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>>>Given the extortionist tactics of the air traffic controller union at the time, one can hardly blame Reagan for his "anti-union" response!
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>>13K people were extorting the US Government, the most powerful entity in human history, by threatening to stay home?
>>Right.
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>In Kevin's defense - a few more people than the 13,000 would of been staying home if no planes could take off or land.
Yes.
So the US Government, with hundreds of thousands of troops armed with heat seaking weapons, enough aircraft to carry out a few thousands sorties per hour, enough tanks to level Chicago in a couple of hours, enough aircraft carriers to turn any continent on earth into toast in few hours, enough nuclear weapons to blow up a few solar systems, a CIA which can track the burp of a goldfish and enough money to buy whatever else it MUST have was being extorted by some guys who wanted to stay home?
Got it.
Can't let that happen here.