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John Duarte: “The Chinese upper middle class is larger in number than…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published | Video Starts at 52:23

One is, as we don't drill american oil, we don't get water on the farms, we abandon our resource here in America, we shrink our economy. We shrink opportunity for our working families. The Chinese upper middle class is larger in number than America's working families today. If you look at our wage earning lower middle class, families that really want the american dream and are being pushed, they are outsized in terms of discretionary income and in terms of raw numbers by the chinese emerging upper middle class. (52:23–52:31)

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Asserts that the Chinese upper middle class outnumbers American working families.

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