[ex-snook]

Sorry. American companies should give priority to American citizens. If they want to be citizens on the world and maximize profits with the cheapest labor they can find anywhere, then American workers will consider government as an alternate supplier of jobs. Business wants to own all the jobs and require workers to limbo lower than the lowest in the world. Without a social concern for this country, they invite alternatives. They should balance patriotic interests and profit interests.

[LS]

The minute "American companies . . . give priority to American citizens," there won't be ANY American companies. Guess you don't get the free market. You must produce products that compete in price and quality, not which compete in nationality. Hitler tried a "German car for Germans," and NOT ONE SINGLE AVERAGE GERMAN bought it!! Meanwhile, the Ford, which was designed to be cheap yet solid, was truly the "people's car." Juan Trippe destroyed all the state-based airlines that were making "airplanes for their own citizens," and before you knew it they were all flying Pan Am.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "SOCIAL CONCERN." THAT IS LEFTIST COMMUNE-SPEAK. I only know of individual concerns, and my concern is to get the best product at the lowest price. If government gets out of the way, we will always make most of those products in America, but if government tries to "help" American workers, they will soon be unemployed.