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Okay, I am as stunned as the next guy over the price increase, but I have to say the MLK comparison is out of hand.
I had parents who were born during the Depression. Dad worked hard to support us. Mom worked hard running the household on a strict budget. I grew up watching Disney every Sunday on ABC and Mouse Club reruns and got in on the ground floor of the MMC reboot in the seventies and was All About the Mouse, believe me. I had schoolmates that would go to Disneyland frequently. We went once. We saved up and planned the trip and went, once, when I was seven, and that was that.
There is nothing wrong with telling kids "we can't do that (insert non-essential item) because we can't afford it." Zero. I heard it plenty of times as a kid, and frankly, it made me better at budgeting and realizing true value. Disneyland is a luxury, and I grew up very well aware of that fact. Disneyland is not health insurance, it is not bread, it is not a warm safe place to sleep at night. You will not get polio if you don't go to Disneyland as a child. You will not grow up unable to support your own family if you cannot afford to go to Disneyland as a child.