Scott Walker Doubles Down on Ronald Reagan Firing Air Traffic Controllers

[hue]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-17/scott-walker-doubles-down-on-ronald-reagan-firing-air-traffic-controllers?cmpid=yhoo

For a Republican thinking about running for president, it's almost always good to talk about Ronald Reagan, the man many of the party faithful view as the best modern commander-in-chief.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did just that Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation when asked about what some have labeled as a gaffe he made in February. That's when he told a Club for Growth gathering in Florida that the most significant foreign policy decision of his lifetime was Reagan's decision to bust a 1981 strike of air traffic controllers, firing some 11,000 of them.

"Don't you think there may have been a few things—while I agree that that was a significant development—a few things maybe a little more important, like Nixon's opening to China, for example?" moderator Bob Schieffer asked. "The decision to go after Osama bin Laden? Do you really think that was the most significant foreign policy statement of your lifetime?"

[Turbineguy]

1. I'm missing something here...

Were the Air Traffic Controllers foreigners?

[RDANGELO]

2. They were unionised.

[Person 2713]

4. He called them(unions) the nation' s biggest adversary from what I understood of his gibberish Yep &

Busting a union strike was our best foreign policy statement in his opinion
Backs slave labor world wide I guess and can't wait to complete it as norm here if prez

[Octafish]

3. Guy makes clear the Koch agenda.

Easy to understand, too: More Walmart.

[ananda]

5. More slaves, more slaves!

I find it interesting that the morph to corporate-fascism
is about to take us back into slavery and eventually
into an oppression of women more vicious than I can
recall ever, and I lived a good while before Roe v. Wade.