[Fledermaus]

We'll have to get used to a world were this just doesn't happen here anymore.

No, you'll have to get used to the fact that more and more and more people around the world are going to be living in better run countries with democracy and the ability to learn and earn and turn their economies into viable formats to compete around the world.

Sorry if that fact frightens you and all the other "let's build a wall around the country" protectionists that see Wal-Mart as the doom of mankind.

Oliver Stone sounds more sane in comparison.

[ninenot]

Apparently you are attempting to join the Parasite DumbCluck crowd.

The argument here is NOT that other countries should not be democratic, or enjoy free enterprise.

The argument, if you actually can read, is that US businesses are NOT enjoying free enterprise--rather, that the chains placed on our exports by other countries, in combination with the predatory pricing techniques of certain foreign entities, and the willingness of Fortune 100 companies to co-operate with those 'predatory' States, has created a crisis.

Do you have a proposal, or only a few more names to call?

[Last Dakotan]

Sorry if that fact frightens you and all the other...

No, it doesn't frighten me, it is just the reality of how things will be. I mourn for my country. We used to be a place where great men created things and made companies. I proudly use a great number of products invented elsewhere. That's not the point.

By comparision we will look a lot like Mexico - a country which never developed a manufacturing base. Stratification between the very poor and the very rich, all natural resources shipped off to pay debts, and no new products being created to enrichen people's lives.