[From comments made in the year 1955 ...]
1. "No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital. It's too rich for my blood!"
2. "If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
3. "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1000 will buy only a used one."
4. When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."
5."Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President."
How far have we really come in 2010? We're still complaining about the same issues, except, the numbers have changed. See? Healthcare... Energy ... Economy... Auto Industry. When I was seven in 1955, I thought my parents' complaining wouldn't be my problems when I became an adult - Hah!
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6 comments:
Wow...history has a funny way of repeating itself. The thing is how different money was back then. $15 per day in the hospital? Wow...
The fifth comment states that some baseball play just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play baseball. Baseball players now a day make millions of dollars a year just to play baseball.
$50,000 was top dollar then...but, like today, people still complained about the outrageous salaries of ballplayers - does anyone blink an eye A-Rod gets 20 million a year?
Gas was 25 cents a gallon...also, comics were about 25 cents an issue...man, back then, a quarter could actually get you somewhere!
Yes...for a quarter, as well, you could get a McD burger, with 10 cents change!
Haha.
1,2,4 are the funnest ones.
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