Back to the Future
To people under fifty the recent talk of the need for more regulation of the marketplace and in essence, our lives, doesn't seem like such a big deal. To those of us over fifty, if you aren't a bit frightened or at least pissed, shame on you.
Let me elaborate. Not too long ago you moved to a new city. You went to AT&T or the "little bell" to plead for a phone. You might think that you are trying to get a drivers license, or that you're at the post office. " We may get to you next week", the cheery little lady says. Don't say anything or it might be two weeks. And you can have any color as long as it's black. And, oh yeah, it's $50 to install and another $100 or two locations, and on and on. Don't think about going to another phone company because there isn't one.
The paper reflects the latest strike by General Motors. More money, more benefits. You buy a car and at fifty thousand miles like "Mission Impossible" it blows up. If you hear a rattle you might look in the door and see if a good old UAW worker left a whiskey bottle in there. And oh yes, check the wheels and see if all the lug nuts are present.
Need some gas? Go down and get in line. What do you know, they are sold out.
If you didn't live as an adult in the sixties and seventies, you are not as in tune with the ramifications of what the present Administration is alluding to as I am. You see I remember wage and price controls, fourteen percent inflation, and twenty-two percent interest rates. And talk about the Iraq war, I remember the three Democratic wars, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. If you think 4,000 casualties is bad run the numbers on these boys.
I remember the misery index and a military so weakened that we couldn't fly three helicopters into Iran to rescue hostages without them breaking down.
The saying "he who ignores history is doomed to relive it" is true. It is time for true journalists to come to the forefront and either educate or refresh people as to the real impact of the "good old days" with it's regulation and government control. And I mean the history, not a remade version the way the left would like it to be viewed.
Thank you Ronald Reagan for the twenty-five years you gave us.
Let me elaborate. Not too long ago you moved to a new city. You went to AT&T or the "little bell" to plead for a phone. You might think that you are trying to get a drivers license, or that you're at the post office. " We may get to you next week", the cheery little lady says. Don't say anything or it might be two weeks. And you can have any color as long as it's black. And, oh yeah, it's $50 to install and another $100 or two locations, and on and on. Don't think about going to another phone company because there isn't one.
The paper reflects the latest strike by General Motors. More money, more benefits. You buy a car and at fifty thousand miles like "Mission Impossible" it blows up. If you hear a rattle you might look in the door and see if a good old UAW worker left a whiskey bottle in there. And oh yes, check the wheels and see if all the lug nuts are present.
Need some gas? Go down and get in line. What do you know, they are sold out.
If you didn't live as an adult in the sixties and seventies, you are not as in tune with the ramifications of what the present Administration is alluding to as I am. You see I remember wage and price controls, fourteen percent inflation, and twenty-two percent interest rates. And talk about the Iraq war, I remember the three Democratic wars, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. If you think 4,000 casualties is bad run the numbers on these boys.
I remember the misery index and a military so weakened that we couldn't fly three helicopters into Iran to rescue hostages without them breaking down.
The saying "he who ignores history is doomed to relive it" is true. It is time for true journalists to come to the forefront and either educate or refresh people as to the real impact of the "good old days" with it's regulation and government control. And I mean the history, not a remade version the way the left would like it to be viewed.
Thank you Ronald Reagan for the twenty-five years you gave us.
posted by Oldhugh | 5:11 PM
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