Recent content by Finiker

In 1979 I vacationed in Canada. On the way north I paid $4.00 a gallon for gas and found a Canadian dollar worth a few cents more than American. Don't give up on us just yet.

I know I'm in young folk's territory here but I was born in 1934 on a west Tennessee dirt farm. My grandparents didn't get indoor plumbing or electricity until 1950. People with heart disease or cancer suffered and died. There were no stents, bypasses, transplants, effective drugs etc. and the...