40 Years Ago Today

[kairos12]

Washed up Hollywood Hack Ray-Gun fired the Air Traffic Controllers.

In doing so he wrote the modern book on how to break Unions across America.

Union wages suffered ever since.

I hope he's rotting in flames.

[empedocles]

1. AKA as reagan-hood, who robbed from the poor, to give to the rich

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. K & R

[StClone]

3. Ronnie may have not been the first to go anti-human

But his demented leadership blew the lid off the idea of doing whatever it takes under the "1984" guise of "it's good for you." Well, it was all a lie. We are so bad off now thanks to his dementia. He was nothing more than a plastic, Presidential, pawn of the powerful. His devotees ran around the country re-naming, and naming, everything they could to make Ray-goon's fake greatness seem real. He was the biggest fraud as a Pretzelnit until the Apricot Ape.

[Omaha Steve]

4. K&R!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Worse yet, the head of the AFL-CIO at the time, Lane Kirkland,

fully supported him. And people wonder why unions so rapidly lost any kind of power.

I actually blame Kirkland at least as much as Reagan for the decline of unions.