Campaign donations from the extremely wealthy.
The main reason for the Republican tax cuts. (And for privatizing the military.)
The rest of the money goes into funding off-shore companies, like Halliburton, oil companies, investment in Chinese manufacturing plants and high-risk, high reward and ultimately damaging investments such as hedge funds with sub-prime mortages.
Unions created a middle-class, the American dream, a way out of poverty, none of which is available to a very, very significant part of America today thanks to the destruction of the middle class. By Conservatives.
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