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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coinhead63, post: 1047246, member: 28001&quot;]Back at the turn of the century (circa 1900) a rifle cost about 8 dollars.&nbsp; A laborer had to work at least a week to earn the money to buy that rifle.&nbsp; Take a laborer of today and he/she has to work about the same amount to buy the same quality of craftsmanship rifle.&nbsp; Putting purchasing power into context of manhours per purchased item, we aren&#039;t far off from &quot;way back when&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As far as taxes are concerned, the government was not initially designed to be&nbsp; the creator of jobs, provide had outs, etc.&nbsp; It was to create a union of individual colonies whose sum total strength would be greater than if allowed to be individual countries.&nbsp; Government has become an over fed pig that needs to go on a diet and stop trying to legislate everything in our lives.&nbsp; Ronald Reagan and other prior presidents felt that the government was spreading it&#039;s tentacles were it shouldn&#039;t.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not only should we be concerned with the government&#039;s debt but also our trade deficit-especially with China.&nbsp; If people are serious about making the dollar strong again, quit buying products without first finding the country of origin.&nbsp; Shame on Whitman and others for having an &quot;American&quot; product made in China!&nbsp; I myself am willing to spend more for an american made product if it meets or exceeds the quality of a comparable product from the far east.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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