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   Hello JOE MACKEY!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 21.07.21 - 06:07, JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT:   
      
    JM>   One didn't make as money then then as now as well, thanks to inflation.   
    JM>   I recall making about $200 a month when I started   
    JM>   working full time in 1968. With that amount I rented a   
    JM>   house, brought furniture, food, a car, clothes, etc and   
    JM>   had a little left over.   Gas for the house about $3 a   
    JM>   month, electric $2, gas for the car about 33 cents, etc.   
    JM>   While things cost more today, people have higher   
    JM>   incomes. Its a circle. Higher wages mean high prices   
    JM>   since the companies have to pay their people more, etc.   
      
   It really doesn't *have* to be that way. Except for the extra     
   bills that the mint my print, all we're doing is pushing the     
   same money around.   
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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