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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Explain this to me:  If you are being left behind by globalization and not doing well financial, wouldn't you want an expansion of overtime pay? Wouldn't you want the Affordable Care Act in case you lose your job or don't have benefits at your job? Wouldn't you support the initiative to make college affordable so that your children will not experience what you did?  Wouldn't you want the tax code to ask more of the rich so that you, the poor, can enjoy greater benefits? Why are the "poor, white working class" folks supporting politicians (like Trump) who publicly spouse policies that will not benefit you?[/quote]

Typical arrogant, elitist socialist/liberal, thinking they know what's in the best interests of those perceived to be beneath them. Perhaps the best interests of the working class is to get government out of their lives.[/quote]

Uh, yeah, so that they can go back to working 70 hours a week in the mines for slave wages, in unsafe conditions, paid in scrip that is only redeemable at the company store, and when they get killed, the company will just dump the body in front of the family's house, and a couple of days later they come and evict the wife and kids out onto the street.  Not to mention the kids will be working in the mines at the age of 8 too.  So we can go back to when the Cuyahoga river was so contaminated that it would routinely catch on fire.  Or Love Canal.  Or the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.  If anyone in the working class thinks they need government out of their lives then all that says is that they have very little meaningful understanding of history.[/quote]

At least they had jobs then.  Now there are none thanks to the government's help in drafting NAFTA, allowing illegals by the millions to take American jobs, raising corporate taxes that drove them offshore, etc.   Don't need protections from your big bad employer if there is no job to go to.[/quote]

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