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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how liberals are all for affordable housing then turn around and say not in my backyard. Homelessness and affordable housing are dem created problems. Doesn’t happen where republicans control because they fix the issues for the blue collar working class.[/quote]

Name me one issue that Republicans have fixed for the blue collar working class.  Democrats support strong union rights, higher minimum wages, strong labor provisions in trade agreements, workplace safety laws, stronger health care programs, Affordable Care Act, etc.  The prime beneficiaries of all of these policies are the blue collar working class.  Republicans oppose all of them. [/quote]

What is interesting is that you take as a given that all those things are good for blue collar working class people. 
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1.  strong unions:  like the Chicago Teachers Union that has shut down the schools, many of which serve the blue collar working class or non-working class
2.  higher minimum wages:  which spur automation so that there are fewer jobs for the blue collar working class
3.  strong labor provisions in trade agreements:  which offshore blue collar jobs and more and more, white collar jobs -- it used to be a liberal becomes a conservative when she is mugged; it is now a liberal becomes a conservative when her HR job is move to Bangalore
4.  workplace safety laws:  that are ignored by one of the largest employers of blue collar workers in the country - Amazon
5.  stronger health care programs:  the Affordable Care Act that made many companies employing blue collar workers stop providing health insurance and leave them to seek it at higher cost on the ACA market

With the growing power of blue collar workers because of labor shortages,  blue collar workers will move up the pay scale and power scale.  Them what will the Dems do with only the underclass as their supporters?[/quote]

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