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To: Fai Mao

>> In 1979 inflation was like 17% and the interest on a new car loan was 20%. Minimum wage was $2.25 an hour, or maybe a little higher.

I remember those years... as do a LOT of us here. We dealt with it. Back then it was considered important and ethical to pull your own weight.


29 posted on 05/02/2026 8:25:13 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I remember it well also. That’s why I knew inflation was bad in 1979, but it was not 17%.


30 posted on 05/02/2026 8:32:20 PM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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