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Losing ground: outsourcing jobs, harassing labor unions, repealing safety regulations, undercutting benefits: the Bush administration is clearly winning a great victory in its war on America's workers.(War On The Middle Class)

American Prospect, The,  May, 2004  by Faux, Jeff

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DURING THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL TV DEBATES, George W. Bush relentlessly repeated the tired Republican mantra that government, especially the federal government, is the enemy of American workers. As president, he's turned that rhetoric into reality.

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Actually, Bush is as much a big-government guy as was Lyndon Johnson or FDR. But in his case, Bush has used federal power to undercut workers' bargaining power, dumping workers out of the middle class and kicking the ladder away from those trying to get in. Jobs in factories and services that pay good wages and offer decent benefits are ...

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