think the idea was to prevent employers from using workers as defacto slaves.
Outside of urban centers where rents are non-stratospheric, it might be possible to survive with no kids a second hand car and an appetite for beans and rice.

Minimum wage is a political creation.

Actually the idea is to learn an actual skill and or become educated. In that the minimum wage doesn’t apply because it’s never offered there as a starting wage. This isn’t difficult.

 

[DougE]

I started working part time around 1980 as a high school student with an after-school job.

"The U.S. federal minimum wage was $3.10 per hour in 1980, effective January 1, 1980, after increasing from $2.90 in 1979 and before rising to $3.35 in 1981".

There was no way in hell anyone could afford housing and food for that pay.

Like I said, it was meant to make sure teens were not being used as slave labor and nothing more.

 

[chopsaw]

after increasing from $2.90 in 1979 and before rising to $3.35 in 1981".

I started working when I was 14 , but my second job was an Usher in a movie theater . Had to be 17 , so that was 1977 . $1.90 an hour plus 2 movie passes . Loved that job .
Like said , it set a standard and protection for the workers .

 

[Elf@shore]

I started working when I was 14 , but my second job was an Usher in a movie theater . Had to be 17 , so that was 1977 . $1.90 an hour plus 2 movie passes . Loved that job .
Like said , it set a standard and protection for the workers .

I started as a paperboy Rte, But sold stuff before that!
Garden seeds, Scouts and sports benefits sales door to door.
it got to the point I created a base , the neighbors would ask what are you peddling now ?
My 1st job was @ a small Marina, that rented rowboats for fishing and crabbing.
Had to be there @ 4:30 AM, City Folks were waiting when I opened up !
I was going to ride my bike to work,5 M. DAD said no way ! Too many drunks still out!
Dropped me off to work in his PJs.
Wage was $1/ hr !
We worked our Ass off too !e
Repairing and painting the wooden rowboats, until they slowly bought new aluminum boats.
$ was not much ? But it went far !
As a kid, you could blow $20 /wk and still have $ left!
Even later in high school ,with a car.
It was affordable!
Not even $100 /wk went far !
Fill the gas tank, go out to McDs a few times a week, Movies, and still have $ Left!
Yes!? $ went farther and as prices rose so did the paycheck slowly!
As My DAD said, there were not as many people here years ago? He was right !
Back growing up?
Politics were very distant. As a kid, did not know what it was ?
We kinda looked at it as what you chose?
Like a Ford or a Chevy Car, What you were brought up with ?
My only experience as a Kid was I sent out fliers for a local Candidate and never got paid as I was told by him !?
Point is: Wages were not Political!
Simple: want more $?
Get a better job, another job and cut back on spending !
Most do the exact opposite.
I will stop for now... LOL!

 

[Brokenhandle]

When I was a kid we were up walking beans that were at least waist high by 7 am and 3 rows in you were soaked from the morning dew, 1/2 inch of mud on your shoes. By 10 am we quit and started baling hay, then unloaded it in the barn. By evening we went back to walking beans till dark. Didn't get paid, it was what was expected of farm life.
We all spend too much on certain things which we enjoy... it's our choice. Whether it be camping, going out to eat, vacations, alcohol or what not. Things cost more these days ... it's a part of life.

Ryan

 

[Chasdev]

Minimum wage is a political creation.

Actually the idea is to learn an actual skill and or become educated. In that the minimum wage doesn’t apply because it’s never offered there as a starting wage. This isn’t difficult.

Not to put too fine a point on it but..
The minimum wage was established in 1938 through the "Fair Labor Standards Act".
It set the minimum wage at $.25 per hour.
It was aimed to protect workers from exploitation and improve living standards during the great depression.

 

[Torch&Tone]

I started working part time around 1980 as a high school student with an after-school job.

"The U.S. federal minimum wage was $3.10 per hour in 1980, effective January 1, 1980, after increasing from $2.90 in 1979 and before rising to $3.35 in 1981".

There was no way in hell anyone could afford housing and food for that pay.

Like I said, it was meant to make sure teens were not being used as slave labor and nothing more.

$3.10 in 1980 was equivalent to about $12.15 in 2025 dollars.
The current federal minimum wage is $7.25.
I'm glad that you managed to get by, but minimum wage workers today are earning 60% of what you did.

The origin of it was to not underpay, mostly teens with an afterschool job learning what working for a living was all about. It was never meant to be a living wage.

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"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living."
- FDR

Actually the idea is to learn an actual skill and or become educated. In that the minimum wage doesn’t apply because it’s never offered there as a starting wage. This isn’t difficult.

Paying someone less because they are supposedly learning a skill is an internship, or apprenticeship. What 'skills' are a supermarket shelf-stocker, a janitor, or a customer-service rep learning, other than to be better at those specific tasks? Minimum wage is supposed to be the floor for sustainable employment. Subsistence living should be - at most - an option to speed up savings, not a requirement to survive.