About that $16 McDonalds meal story.

[Arthur_Frain]

39. Just turned sixty here.

I rember thinking way back when I first joined the workplace for minimum wage, watching the deductions for this tax, for that tax. Drove me nuts, but I knew I’d get raises, then of course with every raise, they took a little bit more too.

Then I noticed that the prices I paid at the store always went up. Not only that, they went up faster than any raises I was getting. This was my first experience trying to get people to realize than when things only ever go up (like in capitalism) it’s not a sustainable model. Nobody listened, nobody cared, we were all to busy trying for that next raise and buying cheap imported shit.

I don’t have that much longer here than you do, but man I hope you’re wrong about the hereditary dictator list you’ve got in mind for us. I do see how he can still win it, but I hope like hell it doesn’t happen. Got my garden to calm me down all summer long and feed me, and I can still fish in Alaska. Awful lots of maggots up here tho.