Letter: Outsourcing sinks middle class

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Friday, May 14, 2004 | 8:55 a.m.

Is America's middle class doomed?

For centuries, America's thriving middle class was the foundation of our liberties and the envy of the world.

But now an increasing number of debt-ridden Americans find themselves joining the "race to the bottom." Across the nation, communities are reeling as manufacturing and high-tech jobs are "outsourced" abroad. And even as our nation exports jobs that once opened the door to the middle class, we are importing waves of unskilled immigrants, including millions of illegals.

No longer America's protector, our political elite schemes to merge our country with the other nations of this hemisphere into a continent-spanning socialist megastate modeled after the European Union -- the deceptively misnamed "Free Trade Area of the Americas."

This subversive agenda can be defeated -- if enough Americans join in organized, principled action.

KEN HOVEY