-=> Quoting Charles Murray to Dennis Martin <=-
 CM> I am 43 yrs old now, and when I was 12
 That calculates to be 1966?
 CM> I could work two hrs and
 CM> make $6. cutting grass... a 16 oz coke was a dime, a gal of gas
 CM> was 16 cents and a gal of milk was 39 cent...beef was 31 cent a
 CM> pound and breed was less that 15 cent.
 Prices were _really_ that low where you lived in 1966? Let's see... In 1966,
 I was living in Southern California. I don't remember gas being sixteen
 cents a gallon. I should probably check a few newspapers of that time and
 check prices.
 CM> where were you before
 CM> Johnson ? Oh and wages we so low a family only needed one parent
 CM> working to have a nice place to live and a good car to drive
 CM> and could send a kid to college . Yes low wages add still all
 CM> that before greed and intrest hikes!!!
 
 That's what personal freedom is all about, Charles. The freedom to charge as
 much as you want for a product and the freedom to refuse to work for a given
 wage by going out on strike for higher wages. It's a vicious spiral. So 
hich
 would you prefer the government control? Wages or prices?
 
 By the _vote_ of the public majority, the minimum wage was just increased
 here in Oregon. I suspect that prices will rise accordingly.
 
 Jim
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