I'm glad to see somebody else has realized that both Rats and Repub's have declared war on the ever-shrinking American middle-class.
It started with Bubba, Algore and NAFTA and has accelerated greatly under President Bush and his super job killing / wage depressing illegal alien amnesty proposal.
"It" first raised "it's" ugly head with NAFTA - championed by none other than George Herbert Walker Bush.
George Bush and the End of Globalization?
However, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush was not satisfied with this distinction and he had a vision.
To create a free trade area between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
His vision was realized by his successor, Bill Clinton, who, early on, spent much of his political capital aggressively lobbying for the ratification of NAFTA.
President Clinton did this despite a deeply divided Congress, union pressures and the disapproval of many of his fellow Democrats.
This was President Clintons first act of political emancipation as a New Democrat. But it had been George Herbert Walker Bush, who ushered in a decade of global commercial integration.
His support for NAFTA was rooted in Ricardos trade theory that is, the belief that free trade is not a zero-sum game, but rather a win-win proposition.