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Who Killed the Middle Class?

Daddio7 Wrote: Feb 19, 2013 8:04 PM
Those high union jobs gave other Americans jobs selling things to union workers. Now the work is done in China, corporate profits are higher than ever. No union jobs or support business. How does this make our lives better?
"It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth -- a rising, thriving middle class."

So said Barack Obama in his State of the Union.

And for one of his ideas to reignite that engine, Republicans applauded.

"And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union -- because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs."

One wonders if any of those in the hall who rose robotically at the phrase "free and fair" were...

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