OT: Lumber prices double, triple, cost of new house +25K

Back to the price of lumber. Something is wrong when you can buy baltic birch plywood for less than sheathing grade spf

You never saw anyone on the minimum wage living in a nice refrigerator carton under the bridge.

Hardly surprising.

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag, stupid guy.

Yep, Trump f***ed up, again. About the only thing he didn't f*ck up was Syria.

I've mentioned it before but by chance I found Vonnegut's first book in the high school library and read it.

It hit home because I knew my path was pointed toward the local engineering school and unless I really screwed up I would be part of the engineering and managerial caste.

That was the early '60s and there still were good paying blue collar jobs at the mills and factories but they were going fast.

Bring on the Ghost Shirts.

I went to Lowes today for the first time in a long time to buy a few boards. It surprised me at the prices of them. About $ 10 for a board of 1 inch by 8 inches and 6 feet long. Forgot the price of some plywood that I was not going to buy, but just wanted to look at the price. Seemed way high from a few years back.

That is going to be true no matter what. All raising the minimum wage does is raise the poverty level and there will still be that transitional area where salaries do not get you out of poverty, at least as far as government programs go. They peg poverty at a certain percentile of households.