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"Who created the policies and negotiated the deals that allowed all those jobs }to leave?"
That's a good question and if you know the answer I'm certainly willing to listen. I don't know if you can lay the blame on any person or adminstration, but to forces in our economy that have made it convenient for employers to get away with paying lower wages and providing fewer benefits. I suppose part of it is that people are taking these jobs, despite the low wages and lack of benefits. Much of it is that big companies have came to look on employees as fungible and inherently replaceable. The culture has become that you fire workers whenever the spreadsheets demand it, without regard to the devastation it has on those people or their families. I was born and raised in this county, and I can only say there was once a greater sense of ethics and compassion.
