Guardian - Live Blog: Reports in its 2.47pm post the following, " In the more than 150 years since workers first formed labor unions in the United States, no American president has ever stood “in solidarity” with workers on a picket line.....Biden’s predecessors were often far more hostile toward strikers. In 1894, Grover Cleveland dispatched federal troops to help shut down a railroad strike; during the Korean war in 1952, Harry Truman seized the nation’s steel mills in response to a steelworkers’ strike; and in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers. "
Lets Get Real:
The simple question I ask, do you see Presidents Kennedy or Reagan going on a picket line, lets recall that Reagan was ONLY President to have been President of his Union, the screens actors guild. As above shows Reagan actually fired 11,345 air traffic controllers when the went on strike, Reagan was a tough President but fair, he gave them notice of that fact and the day they had to return. This got the notice of the USSR, they saw that Reagan was a tough President, he was not weak like Jimmy Carter. The American voter likes to see some regal image of the Presidency, walking the picket line is not regal, makes you like a politician desperate for votes, and Biden could find himself needing the workers in these State to give enough electoral voters in 2024. Well if it a choice between Biden or Trump, it will have to be Biden, as long as he supports the Ukraine, and does not go gaga on the job.
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