To: Don Corleone
Before UNIONS infected the Post Office Department stamps were 3 cents and post cards a penny.Yeah, and you made $1/hour. You left out that part.
29 posted on
01/25/2013 4:24:27 PM PST by
BfloGuy
(Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
To: BfloGuy
And you seem to forget that the government deliberately inflated the currency in order to pay off the war bonds and all the alphabet agencies created by FDR. The real measure of course is the number of hours/minutes you have to work to buy something after taxes.
31 posted on
01/25/2013 5:45:37 PM PST by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: BfloGuy
more like 50 cents an hour ~ but my Great Grandfather only paid field help 10 cents a basket of beans, and it was a huge basket.
56 posted on
01/26/2013 6:52:47 PM PST by
muawiyah
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