In 1980, I made $23,409 working at a grocery store

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23. How about this

Yesterday I told a Safeway checker, that In 1979, I lived with a gal who was a Safeway Checker, with five years on the job. She earned 22.00 an hour.......

I asked a Safeway Checker yesterday, how much a checker, after five years, earns. She said between 16.00 to18.00 an hour
She just stopped and stared at me, her mind churning with that fact......

2025 minus 1979 = 46 YEARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FAR WORSE is HOW MUCH HAS THE COST OF LIVING GONE UP IN THE LAST 46 YEARS............

In 1980, HWBush and his CABAL went all out to destroy the middle and lower classes for EIGHT long years........and the RepubliCONs haven't stopped trying ever since...........

From memory, I could easily list many direct hits on all of us by the RepubliCONS by HW and his CABAL. Which provided a really strong foundation for everything they have accomplished since then.

Some of us here on DU became extremely politically aware of what was happening at that point. Many of us were screaming our heads off, from the rooftops, ever since..........Many Dems told us to get off our fanatical soap boxes. There was even a whole group that called themselves "REAGAN DEMOCRATS"..............

As I have said many many times here, the perfect title for a book about the last 45 years would be:

WHILE THE NATION SLEPT........................

And it wouldn't be just a single book, but a group of books would be needed that would resemble the World Books, or Encyclopedia Brittanica.....