re: #43 Killgore Trout
That’s OK. We can blame wingnuts anyways.
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Actually, since it was privatized in 1980 before Reagan the deal was probably in the works for at least a year before that. These things don’t happen overnight. The deal was probably initiated in ‘78 or 79 leaving the lawyers enough time for negotiations and drawing up the legal papers. Most likely had nothing to do with Reagan.