Ever hear of Inflation?

How about declining dollar values?

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
-mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson based on his letter stating:

"But this [the issuance of currency by the government and backed by coinage],the only resource which the government could command with certainty, the States have unfortunately fooled away, nay corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks. Say, too, as an additional evil, that the disposal funds of individuals, to this great amount, have thus been withdrawn from improvement and useful enterprise, and employed in the useless, usurious and demoralizing practices of bank directors and their accomplices."

Jefferson goes on to say:

"It is not easy to estimate the obstacles which, in the beginning, we should encounter in ousting the banks from their possession of the circulation; but a steady and judicious alternation of emissions and loans, would reduce them in time."

Wow, thanks for the memory :-)
It was the only place you could feed a family
of 4 that made everyone happy.

And you forgot to mention that at that time, Hamburgers were made from real beef, french fries were real potatoes peeled and cut right before frying and milk came from cows without hormones and feed out on pasture, not GMO corn in feed lots.

But dude, they get it to you faster :-)

(I almost drooled when I saw this.)