[ale] those of you reading this while within US jurisdiction should have a care....

[Irv Mullins]

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> > Ask yourself this question:  Are you better off today than you were 4
> > years ago?  Well, maybe not... how about 40 years ago?  ;)

Let's see: I was making $60 a week, buying a new Impala (327, a/c) 
and putting the rest  (!)  of my earnings into my college fund. 

Once in a while we would have lunch at a really nice restaurant, which 
might cost as much as $1.50. Under a dollar was the usual price at 
'regular' restaurants (Mary-Mac's)

About this same time, I moved into a brand-new apartment a few blocks 
from the beach in Santa Barbara. Rent was $110, phone $5, gas $5 or $6.
Gasoline was 19 cents a gallon, and it was pumped by college girls 
in bikinis. (No joke)

Tell me I am better off today.

Irv



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