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Date Posted: 13:45:21 07/19/99 Mon
Author: Carole Clark Metheny
Subject: abused

I mourn the loss of responsible government. Prior to the
Nixon years and double digit inflation, money was worth more. I bought a house and an acre of solid property in
l965 for tenK; for the same price today I'd get a huge
guffaw from any person who sold real estate.
My first job paid .50/hr. and my first real job paid $l.25.
Back then, I could envision paying ten thousaand hours
of labor to buy a house. Money, no matter how much, buys
less now. The Mr. Mort dress I bought for fifty hours of work
in 1963 isn't for sale now, but if it was, I couldn't afford to
buy it, having been subtly priced out of the market by the
disparity between wages and inflation.
I survived the wage/price wars by becoming a Reagonomics gypsy, back in the '80's, and I'm scared.
The $ I could earn were eroded by taxes, less the fact I
had to eat, pay rent and utilities, and keep a vehicle in
gas, tires and repairs.
For some reason, I don't want to anticipate a retirement that
includes sharing the last can of tuna with my cat.
Actually, I'd like to have the earache that raised the
retirement age by the behind, so I could kick it. I have no
doubt it was the same piece of crap who proposed the
Medicare tax.
I wish I'd have been given the option of deciding my own
retirement plans. I was raised in a lower-middle-class family
who survived the Depression and who thought Franklin
Delano Roosevelt hung the moon, along with Betty Boop.
My parents had no way to prepare me for the IRS, let alone
for the Social Security System.
My generation fought in Vietnam and took a short stroll on
the moon. Surely to God we've earned the right to quit
working when we're tired.

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