These two things have devastated our culture and we have descended into madness.

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30. I worked in the steel industry for 40 years. We saw our jobs being sent to China

and did everything we could to stop it. We made concessions over and over to keep our industry alive.
I myself gave up more than $89000 in wages and benefits. The company kept a running total of our concessions
at the bottom of our checks promising every penny would be paid back. Then the company went bankrupt
(Actually 3 times total) and we got 13 cents on the dollar for what we gave up. The USWA warned Congress over and
over about critical jobs being sent offshore. Here we are with cars that can't be sold because we can't get chips from
China. Workers now blame the unions for failing to save our jobs, pensions and benefits. We have states like
WV that were totally controlled by Democrats now voting Republican. We had the steel and coal regions of
Ohio and PA that voted Democrat and now these areas are controlled by Republicans. The Republicans have managed
to turn the anger over losing our middle class to Democrats because Bill Clinton signed the Republican backed NAFTA Agreement.
I think passing the NAFTA agreement is single greatest reason we lost the middle class workers vote.