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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