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I'd have to go with Jimmy Carter. Way back in the 1970s, Carter attempted to warn the country that the Elites were trying to takeover and that they were looking for cheap labor which was found once Nixon convinced China to meet and right around the mid 1970s, is when the Corporate Coup D'Etat began in which major US manufacturing companies began to ship American jobs offshore looking for cheap labors sans any benefits or rules and regulations and they found it in China.

Carter also tried to warn American hourly paid workers that the country was becoming one of consumption. From the 1940s until the 1970s, American hourly paid workers prospered because unlike today, workers shared in the profits that they had helped make and as a result of that, people were buying homes, multiple vehicles, etc and just spending money foolishly and by the time the 1980s rolled around, all that working class people had gained from the end of WW2 had been lost.

Gone were the decent wages, benefits, company retirement plans, labor unions, Government rules and regulations etc which had all been watered down and that's where we're at today.

And those jobs that were lost during the Corporate Coup D'Etat are never coming back and the jobs that replaced them were low paying menial service oriented jobs like UPS, Amazon, hotels, fast food etc.

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