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4. Yep. They don't care about the middle class here anymore. China's and India's emerging . . .

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 12:33 PM

Mar 2016

middle classes far outnumber ours and will buy their products with pay from our exported jobs.

All the corps need us for is to be low-wage service workers who vote against our own economic interests to keep their bought-and-paid-for senators and representatives in office.

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Turns Out Cheney's Energy Task Force [View all] scottie55 Mar 2016 OP

Cheney agenda was to Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #1

Yeah, they wanted control of keeping that oil in the ground so prices wouldn't go down brush Mar 2016 #2

thus squeezing the life 2naSalit Mar 2016 #3

Yep. They don't care about the middle class here anymore. China's and India's emerging . . . brush Mar 2016 #4

Have doubts about the so called Middle Class of China and India. Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #6

Their middle classes are emerging and China's ecomony has just edged past ours in size brush Mar 2016 #7

Agree with the premise of four fold population and the opertunities . Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #8

Yes, very interesting times. What an eye opener that some jobs are coming back here . . . brush Mar 2016 #9

The Jack Welch effect is coming to a end. Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #10

One could make the argument Cheney's Energy Task Force actual end game was.... Brother Buzz Mar 2016 #5