On 4/15/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You know, these things kind of sneak up on you
> gradually so you don't notice the overall scale of the
> change when you're emersed in it. But I was
> impressively reminded today of just how enormous the
> gap is behind the Russian economy in 2000 and today.
> The wife of my coworker's is a medical assistant at a
> Moscow public hospital. In 2000, the average monthly
> wage of doctors in her hospital was about $80.
>
> Today, it is $1,200...
-- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles