What we watched during the Reagan years was the ever widening gap between the republican elite and the lower classes in our society. The first thing Reagan did was to fire Air Traffic Controllers, and the unions should have just banned together and shut down the country, but because many of these idiots were Reagan Democrats and the fact that it was an illegal strike, they backed out. I was there. Now look what we've got. All the scabs that unemployment can produce, as well as all the cowards from my generation who never had to go through what it takes to fight large corporations.
The only thing that has raised the standard of living for everybody, are the unions that raised the standard for union and non-union workers alike.
Now we're faced with a large number of union members who don't have enough sense to know where the real money and beneifits have come from. Large corporations have bought this country, as well as our political system, and unions are unable to assist their memberships, because of limited funds and it's all they can do to help fund the democratic party, to win elections. Wisconsin, this year, got just what they deserved. An entire nation of unions came to their aid, and rather than unite, and realize who really buttered their bread, they screwed over the states police, firefighters, and teachers. In the long run, they've single-handedly done away with social programs, public schools, womens rights, and the list goes on. Congratulations...The rest of us will have have to live with your legacy, and listen to pompous asses like Joe Scarborough, Scott Walker, Mitt Romney, Rick Scott, and other republican governors who are trying to eliminate voters rights, and the Nations right to work legacy. If your State becames right to work. Don't expect jobs to be what they once were. instead, expect what has happened in the nations coal mines, and the right to bargain in the public arena to dissapate. So lets all go back to Reagans trickle down theory and get pissed on.
