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  • Count Your Blessings: Common folk live better now than royalty did in earlier times

    12/24/2014 7:27:13 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 49 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 12/24/2014 | Richard Rahn
    As we go into this Christmas week, you should count your blessings that you live in 2014. Would you prefer to live as the French King Louis XIV did (1643-1715), or as you do today? The average low-income American, who makes $25,000 per year, lives in a home that has air conditioning, a color TV and a dishwasher, owns an automobile, and eats more calories than he should from an immense variety of food. Louis XIV lived in constant fear of dying from smallpox and many other diseases that are now cured quickly by antibiotics. His palace at Versailles had...