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JDgator wrote:The middle class is shrinking because we've allowed corporate America to marginalize the American dream. I truly believe that many of the people on the government dole would get off if they could land a decent paying gig. Our problem is the lack of economic opportunity, the lost path to the middle class. It has been outsourced, marginalized, and diminished by the organized and concentrated efforts of big business. That Federal immigration reform bill - it opens the doors to quadruple the number of temporary guest workers in high tech, high skilled jobs. Big businesses can in-source foreign labor and lay off Americans, they pay less than 1% in taxes, they are cutting benefits like health insurance. They know they can buy enough republican or democratic representation to shrug off any serious reform. That is why the middle class is shrinking. We have to recognize that they are multinational organizations that do not have the best interests of the American worker at heart.