What Percentage?

[gordon stelter]

     Yeah! As well as that agency from D.C. that
usually monitors elections in third world countries
for fairness and honesty!!! No fooling! By the way, I
just heard that Jeb's daughter was arrested for her
THIRD drug offense. Isn't that a "Third-Strike",
requiring a Federally mandated, lengthy prison term
under laws created under Reagan-Bush? I know it
would've in George's Texas!
     Thump

--- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I just read an article in the New York Times about
> the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer,
> aka, the shrinking middle class. Guess which end of
> the spectrum most piano technicians are at. Please
> keep that in mind this November - and vote. I hear
> Jimmy Carter will be in Florida this November!  :-)
> 
> Terry Farrell
>   
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 2:31 PM
> Subject: What Percentage?
> 
> 
> > Hmmm? I would have thought this original query
> would have brought more
> > comments. I went to the website for the cost of
> living index. There was,
> > available, a calculator. I ran the numbers of what
> the "good" tuners were
> > charging in 1972, when I first started in this
> business. The tuners of that
> > time, in my area, were charging between $25.00 and
> $30.0 for a regular
> > tuning. Using the little calculator: @ $25.00 in
> 1972, the equal dollar
> > value today is......(drum roll!)<G>: $108.25!!!!
> > That figure is, I'm sure, much higher than what
> current Tuners are charging,
> > in my area.
> > Assuming that the $30.00 figure, (of 1972), was
> what the "better" tuners
> > were charging, then todays equivilant would
> be:.........(Big Drum
> > Roll!!!)[G]: $129.90!!! Wow!
> > I have a feeling we have not kept up with
> inflation. Anyone care to comment?
> > Best Regards,
> > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> > 
> > Been There, Didn't Like It, So I'm Here To Stay!
> [G}
> > 
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