when they petitioned for one in the 1940s—but it was still a far cry from what Millennials and Zoomers are facing today as giant trillion-dollar corporations employ the billion-dollar union-busting industry to keep them from having democracy in the workplace.
Nonetheless, employers have big bucks and can buy a lot of elections and politicians: what started as a trickle in the 1950s has turned into a flood since Reagan's presidency. Today right-to-work-for-less states My mom paid her own way through 4 years of MSU in the 1940s with the money she made as a summer lifeguard up in her home town of Charlevoix, Michigan. My dad, like most men of his generation, wasNow, Republicans have not only changed the bankruptcy laws so that you are no longer"cleared" after seven years like it was when I was coming up, but you can't even discharge student loans in bankruptcy.
Buying up small businesses and crushing them together into giant conglomerates, shedding"excess employees" and employing"economies of scale" were the main way to make money, instead of serving customers and local communities. Drug companies weren't monopolistic monoliths—it was an incredibly competitive industry—and pharmaceutical prices were reasonable, too. The country wouldn't have tolerated asses like"Pharma Bro" back in the 1960s and 1970s and insulin, which only costs pennies to make, was dirt cheap.
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NOT ALL OF US!!
Rove, Bush Sr, Roy Cohn began will do anything for republicans to win & chose Reagan. Carter interfered w/lobbyists just as Ford did. Their people made deals for release of hostages to Reagan. If there had been social media internet, no Reagan. It was their first coup.
PalmyraJones2 Reagan was such a failure. I don't understand why we lionize people like this!
kevjones30 Apologize to Gen X, too.