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October 13, 2009

THE PEOPLE SPEAK: When bread will cost a whole day’s wages

I was sitting in a Fresno, Calif., bank in 1955 talking to a bank personnel, and I noticed a couple trying to get a loan to buy a new Chevrolet. The cost of this car was $1,500.

I told the person who I was talking to that that same car would some day cost $30,000. He said that would never happen, not in a million years.

When I started to drive, you could buy a gallon of gas for 25 cents a gallon. If somebody would have told me that someday gasoline would top $3 per gallon or more, I would not have believed them.

I have heard that the average salary per year for the working class is approximately $50,000 a year. In 1962 to 1970, I worked at a gas station for $1.25 an hour. I worked 10 hours a day and six days a week (Sunday off). My gross for the week was $75 before taxes.

In Revelation 6:6, the writer states that he hears four living creatures saying a quart of wheat costs a whole day’s wages. Out of a quart of wheat, you can make a loaf of bread.

In the near future, the way inflation keeps going up, a loaf of bread could cost $200 or a whole day’s wages. That’s what my Bible tells me.

If you think the cost of living is getting out of control, we haven’t seen anything yet. The price we are now paying will be just a drop in the bucket to what is soon to come.

Thomas A. Dick

Fort Gibson

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