I remember when penny candy went to nickel candy under Pres. Nixon, and applied what we learned in our school “Weekly Readers” to figure that out. Of course there were larger problems. A few years later, my dad lost his business due to general economic woe with high inflation, and I’m pretty sure everyone remembers how personal and smaller business econ went in the 80s. I don’t know why we have to repeat history, when certainly more than a few people can remember this stuff. But, here it is in a concise video. Sharing it would be awesome!
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My timeline: I came home from the Army call it late early seventies and went to work in the woods for the sawmill g’da built. First job I had was shoveling snow ~ it was in the union contact that timber-fallers didn’t shovel snow. Hire a Young Logger. Worked a season as a log-brander, again an entry level job; then in the mill for the winter, in the mechanics shop and pulled a little green-chain. They sell Very Expensive Womens’ Underwear there now. Back out in the woods for a season and then ((( AND THEN ))) … they brought all the old-timers into the mill and laid-off all the young union loggers. Told us to be “Independent Contractors”
And that was the end of the Oregon Middle-Class …
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Thank you! I cannot understand why people don’t remember, and prevent. Sheesh.
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Oh, Reagan, making union busting great again….
My young nephew had a school project in his high school history class to interview someone older, so he interviewed me and hubby.
We gave him the details on Reagan, how he broke the Air Traffic Controllers union, how he allegedly took credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall that Gorbachev had worked so hard for, and how that little move resulted in the Wall staying up for an extra six months. I think we threw in how the VA hospital system felt free to violate their contract with veterans, refusing them the promised care because, after all, what could veterans do about it? And what had they done for the U.S. lately?
Nephew did his project and aced it. He told hubby later that he used what he got from our interview in projects for the rest of that year.
I like to think he learned something about recent history, too, since his parents were staunch republicans at the time. I suspect that republican presidential activities got glossed over or ignored when they went full F the People.
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Thank you for doing that, and for sharing it here, MDavis! It may seem like a little ripple, but it helps to make a wave. Thanks!
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