I worked at IBM for some years and watched them gut the U.S. work force while creating tens of thousands of jobs in India.
Wall St. forces a focus on ‘the quarter’, which results in myopic corporations and CEO’s to lose anything resembling long-term vision. The impact on the country figures not a jot in their calculus....trust me. Zero. Nada.
Add to that the uncertainty within the business community due to the idiots in Washington, crushing taxes and bureaucratic regulations and “compliance”, moronic Socialists in government at the State and Federal levels, and a general dumbing down of our populace via an insipid public school/university system, you have a recipe not just for disaster, but for the end of a once-great societal experiment.
Corporate executives with zero loyalty to American workers. With these turds in charge we would have lost WW2. Of course they could care less about trade deficits.