One class disappears, another takes its place

Here's one way to think about globalization and its toll, especially here in the South:

Today, the jobs that are going overseas are the jobs that created the American middle class. They are the jobs that paid for homes and cars and all the consumer items that made our economy the envy of the world. They are the jobs that sent kids to college. And they are the jobs that baby boomer parents expected to pass on to their children — along with a deep faith in our country and our way of life.
Only it isn’t working out that way.

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