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The single piece of legislation that put the industry back 40 years and caused major strife within the ranks of labor due to the ensuing strikes of the early 80's.
Every time we think of what this profession could have been and should have been we can thank the big Democrat Jimmy Carter. It's amazing that we even have a profession after that reign of terror. Just look at what he did to ALPA.
You’re not wrong. But, without deregulation 60% of us would be selling shoes or life insurance instead of flying airplanes for a living. Regarding what Jimmy Carter did to ALPA, remind me? I’ve read Flying the Line and the Reagan years were much more detrimental to this profession than Carter’s term.Originally Posted by baseball
So Jimmy Carter's Airline Deregulation Act never happened right?The single piece of legislation that put the industry back 40 years and caused major strife within the ranks of labor due to the ensuing strikes of the early 80's.
Every time we think of what this profession could have been and should have been we can thank the big Democrat Jimmy Carter. It's amazing that we even have a profession after that reign of terror. Just look at what he did to ALPA.