Yeah, and I might live 20 more years and watch this unfold... while not being able to afford health insurance while living in a cardboard box..... Now lets walk down memory lane. I think I must have been 7 or 8 when we went to burger king. I think a bag of fries was 15 cents. Of course a house payment was $50.00 and gas was probably 10 cents a gallon. http://www.348-409.com/1964flash.html 348 & 409 were Chevrolet motors..... On 2015-07-24 18:46, David Schwartz wrote: >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Keith Smith >> wrote: >> >> On 2015-07-24 11:30, Steve Litt wrote: >>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:06:59 -0700 >> >> I remember the 80's. I was poor all the way through. I remember the >> 17% to 19% mortgages. It was a rough time...... But health care was >> cheap. I went to the ER in 1980 and received 3 stitches and the total >> bill was $35. I was making about $4.70/hr and gas was $0.85/gal. > > Kids today (so-called millennials) will remember fondly the “good ol’ > days” of their high-school years (2010-2019) when they could get a > burger for only $10; and they had to put this stuff called “gasoline” > into their car to make it go. These long-obsolete cars only got them > 20-30 miles per gallon and cost $4 or so — working out to $0.15 per > mile, give or take. > > In 30 years (2045), just about everything including transportation > will be powered by electricity generated primarily from renewable > sources for pennies per megawatt hour. > > At that point, most of the Baby Boomers will have died off and our > healthcare system will have imploded and transformed into more of a > self-directed system based more on health than sickness. (Hey, we can > always hope!) > > -David > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss