We’ve all heard stories about mothers telling their daughters that it’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man and that money lasts longer than love. And then came the Feminist Movement and, for the last sixty years, women have been learning to support themselves and not depend on men to take care of their financial needs. But, now things are changing again. Whereas over the last half a century, women had been …
Most of today’s shoppers weren’t around when unions were so powerful they drove businesses out of the marketplace. I still remember Bethlehem Steel and the millions of things they did wrong that contributed to their demise, but I also remember how, when gasping for its last breath, the unreasonable demands of the union dealt its final blow. I still remember a city decimated when Bethlehem Steel closed its doors and left a whole town without jobs and without a future. …
Before labor unions became so powerful, we were expected to work weekends and holidays without extra pay. Anyone who wanted a job with the telephone company knew that Christmas was not a day that would be spent with family. It was also part of the hiring interview to make sure you knew that December 25th was no different than December 15th as far as the telephone company was concerned. In those days, there were the Blue Laws that kept stores …