Our middle class is what made the U.S. the envy of the world.

[Skwmom]

As they spread globalization did you really think they were going to let workers in other countries ask why they couldn't be treated like the middle class in America?

A thriving U.S. middle class was never part of the equation.

[antigop]

1. HRC: "Outsourcing will continue"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702780.html

When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Delhi to meet with Indian business leaders in 2005, she offered a blunt assessment of the loss of American jobs across the Pacific. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she declared. "Outsourcing will continue. . . . We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences."

Two years later, as a Democratic presidential hopeful, Clinton struck a different tone when she told students in New Hampshire that she hated "seeing U.S. telemarketing jobs done in remote locations far, far from our shores."

The two speeches delivered continents apart highlight the delicate balance the senator from New York, a dedicated free-trader, is seeking to maintain as she courts two competing constituencies: wealthy Indian immigrants who have pledged to donate and raise as much as $5 million for her 2008 campaign and powerful American labor unions that are crucial to any Democratic primary victory.

Despite aggressive courtship by Democratic candidates, major unions such as the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union have withheld their endorsements as they scrutinize the candidates' records and solicit views on a variety of issues.

High on the agenda of union officials is an explanation of how each candidate will try to stem the loss of U.S. jobs, including large numbers in the service and technology sectors that are being taken over by cheap labor in India. During the vetting, some union leaders have found Clinton's record troubling.

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Globalism has relied on the wealth of the nation being redistributed

globally along with a simultaneous reduction in the US's standard of living (meaning the middle class standard of living) to equalize incomes globally in order for globalism to work and succeed. According to Hillary in 1970, it was imperative and essential that globalism be implemented without the informed consent of US citizens in order for globalism to be successful. I disagreed then and I disagree today and I will disagree forever.

[mmonk]

3. True and it's sad people do not know it.

Americans are victim today to a captured economy and government as well as press that does not inform.

[Todays_Illusion]

4. What is now called the middle class, is no longer to be a home owner, renters only and wages too

low and no that is nearly zero affordable housing being built anywhere.

Where is this middle class and working class going to live?

[kgnu_fan]

5. 40 hours work week, paid vacation, work place injury insurance, no child labor....