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Old 07-21-2008, 02:38 PM
 
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Blame the Rockefellers.

It may take you hundreds of hours of research, but if you are brave enough to embark on this quest, you can/will find that I am right.
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Old 07-21-2008, 02:51 PM
 
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Sort of brings to mind that old ABBA lyric:

Money, money, money! It's a rich man's world.

or an old "badfinger" lyric

if you want it, here it is, come and get it
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Old 07-21-2008, 03:22 PM
 
Location: suburban Bangor
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I read recently that the $52 dollars an hour wages GM was paying were 68 percent of what workers were making in 1914, adjusted for inflation and taxes. Now they are expected to build cars for 19 percent of what workers were making in 1914.
Could you clarify this?
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