National Senior Pass prices rising
I just left the Ulysses S. Grant Nation Park in St. Louis County were I found out the Senior Pass cost is going up August 28th to Eighty Dollars. The fact of the rise in price is not news to me, just ...
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starcraft69 wrote:
I think the extra $70 over my lifetime will make it that I have to give up RVing How tragic. I feel so bad for all of us in $50,000 + rigs. How will we ever come up with $70 over the rest of our life.
Yup ... I run across that reasoning all the time ... and good old American Capitalism loves it.
The Capitalist Powers That Be want us to automatically accept - or not notice - or rationalize - the thousands of small increases that nickel and dime us to a slow death. A few more dollars leaking away here and few more dollars leakng away there ... and pretty soon you're talking about real poverty.
I watch, and challenge, and try to eliminate, the leaking dollars constantly because I've finally noticed over a lifetime that the somewhat big pile of money it takes for great RV trips is usually made up of a whole bunch of small piles of change that you kept from leaking away. :C
