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To: Steely Tom

These problems have been brewing long before Obama. It started when we opened our borders to unlimited free trade and migration from the third world. The heavy industry left, and all that remained were service industry jobs that paid below average wages.

Once this happened, everyone was told to go to college. All that did was place monstrous debt on kids who now have no chance of ever living a financially independent life.

Meanwhile, there are the elites in the big cities that are driving up rents and COL on people that can already barely afford to live. We are creating a two tier society: The ultra rich, and everyone else. The once great robust middle class is now gone. That stabilizing force is being replaced with armies of low wage immigrants and underpaid Americans. All brought to you by the Chamber of Commerce and politicians that sold you out to NAFTA, GATT, etc.

Trump is doing great things to get us on the right track, but there are still a lot of citizens out there that are hurting in a bad way from 20+ years of unrestrained free trade and globalism. I help out at a local food pantry in Tacoma, WA, and much to my surprise, I see many middle aged white men with families using our services. Lets do what we can to help our citizens in distress.


69 posted on 05/17/2018 10:50:42 AM PDT by WilliamCooper1
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To: WilliamCooper1

A good, if somewhat depressing, summary of the current state of affairs.


70 posted on 05/17/2018 10:54:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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