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The capitalists have never been the friend of working people or the middle class. We have swapped our labor for their meager wages forever. They hate unions because it forces them to take less of the profits, at the benefit of labor. There has always been a struggle between the two since capitalism was born.
However, in the late 1990's, the struggle took a dramatic turn. When the NAFTA trade treaty was passed, corporations and capitalists were no longer dependent on American labor. They could get cheap labor in Mexico. But it did not take them long to see that they could get even cheaper labor in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other places in Asia. So buenos dios and adios.
Now we have seen over 50,000 American manufacturing plants go "off shore". How many jobs did we lose? They said we would create more jobs than we would lose but that was the "big lie". Even low-paying jobs throughout the South, like textile jobs, making shoes and shirts, were sent overseas. The tech industry, born in this country, deserted the workers and the nation at the first opportunity. They could get customer service reps in India and other places much cheaper than the $8-$10 they were paying American workers.
Now, we wake up and see that we have very few manufacturing jobs or jobs of any kind left in our country. About 20 million Americans are looking for jobs that no longer exist. The capitalists have finally won the long struggle.
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