If Americans want to preserve their place in the world and standard of living of the past,they must first demand their corporations keep trade secrets and skills in US. Study the story of silk. If China ever dominates in the sciences and etc, that is the model China will preserve her power and society. The US lead the world in science and manufacturing till the greedy corporations decide to close the tech gap with China, India and Mexico by sending American technicians over to teach them how to do jobs Americans were doing. 1980 Chinese workers could not even decently solder circuit boards nor their factory managers had the skill to manage production. Then US corporate reps showed up set up schools and tech skill shops to teach the capable Chinese how to do it. Once the factory is set up we just close the ones in the US and dump the high paid workers onto the US taxpayers as unemployment. Did the price of the goods made in China drop in price. Nope. $ 300 Apple Smart phones, Chinese factory (not worker) gets $ .75. That means Apple execs pocket $ 299.25 for themselves and yet proclaim that the profit margins were too razor thin to have them built in the US or pay higher corporate taxes on their profits. It is a tough business they all scream and yet their HQ look like glass and modern metal palaces, with scifi looking cafeterias, offices, million dollar sculptures and art in lobbies, designer furniture, state of the art gyms and etc. Pat Buchanan is the only one that notices something is not right with the corporate narrative that they pay too much taxes and cannot afford to have US workers. Tea Party also notices something stinks with the corporate narrative. TP members are learning the traitorous nature of corporate America via the illegal immigration issue and more guest high tech workers while many American college grads cannot get jobs (because they are Americans) and others are losing it to Obamacare and offshore jobs. If the big gov and big corporation do not change, the people will rise up and change them. Opening battles are already underway between the screwed and corporate minions in left wing Oakland CA. Google (pro Dem corporation) buses can take over public bus stops. The poor (pro Dem voters) are slashing their tires and throwing rocks at them. Such arrogance is met by righteous violence. The main street Americans in the GOP and Dem are fighting with their party agents of corporate America faction because they are sick and tire of being screwed by them and forced to bailout their messes.
Good post. You are 100% correct.
A superior post. Thanks!!!
All true. Meanwhile, the runaway proliferation of law and regulation buries the small business person and stacks the deck against him in favor of big companies. Estate taxes force the sale of family farms to the benefit of big corporate farming.
The Democratic Party and Establishment Republicans are fully deserving of any horrible, painful, miserable demise that the American people can deliver on them.