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SoCalDem

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17. Don't I know it..

Reply to raccoon (Reply #16)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:22 AM

Oct 2013

I spent a decade in Panama (came back to non-A/C Kansas in 1962)

In Panama, our cars had no A/C.. and neither did anyplace else (Rumor had it that the Officers' Club was air conditioned). Base housing had no glass in any window.. just heavy screens with mesh big enough for lizards to come & go & metal storm louvers.. Aaaah the good old days

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The day the middle class died ... [View all] MindMover Oct 2013 OP

That was the beginning of the end. Another of BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #1

I would go a decade back... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #2

Or took us off the gold standard. n/t BlueToTheBone Oct 2013 #3

Old article--strike was in '81. truebluegreen Oct 2013 #4

Not so, it started when the Trucking and Airline industy were deregulated. The Teasmster Union's demosincebirth Oct 2013 #5

I understand why Kennedy was behind it -- it wasn't anti-union then starroute Oct 2013 #6

I respect your opinion, but I lived through the middle class thriving. The ICC regulation kept the demosincebirth Oct 2013 #7

I don't argue with you about that part starroute Oct 2013 #8

One last point of information. Trucking companies did not set shipping rates. That was in the sole demosincebirth Oct 2013 #9

Sorry, but you are wrong. The ICC doesn't even exist as an agency anymore, shipping rates A HERETIC I AM Oct 2013 #13

Trucking is still one of the few service industries that is still close to MindMover Oct 2013 #20

^ Wilms Oct 2013 #10

It started with A/C in the hot & muggy south. SoCalDem Oct 2013 #11

I know there is some good stuff in SCal ... MindMover Oct 2013 #12

Great article, and post. Having grown up in the South without AC, trust me, you don't want to be raccoon Oct 2013 #16

Don't I know it.. SoCalDem Oct 2013 #17

Kick And Recommend cantbeserious Oct 2013 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author tconer Oct 2013 #15

+1 Enthusiast Oct 2013 #19

Yes, Saint Ronnie. Enthusiast Oct 2013 #18