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Yet I can still do-si-do my ass off if called upon to do so. In truth, being a pudgy self-conscious child in grade school, square dancing lessons was preferable to the horrors of dodge ball or rope climbing.

All the same, F*CK Henry Ford.

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i barbie!

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No kings visiting, tho

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I should have read better.

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He has the cold dead eyes of a serial killer.

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Hitler even gave him a medal.

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Just read a book about the rise of Nazi Germany and Fascists in Italy. There was mention of the United States paying General Motors and Ford reparations for bombing their factories in Germany after the war ended. The book is Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.

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So - at the lower end of your amounts - the equivalent of between $24 and $36k a year. Pre-tax dollars, one assumes.

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The history of Fordania, the planned city/rubber manufacturing centre in the Amazon is amazing! Total shitshow.

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I didn't know that. figures.

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I found a little factoid from answering a post on Twitter.

By 1940, there were only 30 million privately registered vehicles. Out of a population of 132 millions. It equates to one per household at best. And decades AFTER this revolution in manufacturing. Obviously, the COST of running a car was a bigger factor than just being able to buy one.

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Speak to the residents of Inkytown.

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Fed minimum wage would give you $14k a year pre tax.There are about 10 different ways to extrapolate relative worth of $ over the years, $5 from 1914 can go up to $600.

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I agree he wasn't a nice guy.

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Moscow Mitch has voted against raising minimum wage about 15 times, because he thinks $7.25 is being overly generous. $7.25 gets you $14,500 a year.

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It's Fordlandia.

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