David, I guess this should be titled "No good deed goes unpunished. Great job helping those who bought get some decent equiptment at a reasonable price. We middleclass people have been taking it in the shorts for 40+ years now. Maybe we can get some justice during this recession.
Here's an analogy that might make sense. In 1969 I bought a brand new Nova SS396 as a senior in highschool, It had the biggest motor available (375hp) a 4spd, posi, Black on Black etc. I paid 3500.00 for it. Now here 40 years later I bought a new GTO and it cost me 35,000. So prices of cars have gone up about 10X. The house I lived in then was a new one and cost 30K. It now costs 600K, its gone up 20X. Minimum wage was 1.16 then,I worked in a factory for 3.50 hr. Production jobs made 3-4X what minimum wage was. So if you use just the car scale (10X) you can see that minimum wage should be 11.60 per hour today and production jobns should be paying 33.00 per hour. Skilled blue collar jobs would be double that. So what happened??? How did the working man get squeezed out of this wage scale that back in the 60s he could actually raise a family on. It didnt just happen by accident.
I pass this along for those who havnt lived long enough to notice the changes that are ongoing in our country.
Michael
