DM>Charles, do you also remember the 25 cent per hour wage, and the great
  >depression?  Think about this too, the stock market crash of 1929 (which
Someone I know made a similar statement about ecomonics recently.  He
had been talking to his son about the cost of gas.  He said, "I remember
when gas cost 35 cents a gallon.  The son asked him, "How much did you
earn an hour then, Dad?"  Turns out 35 cents was a higher percentage of
the older man's hourly wage than the current gas price is of the younger
man's, or of the older man's also, for that matter.
                                    Sondra
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