The working class should be fighting for government to break up the third world markets for labor. Only then will good paying labor jobs come back. Till then our working class will have to fight for scraps at the table. Why they blame the rich for this is no one's guess. It's their government who is in charge of breaking up monopolies. Not the evil rich who are funded through corporations by our very own 401k investments.
Our federal government has placed us among the most business hostile nations of the world. The only ones that are worse are those that have lost control to anarchists and warlords who prey upon the weak and some mostly European nations that have so regulated their individual worlds that their economies and societies have stagnated and are in slow but steady decay.
The more regulation, taxation, and government mandates the government puts on private enterprise, the more countries like India, South America, China, South Korea, etc. look like much more attractive environments in which to do business.
A government that protects and promotes unions that are in business for the union and doesn't give a damn about profits - a government that over regulates, comes up with more and more mandates, that increasingly punishes success and rewards incompetence and failure - is not likely to attract a lot of new opportunities for the people who will continue to suffer the consequences and won't have a lot of hope that things will turn around.
The regulations are ridiculous. Even more ridiculous is allowing goods to be produced in foreign lands and then sold here in competition with our own goods without having to be burdened by these same regulations. If we are allowed to compete on the same playing field we'll do just fine. If we have to compete with folks that work for pennies on the dollar and without any regulatory hindrance... we are screwed.
I don't see it quite that way though. I think if we make the home environment business friendly through fair taxation, taking off all the mandates and regulations that don't absolutely have to be there, and provide incentives for doing business here, and stop paying people not to work, I'm pretty sure the American work ethic would make doing business in America attractive again. It is no accident that the more government has meddled, the more of our jobs have gone away to other places. Yet we seem to have an elected body of leaders who can't figure that out. Or who don't care.