[navyblue]

So what do you tell those AMERICANS--you know, folks like you--who just saw their retirement nest egg get nuked because you decided that companies owe more to the government than paying their taxes?

No Pooh, I don't think any company owes anything to the government. I do think it owes something to the society that was reponsible for creating the conditions that let them succeed. You know, your fellow Americans! It's called a social contract.

How can you expect any American fighting man to put himself in harms way to protect the interests of a company that will not even want to employ him? That is not the America I served!

[hedgetrimmer]

I don't think any company owes anything to the government

If they are a corporation they owe the govnerment their charter and the immunity from lawsuits it provides.

[Taliesan]

American soldiers do not put themselves in harms's way to protect the interests of a corporation.

[Poohbah]

No Pooh, I don't think any company owes anything to the government. I do think it owes something to the society that was reponsible for creating the conditions that let them succeed. You know, your fellow Americans! It's called a social contract.

Why is it that folks like you are quick to take credit for creating conditions where a company you had nothing to do with can succeed, but quickly disavow any responsibility for creating the conditions (asinine tort law, asinine levels of regulation and taxation, etc) that encouraged the company to leave?

How can you expect any American fighting man to put himself in harms way to protect the interests of a company that will not even want to employ him? That is not the America I served!

The America I served did not guarantee me a lifetime sinecure after my service.

In the meantime...America's stock market is cratered. Millions of Americans are suddenly unemployed, and forever unemployable. Tax revenues from those evil companies that outsourced are no more.

What do you propose to do to fix the crisis you created with this policy?