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To: TimF who wrote (341019)	6/21/2007 3:30:59 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572937

re: 1 - It isn't the same slice of bread. People get more and better health care now than in the past. Instead of one slice of wonderbread for $1, the benefit is paying for two slice of gourmet bread for the $5. Doesn't matter from the perspective of what it costs to live. If health care costs went up to 100% of salary would you be getting a good deal? re: 2 - You can reasonable adjust all compensation by the overall inflation rate, or if you have enough information (and we probably don't) you can adjust different categories of income by the inflation rate in the area where the income is spent. What is not reasonable is to adjust one category of income, that goes to an area with one of the highest inflation rates (medical care) by that extra high inflation rate, while adjusting all other income by the general rate of inflation, which includes the inflation for that high inflation area. Another 'Tim black hole' of nattering insignificance. re: Not graduating high school today amounts to making the wrong choice in life, and putting yourself at the bottom. And what do you get with a HS diploma, promoted to check out clerk at walmart from flipping burgers at McDonalds? re: People with good connections now, also tend to do fairly well, or at least avoid being very poor. Not talking about knowing the Mayor, I'm talking about working class connections.