Would you care to explain how Reagan's firings are now responsible for what you say is an imminent shortage of air traffic controllers now? An overwhelming percentage of of the controllers who were fired in 1981 would be retired now had they not been fired since most of them had 5, 10 or more years on the job. Don't they have a 20-year retirement plan? So how do the 1981 firings have an impact now? Why haven't they been hiring sufficient numbers in the many years since 1981? Hell, let's blame FDR and JFK while we're at it. Jose Prize Inquiring minds want to know In a message dated 6/6/2003 9:24:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: Strike by air traffic controllers looms, threatens airport > operations > Date: 6/6/2003 9:24:20 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx";>DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > In a message dated 6/6/2003 6:02:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > damiross2@xxxxxxxxx writes: > > <<No federal government agency is allowed to go on strike. The original ATC > union found that out a few years ago when they went on strike. Fortunately > at the time we had a president with kaonies >> > > It was over 20 years ago. I don't know about kahonies, but he certainly did > not have his wits. That move by Reagan caused the imminant shortage we have > comming up in ATC, along with the mandatory retirement age. >