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I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
Are globalized corporations unamerican?
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
Strange how those that tend to spout off the most about freedom are the corporate sycophants.
corporate freedom generally means less individual freedom.
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
Notice the economy collapsing. Notice America withering.I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
Corporations are not "unAmerican."
America doesn't owe corporations anything. America has to have a competitive and attractive environment to attract and retain corporations, who create jobs and are the engine of growth. Without corporations, the economy would collapse. Without a strong business community, America will wither. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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How much FREEDOM do you really have ON THE JOB if you work for a major corporation?
The answer, is ZERO.
You have exactly those rights your BOSS tells you you have.
Freedom on a job? How does this even apply to a job? You are effectively selling your time and effort to another for a consideration or a group of considerations. You need cash and the employer has the cash to give. If they want you to wear a uniform or report to a particular place at an appointed time, that is your part of the bargain.
You are free at any time to cease doing that and leave their employ.
What do you interpret as "Freedom" within a job?
On my job, I have a very wide range of freedom and I arrange my own schedule and negotiate with little or no guidance, but it is always for the benefit of the corporation. I am free to serve the needs of the corporation in a way that is most profitable to the corporation.
I do not see how this differs significantly from running my paper route at the age of 11. As long as I do the job in a manner that meets the expectations and standards of the employer, they leave me alone to do it.
Freedom on the job is not available unless you are the owner but then the paying customers become your boss and, again, you are in servitude. Employment by its defintion is servitude, but within capitalism, the fruit of that servitude allows the wherewithal to pursue individual happiness.
We are free to choose to be employed or to not be employed, but after that agreement is reached, we forfeit freedom for cash.
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
I wholeheartedly agree. The effects of globalization has been devastating to blue-collar America.
I was speaking with my boss the other day, we live in Georgia, about the new illegal immigration bill that is being legally challenged with several South American governments support. He pointed to the AJC's front page story on a shortage of agriculture workers, saying that isn't any American workers that would do that job. He is correct they wouldn't do those jobs for the current pay that has been artificially reduced by the availability of a cheap exploitable underclass.
I contend that it is this idea of globalization that drives Barack "Citizen of the World" Obama to do absolutely nothing about immigration policy. He recently stated that people that come to America by way of slave boat or the Rio Grand we are both equally American.
The globalization of corporate America is treasonous. I think it is Constitutional and essential to American workers that Congress requires American corporations to operate within the bounds of America, and increase tariffs on all imports. Call it isolationism, I call it returning to a proven economic strategy that gave rise to the modern world.
America needs to start leading again, unfortunately that won't be possible while we have a president that is gleefully presiding over its' decline.
I mean where do their loyalties lie?
Do they care if America goes down the tubes as long as their profits increase?
Same with those who play the global market.
Does America owe them any breaks or support?
Not necessarily.
The problem isn't that corporations have reach in many nations, the problem is that our governments (both here and abroad) are so easily manipulated by those enormously powerful organizations.
So as a consequence governments can be easily stampeded toward a race to the bottom of labor and citizens' rights when it comes to seeing to it that those corporations aren't taking advantage of their ability to move operations from one nation to the other.
I'm informed that one of the things happening in China right now is that corporations are demanding advantages or they'll move to Viet Nam.
Well I'm of the opinion that if we're going to liberate capital from national responsibilities and grant them the right to be international citizens, then we need an equally powerful interantional government to see to it that the corporations SERVE THE PUBLIC at the same time they are serving their stockholders.
If one truly wants international economy then we also need international government to regulate the corporations that will be the winners in that economy.
Getting the undue and pernicious influence of capital out of governments is a problem facing not just this nation but ALL nations.
Or we could just say, screw it! and just all sign on as serfs to whatever corporation we can cleave to.
THAT is what the neo-cons really want, ya know.
And end to reprentational governments replaced by a world wide oligarchy lead by the owers of corporations.
I can actually even craft a good damned argument for why that ought to be the way mankind ought to head itself, too.
My objection to this development is really not so much that nations will cease to matter, (nationalism is a meance to mankind really, now that we have the BOMB) but rather it is based on the notion that when there is no representational power given to the have-nots, the HAVES turn life into a totalitarian nighmare for people.
Most American people are just now beginning to feel the lash of capital's domination of government. (Most Black Americans probably already understand THAT problem instictively as they were once considered property)
If we allow this trned to continue things will truly only get much worse in terms of human freedom and dignity.
Freedom as you or I think we know it will end.
Doubt me?
How much FREEDOM do you really have ON THE JOB if you work for a major corporation?
The answer, is ZERO.
You have exactly those rights your BOSS tells you you have.
How would you define "unamerican"? Who's to say what is contrary to the interests of the American people?
Look guys, if a company has to outsource to stay profitable, would you rather they went out of business? Do you like paying higher prices if they do not outsource?
I think our gov't should do what they can to ensure a level international playing field, but we can't be subsidizing or giving tax breaks to anybody. I'd rather legislate exchange rates with specific foreign currencies if they won't play fair.
How would you define "unamerican"? Who's to say what is contrary to the interests of the American people?
Look guys, if a company has to outsource to stay profitable, would you rather they went out of business? Do you like paying higher prices if they do not outsource?
I think our gov't should do what they can to ensure a level international playing field, but we can't be subsidizing or giving tax breaks to anybody. I'd rather legislate exchange rates with specific foreign currencies if they won't play fair.