1981: US Air Traffic Controllers are fired by St. Reagan

Forty years later, US air travel has never recovered from this. Plus, air traffic controllers continue to be overworked to the point of burn out. Computers still haven’t come to the rescue for such an undertaking and if you ever read the fine print with most software, air-traffic control is excluded if you utilize it.

I can’t exactly remember the circumstances leading to the strike which started several days earlier but I know it certainly gave Corporate Amerika a boner. To me, it was the most visible and nastiest wound to Organized Labor in the United States. Nevermind that St. Reagan used to be president of the Screen Actors Guild, you know, the union for movie actors. Then again, he turned out to be one of the worst SAG presidents in history. He utilized the position to rape younger actresses after his divorce from Jane Russell and he loved to snitch to the FBI on anyone who stood up to his rein of error, especially if they landed roles in films he wanted while his career was circling the crapper.

It was also a blatantly example of Republican hypocrisy at the time. St. Reagan and his fellow Sabre Rattlers loved to shame the Soviet Union and Polish Communist government for not letting Lech Walesa legally lead Solidarity in their strikes. Here I’m in agreement but you could count on the Bullshitter in Chief to label strikers in Latin American nations as terrorists and Soviet dupes.

Given this horrible event and its repercussions which CV-19, billion cock rockets and the housing crisis brought to light; these are just the beginning; I’m hoping younger generations are ready to start organizing. They’re calling bullshit on Amazon, Tesla and the rest of the Tech Industry. They’re calling bullshit on many others. They’re seeing how much better our EU compatriots are doing on healthcare, child care, compensation, vacation time and so much more. Thanks to the Republican and NeoLiberal War on Labor, Amerika is now the new Soviet Union…a Third World Country with a big military and nuclear weapons.

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