re: #240 Decatur Deb

Just back from several days at a small Alabama state park. Here’s a photo the park host made of our cabin.

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Mandatory political content: It was built by a 200 man CCC company in 1935. The framed document over the fireplace is the Thanksgiving, 1935 menu. The men building it got 30/month, 25 of which was deducted and sent home to their ‘relief’ families. I doubt the congress of the country holds the brains and good will to ever do such a thing again.

Adjusted for inflation, $30/month in 1935 works out to be about $3 an hour today. Granted, circumstances were very different back then, but work keeping in mind.