Capitalism seems to work best when there are government constraints to keep a balance between various factions...workers, owners, communities, etc. It seems that the problem is that the corporations have superceded the governments, globally, that maintained the balance.
The thing is, it isn't really the Dubai deal that's the problem. The Dubai deal is the one that finally struck a chord with the public. We only truly have a nation if infrastructure and points of entry are controlled by the US and US-owned and operated corporations.
Hear, hear.
We need trade reciprocity now.
I guess I see it differently. All these corporations that are taking jobs overseas, do you ever wonder why?
They have to make a profit, and there are too many regulations ( passed by greedy governments, and approved by greedy taxpayers who are hoping to get something for nothing); and excessive demands by unions.
Then if your company does have a great quarter (like Exxon), even if it's after 10 years of barely scraping by; the government passes a windfall profits tax and takes it.
Or, you get a group of greedy lawyers and politicians who go after your profits based on junk science like many tobacco industries; lumber companies and chemical companies.
Why should they stay ? Just to make money so that other people can use the power of government to steal it ?
I think most corporations have been exceedingly tolerant of the very anti-business climate here. We ought to be thanking them for the jobs that they do create in this climate, instead of further blaming them for having to obey the laws of economics.