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<p>[QUOTE="john65999, post: 8190863, member: 111931"]HERE IS A SIMPLE THING I TELL MY YOUGER FRIENDS:</p><p><br /></p><p>BACK IN 1982 PACK OF CIGS WAS 90 CENTS, A GAL OF GAS WAS UNDER A DOLLAR, WE MADE 4.15 PER HOUR MIN WAGE, COULD BUY ROUGHLY 4 PACKS OF CIGS, OR 4 GALS GAS, NOW MIN WAGE IS 10.15 (IN CT) A GAL OF GAS IS 3.59 A PACK OF SMOKES IS 11.15, SEE THE COMPARISON???? INFLATION TOOK A BIGGER ADVANCE THAN OUR PAY</p><p> SIMILARLY, A HOUSE I BOUGHT FOR 59K BACK THEN IS NOW WORTH 200K NOW[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="john65999, post: 8190863, member: 111931"]HERE IS A SIMPLE THING I TELL MY YOUGER FRIENDS: BACK IN 1982 PACK OF CIGS WAS 90 CENTS, A GAL OF GAS WAS UNDER A DOLLAR, WE MADE 4.15 PER HOUR MIN WAGE, COULD BUY ROUGHLY 4 PACKS OF CIGS, OR 4 GALS GAS, NOW MIN WAGE IS 10.15 (IN CT) A GAL OF GAS IS 3.59 A PACK OF SMOKES IS 11.15, SEE THE COMPARISON???? INFLATION TOOK A BIGGER ADVANCE THAN OUR PAY SIMILARLY, A HOUSE I BOUGHT FOR 59K BACK THEN IS NOW WORTH 200K NOW[/QUOTE]
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