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| advancedatheist | Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 12:09 |
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 Level: 3 CS Original | I could go back a century, before the Federal Reserve System destroyed 96 percent of the dollar's value, and do some shopping. For example, I could go into a Best Buy in 1910 and buy an iPad for $20. | |||||
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| sorry | Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 13:24 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | The good ol' days. Back when literacy was due to skin color and not the crappy education we have today. | |||||
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| Edward L Winston | Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 14:33 |
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 President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho: porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion! Level: 150 CS Original | What's funny about the dollar's "value" is that while an ipad would have been $20 or so, that amount isn't the same as $20 today, but conspiracy theorists think it is somehow. | |||||
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| sorry | Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 15:28 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | What's also funny is the one's typically instigating that crap are the ones who were millionaires. | |||||
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| advancedatheist | Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 15:41 |
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Level: 3 CS Original | In a way, the Amish have the best case for this grievance. They buy relatively few modern goods, but a lot of the sorts of goods available on the market in 1910. The rest of us don't shop from the 1910 Sears catalog, however. | |||||
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