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   From: Zinger@BadS0Sad.com   
      
   On 10/6/2023 6:01 PM, Tommy wrote:   
      
      
   Fuck you "Tommy-lazy-Cocksucker.   
   Those air controllers working for Government should never have had a   
   Union. They should have been fired and blacklisted from any Government   
   job. The lazy bastards worked half a day and collected 3 times the money   
   real workers got. Their drug and Alcohol abuse surpassed every other job   
   including the Post office. Yet They could not be fired and many went   
   through Rehab at taxpayer expense many times. Reagan had been fighting   
   the Communist control of both Holly-Wood and Government Unions. It was   
   Democrats corruption that fed the communistic Unions and Caused Reagan   
   and others to flee the Democrat party and sign on as Republican or other   
   sane and thinking organizations. Reagan had been the president of the   
   *Actors Guild* Union and witnessed the selling out of America by your   
   kind. Maybe you should investigate how many people died due to Air   
   controllers substanc use and out right incompetence. The Air Fleet   
   owners brought down plenty of Pressure to insure the Unions got fired   
   until their demeanor had changed and Air Travel got safer from the screw   
   ups in the Air Traffic Controller tower. You can Thank Mr President   
   Reagan for your safe Journeys by commercial and private air today.   
   The party animals in the Air Controller business are pretty much gone.   
   No Fucking thanks to the Unions!   
      
   Real Middle class doesn't have Government service Jobs.   
   The real middle class works at civilian enterprise and creates business   
   that creates jobs and actually is the biggest block of hiring people.   
   Well over that of the Union or Organized plutocrats. Even most Unions   
   are insulted by the demands of some of its so called leaders. How many   
   people are going to buy $120 K cars and trucks if the UAW  gets its   
   demands? How many Robotic assembly plants will soon replace the Union   
   workers?   
      
   How many ambitious hard workers are stranded from Promotions by the   
   Seniority system that is loaded with deadwood long time Union deadbeats.   
   How many Union deadbeats collect huge paychecks for the period of annual   
   car building and then immediately sign up for unemployment and food   
   distribution? All the while stashing the $200K and upwards salaries   
   earned doing idiot assemby work.   
      
      
      
   > The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week   
   > Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers was the first huge   
   > offensive in corporate America's war on everyone else.   
   > Jon Schwarz   
   > August 6 2021, 11:37 a.m.   
   > Members of PATCO, the air traffic controllers union, hold hands and raise   
   > their arms as their deadline to return to work passes. All strikers were   
   > fired on the order of President Reagan on August 5, 1981.   
   >   
   > Members of PATCO, the air traffic controllers union. All strikers were   
   > fired on the order of President Ronald Reagan on Aug. 5, 1981. Photo:   
   > Bettmann Archive   
   >   
   > Forty years ago, on August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345   
   > striking air traffic controllers and barred them from ever working again   
   > for the federal government. By October of that year, the Professional Air   
   > Traffic Controllers Organization, or PATCO, the union that had called the   
   > strike, had been decertified and lay in ruins. The careers of most of the   
   > individual strikers were similarly dead: While Bill Clinton lifted   
   > Reagan’s ban on strikers in 1993, fewer than 10 percent were ever rehired   
   > by the Federal Aviation Administration.   
   >   
   > PATCO was dominated by Vietnam War-era veterans who’d learned air traffic   
   > control in the military and were one of a vanishingly small number of   
   > unions to endorse Reagan in 1980, thereby scoring one of the greatest own   
   > goals in political history. It’s easy to imagine strikers expressing the   
   > same sentiments as a Trump voter who famously lamented, “I thought he was   
   > going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be   
   > hurting.”   
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   > The PATCO saga began in February 1981, when negotiations began between the   
   > union and the FAA on a new contract. PATCO proposed changes including a   
   > 32-hour workweek and a big increase in pay. The FAA came back with   
   > counterproposals the union deemed insufficient, and on August 3, with   
   > bargaining at an impasse, most of the air traffic controllers walked out.   
   >   
   > It was unquestionably illegal for PATCO, as a union of government workers,   
   > to strike. However, which laws are enforced is always and everywhere a   
   > political decision: Wall Street firms broke countless laws in the run-up   
   > to the 2008 financial crisis, yet almost no executives suffered any   
   > consequences. Reagan & Co. wanted to send a message that mere workers   
   > could expect no such forbearance. Just two days after the strike began,   
   > the air traffic controllers were gone.   
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   > The significance of Reagan’s actions is rarely discussed today in the   
   > mainstream, and for understandable reasons: It was the first huge   
   > offensive in a war that corporate America has been waging on this   
   > country’s middle class ever since. As Warren Buffett — current estimated   
   > net worth $101 billion — has said, “There’s class warfare, all right,   
   but   
   > it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”   
   >   
   > The stunning victory of the wealthy over everyone else can been measured   
   > in several straightforward ways. During a speech last May at a community   
   > college in Cleveland, Joe Biden explained one of them:   
   >   
   >      From 1948 after the war to 1979, productivity in America grew by 100   
   > percent. We made more things with productivity. You know what the   
   > workers’ pay grew? By 100 percent. Since 1979, all of that changed.   
   > Productivity has grown four times faster than pay has grown. The basic   
   > bargain in this country has been broken.   
   >   
   > Productivity is a simple but extremely important economic concept. Over   
   > time, as technology advances and society learns how to use it, each worker   
   > can produce more. One person with a bulldozer can move a lot more dirt   
   > than one person with a shovel. One person with the latest version of   
      
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