Ran across this while using The Google this morning -

Damn, it doesn't really seem like all that long ago when I was a college sophomore...:doh:


1968 Prices:

House $40,000.00
Car $2,450.00
Milk $1.21
Gas $.34
Bread $.22
Postage Stamp: $0.06
Avg. Income $7,844.00

President: Lyndon Johnson

V.P.: Hubert Humphrey

1968 Top Songs:

HEY JUDE - BEATLES
GREEN TAMBOURINE - LEMON PIPERS
LOVE IS BLUE - PAUL MARIAT
MRS. ROBINSON - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
LOVE CHILD - SUPREMES
TIGHTEN UP - ARCHIE BELL & DRELLS
LADY MADONNA - BEATLES
HELLO I LOVE YOU - DOORS

you know, doing the perectages based on costs and avergae income, we're not any worse off than we were 40 years ago.
unfortunately still at war.

Yup, shortly after I posted that and did the quick arithmetic - with the exception of milk, everything is proportianate in terms of pricing to income -

Just multiple everything by 10 and see what it looks like compared to the wages and cost of living in 2009 - not much has changed by percentage of income at all, really

And as for the war(s) now and then, in '68 at least we stood up on our hind legs and did something about it - as opposed to '01 thru '09, when damned few had the balls to say a frigging thing......:doh:...

no commies drove passenger planes into our buildings

And Saddam had nothing to do with that, either - :)

very true