Your Thanksgiving meal is 26% cheaper in 2018 than in 1986

Unfortunately like everything else in life, the left has destroyed Thanksgiving. What was once an apolitical, relaxing, and celebratory time with friends and family you hate, Thanksgiving is now a time to whine and pout about politics.

But if you’re someone who is still enjoying Thanksgiving, then you can take great comfort in this tidbit of information: Your dinner will be cheaper this year.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF)’s 33rd annual survey of the typical Thanksgiving Day dinner for 10, the real cost is $48.90, down from $49.12 in 2017, and the lowest it has been since 2010.

Moreover, your Thanksgiving meal is 26 percent lower than it was in 1986.

One more thing: You’re working less to afford the feast; it takes 2.14 hours to buy a Thanksgiving dinner, compared to 3.21 hours 32 years ago.

Even if it were $50 or $100, you should consider the following (courtesy of Liberty Nation):

First, when you’re buying a bag of carrots for $1.99, consider the following: Landowners had to invest in equipment, supplies, and labor to plant, pick, and package the vegetable. Then, the farmers had to transport the vegetable to a middleman who will then sell the carrots to a supermarket, which has its own overhead and competition with which to contend. There’s a lot that comes with selling carrots.

Second, if you’re purchasing a chicken salad sandwich from a delicatessen for $5, try to determine the factors that went into that meal. The chickens had to be raised, slaughtered, processed, cleaned, and transported. The grains had to be grown, and the bread had to be manufactured, packaged, and shipped. Don’t forget about the fixings in the sandwich. Employees to make and serve the sandwich had to be hired and paid, and the owner had many business-related expenses, from rent to hydro.

In the end, for everything that went into getting the carrots into your fridge and the sandwich into your belly, you’re paying only a couple of bucks. The kings and queens of yesterday only wish they had such luxuries!

Take a moment to be thankful for capitalism.